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A Chinese national was nabbed in Bangkok on Thursday for using an illegally obtained Thai national ID card.

An immigration official has been transferred from his post after allegedly demanding a monthly fee from an immigrant in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district.

Immigration Division 6 set up a committee on Wednesday to investigate the case of an officer asking for a monthly fee from an immigrant in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district.

The Immigration Bureau on Tuesday denied that one of its staff, whose name appeared at the bottom of a so-called government watchlist leaked online this week, was involved with the document.

Immigration police raided an illegal online gambling operation at Bangkok’s Royal City Avenue on Friday, arresting 13 people including its Chinese and Thai masterminds.

Immigration chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang on Tuesday announced the arrest of three Chinese nationals who illegally entered Thailand and were allegedly running a phishing operation to acquire personal data and one-time passwords (OTP) from victims and use the passwords to withdraw money from their victims’ bank accounts.

A Philippine national, Liny Paengkusan Camaono, 30, and a Thai, Thanyares Saiyanoi, 22, were arrested for running a company that allegedly scammed people into investing in a loan business from an office in Bangkok’s Asoke area, Immigration chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang said on Wednesday.

Three of six suspects who allegedly engaged in extortion by impersonating Immigration Police in Rayong have been arrested.

Immigration Police is suing a Twitter user for falsely claiming that foreigners are allowed to enter Thailand via Suvarnabhumi Airport without having to undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine.

Biometrics has helped Immigration Police finally apprehend a Thai woman who’d evaded jail for a decade for conning three of her countrywomen into forced prostitution in Italy.

Three foreign trainers at a fitness centre reportedly belonging to Thai sexy model Chalomejit "Looktarn" Junkate in Bangkok's Thong Lor area were arrested for allegedly working without permission, Immigration Police Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingdoung told a press conference on Wednesday.

Police have arrested a Samut Prakan woman on human-trafficking charges and a 51-year-old homeless man on rape charges, Immigration Police Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingdoung told the press on August 19.