Two men caught at Phuket Airport with fake passports have escaped from police custody

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Two men caught at Phuket Airport with fake passports have escaped from police custody 

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

 

PHUKET: Police are hunting for two men who were apprehended using fake Portuguese passports at Phuket International Airport but later escaped police custody.

 

At 10:48 am today (May 20) Mr Siriphong Leeprasit Thalang district chief (Palad) had publicised the two suspects faces after they escaped from Sakoo Police Station in Thalang. He also asked anyone who saw the men to contact police.

 

Sakoo Police Chief Col Jirasak Seamsak revealed to The Phuket News that, “It is true that there are two men who presented false Portuguese passports in the name of Mr Sandeep Singn, 30, and Mr Raj Kumar, 35.

 

"The fake passports were spotted by Phuket Airport immigration officers in the early morning. They were taken to Sakoo Police Station for questioning at 5am," he added.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/two-men-caught-at-phuket-airport-with-fake-passports-have-escaped-from-police-custody-62234.php#4YZ2CpIk4OWcqQWO.97

 

 

 

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[tomwct]

Oops! I <deleted> up!

[darksidedog]

So the cops let them wander outside the police station, unmonitored to go for a smoke? And then expressed surprise when they did a runner?

So, was this typical Thailand stupidity and incompetence, or was a wad of cash involved??

[tracker1]

So they have already managed to arrive and depart Thailand previously and only got caught out by Korean authorities who sent them back to Thailand hmmm

[Dobredin Ghusputin]

I'd stakeout all the EU embassies on Khaosarn Road, where they probably are waiting for one of the consuls to issue their new passports.

[Tony M]

"The fake passports were spotted by Phuket Airport immigration officers in the early morning."    I suspect that it was the fact that Korea Immigration had sent them back, with a letter saying that they had come from Thailand with fake passports that aroused the suspicion of Thai Immigration in Phuket.  That series of Portuguese passports hasn't been issued since 2006, I think !  

[Wilsonandson]

With bombs going off in Supermarkets who cares who gets into Thailand on a fake passport. (Sarcasm)

 

Very worrying!

 

[worgeordie]

The police turned their backs,and they were off like Whippets.

regards Worgeordie

[Dexlowe]

Thai immigration officials failed to spot the fake passports. Dereliction of duty. Upon their forced return to Phuket, the pair were not treated as criminals nor international suspects. Criminal dereliction of duty. The pair were not confined in a high security police station as you'd expect, but taken to a half-completed shed. Insane dereliction of duty. Allowed to go, unescorted, to the toilet and for a smoke. Simply bizarre. Incapable of catching two distinct looking characters when they fled. Deeply suspicious.

 

I hope international police forces, especially those in countries hit by Islamist terror attacks, issue condemnation of the ridiculous RTP. Prayut as well, as this reflects on his own incompetence in not moving to clean up this disgraceful organization.

[ezzra]

Bothe passports numbers are off by 2 from each other and the signatures are

done in similar hand writings... with subcontinent looking guys with Portuguese

passports... well, is that the best those forgers could come up with?...

[Dexlowe]

4 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Bothe passports numbers are off by 2 from each other and the signatures are

done in similar hand writings... with subcontinent looking guys with Portuguese

passports... well, is that the best those forgers could come up with?...

You're right. There is a distinct similarity in the signatures, as if one was written in a forward motion and the other backward. Not very ingenuous. 

[Tony M]

33 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Bothe passports numbers are off by 2 from each other and the signatures are

done in similar hand writings... with subcontinent looking guys with Portuguese

passports... well, is that the best those forgers could come up with?...

There are several errors on the page, all easily spotted with the naked eye.  That is, if the person checking the passport knows what they are doing. It would seem that, maybe, the Thai Immigration Officers don't know what they are supposed to be looking for.  

[colinneil]

How much money you got?

OK enough, i go pee, you 2 leg it, ok.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Elfin]

13 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Those same police officers subsequently supported the Thai drug dealer who invaded my little hotel last year and insisted that I leave my property and hand the keys to the drug dealer.

What was the outcome of this Simon 43?

[jimstar1]

Love those brown Envelopes now where will we put our Bomb

[Trentham]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Bothe passports numbers are off by 2 from each other and the signatures are

done in similar hand writings... with subcontinent looking guys with Portuguese

passports... well, is that the best those forgers could come up with?...

Does that mean that number E97276971 was not even picked up???

[Briggsy]

Human trafficking is big business, particularly in Southern Thailand, one of the world's hubs. Phuket cops are notoriously corrupt. Put the two together and you can be sure this was not an "escape" in the normal sense of the word.

[docshock13]

3 hours ago, tracker1 said:

So they have already managed to arrive and depart Thailand previously and only got caught out by Korean authorities who sent them back to Thailand hmmm

Don't you remember? It is all part of the RTPs "strategic incompetence" campaign touted last after the explosion in Bangkok. 

[YetAnother]

if possible, further tarnishing the reputation of thai police

[TheFishman1]

You think they look like there from the Middle East and how much cash does it take for the cops to look the other way TIT

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Neither of them look even remotely Punjabi. Arab criminals/terrorists I'd reckon. But this story seems off. How could Korea let them go having identified fake passports? Big no no putting them on a plane not knowing identity.

 

They should have been held in detention until their real identity was determined.

 

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, Tony M said:

There are several errors on the page, all easily spotted with the naked eye.  That is, if the person checking the passport knows what they are doing. It would seem that, maybe, the Thai Immigration Officers don't know what they are supposed to be looking for.  

seems odd that professional immigration officers cant tell fake passports

[chuang]

The two must paid a hefty sum to use the toilets....

[Tony M]

7 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

seems odd that professional immigration officers cant tell fake passports

 

It seems that they require some (more) training. Not much point in having an immigration control if the officers can't identify forged or counterfeit passports, possibly being used by terrorists, criminals, people traffickers, illegal immigrants, etc.

 

[balo]

They look more like Indians to me and not Islamic terrorists . Probably just been running illegal business in Thailand.  Still lousy job by Phuket officials. 

[Docno]

4 minutes ago, balo said:

They look more like Indians to me and not Islamic terrorists . Probably just been running illegal business in Thailand.  Still lousy job by Phuket officials. 

You're able to tell the difference between Indians and Pakistanis?

[gk10002000]

32 minutes ago, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

Neither of them look even remotely Punjabi. Arab criminals/terrorists I'd reckon. But this story seems off. How could Korea let them go having identified fake passports? Big no no putting them on a plane not knowing identity.

 

They should have been held in detention until their real identity was determined.

 

I watched a video on youtube of that Australian border patrol tv show.  One episode they caught some people with fake passports and put them back on the plane.  They basically seemed to not want to deal with the problem, an investigation, etc.

[Juan B Tong]

Sandeep and Kumar do Thailand.  

[Gracas]

“Police in the area have been directed to intercept them but have so far been unsuccessful. Every police station has been informed about the men."
 

What's the point of looking for them, they can't keep them even when they have them under lock and key. UNLESS there is still another payment to be made.

[Tony M]

3 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

I watched a video on youtube of that Australian border patrol tv show.  One episode they caught some people with fake passports and put them back on the plane.  They basically seemed to not want to deal with the problem, an investigation, etc.

 

They have a choice of what they want to do with them. If they decide to try to find out their true identity, and cannot, what do they do then ?   Where are they going to send them to ?  They become "refugees", and the country can't get rid of them.  There is an international convention, the Chicago Convention, that says that if a passenger arrives with fake, falsified, forged, etc documents, then the last country that had accepted them must accept them back.  The country they have pitched up in finds, more often than not, that it is better to get rid of them, back to where they came from, than get stuck with them.   The Convention says that they can be returned from whence they came on a "Chicago Convention letter"), but many countries will not accept the passengers back without the passport they traveled on.