Chinese culprit nabbed by Thai police

BANGKOK, November 27 (TNA) - Police has arrested a Chinese man who held a fake Thai identity card (ID) to run a “zero-Dollar tour” in Thailand. Police Major General Chaiwat Chantaworalak, Deputy Commissioner of the Provincial Police, Region 6, told journalists on November 26, in his capacity as the head of investigators of the case, that his team is tracking down other culprits for prosecution. Police Major General Chaiwat said the arrested man, identified as Lian Kao, is a Chinese national who had held a fake Thai ID to run the “zero-Dollar tour” business and was nabbed in Bangkok's Din Daeng area. According to the senior police officer, the Chinese culprit held the fake Thai ID in the name of Visanu Ratanasang-ngam, a native of Nakhon Sawan Province in the Lower Thai North for more than seven years since 2001, depriving the right of Visanu to hold his own ID card. A "zero-dollar or kickback tour" is a business in which tourists are offered tour packages at lower prices than the real costs but they are later overcharged through shopping or services at shops in their tour operators' networks, or they come to Thailand on tourist visa but staying to run business illegally under a fraudulent registration, threatening national security. (TNA)