Over in Samut Sakhon, Thai police finally caught up with a Chinese fugitive who had been living on the lam there for nearly ten years.
When officers raided his place, the man was holding a Myanmar passport under the name Mr. Myo. According to investigators back home, he is wanted for high-level corruption. After fleeing China a decade ago, he managed to set up three local companies with a registered capital of hundreds of millions of baht, using Thai taxi drivers as nominees to hold shares. He also bought up a massive plot of land, pushing his total local assets to a cool 600 million baht.
The guy clearly knew how to work the system. He originally carried a Chinese passport before somehow picking up a Myanmar identity. He even tried to pass the lifestyle down to his 19-year-old son, who got caught using the birth certificate of a dead person to scam his way into Thai citizenship.
Both father and son are now locked up for questioning, with police taking DNA samples and combing through land deeds and corporate paperwork to trace a massive trail of laundered money.
Stories like this just make locals shake their heads over their iced coffees. These days, plenty of foreigners think that setting up nominee companies and swapping identities is enough to wipe the slate clean and live like kings. But if your foundation is dirty, no matter how long you hide, your tail is bound to show eventually.
