British Woman Arrested in Thailand Over Passport Forgery

[Edge]

British Woman Arrested in Thailand Over Passport Forgery

 

A 21-year-old British national has been arrested attempting to leave the Kingdom of Thailand, after Immigration police had become aware that she was travelling on a forged or suspected fake passport.

 

 

Bangkok, the 27th of April 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 11:00am on Tuesday, police Major General Witsanu Prasartthong O-Sot (Deputy Commission of the Immigration Police) along with the Superintendent of the Crime Suppression Division, successfully apprehend British national Miss. Katherine Anne Neville-Gliddon [21]. Miss. Neville-Gliddon was suspected of travelling into the Kingdom on a fraudulent passport.

 

The joint taskforce pounced on Miss Neville-Gliddon whilst she was waiting at the international departure terminal in Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport. A check of the suspect’s passport revealed several irregularities with the document, leading police to immediately arrest and detain her from leaving the country. Miss Neville-Gliddon was due to board a flight to Dubai on Emirates Airline flight EK 373.

 

According to police, Miss Neville-Gliddon had faked several Royal Thai Immigration stamps in her passport and had used or is part of an illegal document fraud organisation. Several entry and departure stamps were found to be fakes, with both errors in the name of the airport printed on the stamp and the size of the insignia. Miss Neville-Gliddon’s passport spelt the Bangkok Airport as SUVARNABHUM as opposed to SUVARNABHUMI, missing the I at the end. Along with the incorrect size of the stamp, police were able to arrest and detain Miss Neville-Gliddon for further questioning.

 

Miss Neville-Gliddon has since admitted to using the fraudulent document; however information regarding the forgery, such as its origin, has not been divulged to the media at present. In addition to Miss Neville-Gliddon’s case Thai immigration officers also rejected 20 Indian nationals from entering the Kingdom on Tuesday, after they could not provide suitable evidence of financial means to support their stay in the country or subsequently any proof of a pre-arranged location to reside at whilst visiting Thailand.

Note: Passport forgery and counterfeiting is nothing new to Thailand or the surrounding regions, with thousands of confiscations occurring each year. Black market passports are most commonly used by international criminals, fugitives or terrorists, however; some people have been apprehended in possession of fraudulent documents for relatively minor infringements such as Visa overstays. During 2008 and 2009 Thai Immigration officers seized over 30,000 fraudulent passports, 20,000 of which were confiscated from an organised counterfeiting ring consisting of Thai, Indonesian and Burmese nationals.

[leeds]

looking like she overstayed and tryed to forge her visa stamp

[kuffki]

looking like she overstayed and tryed to forge her visa stamp

 

Yeah, this is what it is.

But i do not believe she did it herself.

I know there use to be "visa run" company's that offered this kind of service.

Some offered just the stamps and others offered the service where you do not have to go, they do it for you, ie go to the border to do the run, but instead just did the stamps.

 

I think she was just a victim of one of these.

 

Saying that,do they really check the spelling? or were they tipped off?

[blueboy0510]

these people must think the thais are daft, why do it....nutters

[T-T-T]

Doesn't her Dad "Dudley Nevill-Gliddon" own the SPAM WORD hotel on PattayaLand Soi2? If so she has been living in thailand most of her life I think?

[johnnyh]

Yeah, this is what it is.

But i do not believe she did it herself.

I know there use to be "visa run" company's that offered this kind of service.

Some offered just the stamps and others offered the service where you do not have to go, they do it for you, ie go to the border to do the run, but instead just did the stamps.

 

I think she was just a victim of one of these.

 

Saying that,do they really check the spelling? or were they tipped off?

 

the new computer system catches you out now if you over stay. but sure there ways around this if you know the right people in the imigration deptment. guess she didnt.

[Edge]

the new computer system catches you out now if you over stay. but sure there ways around this if you know the right people in the imigration deptment. guess she didnt.

 

I believe the new computer system is quite good, but I found the following interesting:-

 

My Passport was lost/stolen and, of course, my Departure Card.

I got a new Passport OK and went to Jomtien to get my Visa stamps put in it.

I had copies of my Visa stamps (good idea) and I took copies of my last flight details into the Kingdom, but they weren't interested in the latter.

All sorted, I was leaving, when I asked the helpful farang how they would verify my entry details at the border.

"Oh, you cannot leave Thailand by a land crossing as they don't have access to the Database. You can only leave by BKK Airport" he said.

"Oh," says I "thanks for that, but can't you verify it here, as I want to leave by land?".

"Sorry no," says he "because we don't have access to the Database here either".

 

Buddha help us if they ever connect all those cables and switches.

[Benny10]

Isn’t this the same person who was just recently caught with a faked driver’s license.

 

Local authorities figured quickly out that the picture in the document didn’t match with her identity.

 

[bigaallaann]

I guess this is what happens when your to lazy to do things yourself.I would rather do things 100% things the correct way and make sure my visa was always up to date.The woman should have gone to Thai Immigration herself and know she was legally in the country at all times.Whats a few hours of your time to do such things needed? Now I assume she will spend time in prison or be deprted..Sad situation for her.

Rule is NEVER use a fixer to do things for you,promise this or that and you end up in a world of shit.