False records, genuine documents

A government document may be genuine, even when the information used to obtain it is false. Across Thailand, investigators have uncovered alleged schemes involving forged registrations, fake paternity, dormant identities and unlawfully issued pink or zero-status cards.

📌Inside the networks exploiting Thailand’s identity system

📌How Thailand’s civil registry became a target for fraud

📌Thailand’s identity-laundering cases expose registry risks

The Disclosed follows the trail through Thailand’s civil-registration system and asks who benefits, who enables these schemes and why authorities are reviewing records going back as far as 10 years.