BANGKOK, Nov 29 (TNA) – Four Chinese beggars faking
disabilities have been exposed while netting over thousands of baht a day from
kind-hearted people in Bangkok.
Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang, Immigration Bureau chief,
said the four Chinese nationals from Hubei province had travelled to soliciting
money on streets in Malaysia and Vietnam as well.
One of them, a 61-year-old man named Tan, was arrested while
begging money from people in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit area and holding a sign
reading “his wife was seriously ill.”
“When police tried to talk to him he pretended to be
deaf. But we brought an interpreter in,
he was forced to confess,” said the police officer.
Police later searched his hotel room near Hua Lamphong train
station to find three other gang members drinking beer and playing card game.
Their entry permits have been revoked and police are
charging them with illegal begging.(TNA)
