Vitaly Kulyushin at the annual general of the Thai-Russian Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting in April 2015. Original image: Thai-Russian Chamber of Commerce / Facebook

BANGKOK — Police have arrested a Russian in Chonburi on Thursday for allegedly forging hundreds of visas to Thailand.

Vitaly Garyevich Kulyushin was taken into custody by officers from the Technology Crime Suppression Division and accused of selling forged Thai visas to Russians, Maj. Gen. Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn announced Thursday.

Kulyushin was the consul at the Royal Thai Honorary Consulate in Vladivostok from 2011 to 2014, police said. He was suspended from his job after Thailand’s Foreign Affairs Ministry complained of his misconduct in 2014. He was later discharged from his post in 2016.

Though his right to use the official consular stamp was revoked, Kulyushin did not surrender it despite a warning that year to do so.

Thai immigration found irregularities in the visas issued by Vladivostok when he was there. In 2014, they found two Russians with one-year, multiple-entry visas that had been sent by mail through a Cambodian travel company and a middleman in Kuala Lumpur.

Since last year, 60-year-old Kulyushin was advertising on a now defunct website that he could issue Thai visas and stamp documents for RUB5,400 (2,700 baht). Police said he’s sold more than 100 visas amounting to roughly 400,000 baht alone this year.

He is charged with forging international government documents, fraud and violating the Computer Crime Act.

Both Thais and Russians can travel visa-free to each other’s countries for 30 days.

Suspect giving his best “snake face” impression?

AYUTTHAYA:

A suspected drug dealer fooled a cop into looking for a nonexistent snake in his cell before locking him up and dashing out for a brief moment of freedom early this morning, police said Tuesday.

And yes, the whole thing was captured on camera.

In what looks like a scene from a prison break thriller – or farcical comedy – Anan Komolwanich managed to not only escape his cell at Ayutthaya’s Sena Police Station, but also elude capture for six hours.

It all started when 23-year-old Anan, who was in a holding cell for alleged drug dealing, shouted at about 9.30pm that there was a snake in his cell. The guard on duty, Sgt. Ratchada Supawong, went to check but found nothing.

Reports said Anan repeated the false alarm thrice more. As Ratchada made a fourth inspection, Anan grabbed the key from him, bolted out of his holding cell and locked the guard inside. He then ran into a wooded area which police began to search.

He was captured toward 3am, hiding about a kilometer from the station. Col. Wasuthep said Anan faces an additional charge of escaping custody.

The officer in charge of the station said the guard would be punished for breaching safety protocols.

“This is a disciplinary violation. It’s very clear. There must be punishment,” Col. Wasuthep Kongklom said in an interview. “However, because it took little time to capture the suspect, there might be some grounds to lessen the penalty. But there will definitely be punishment.”

The police colonel said standard protocols state that a guard should not enter the jail unless he first makes sure the suspect cannot flee.

He also acknowledged that there have been other recent escapes involving human error.

Wasuthep cited an incident in Suphan Buri province six months ago in which a suspect managed to saw the bars off his cell window with a tool his wife slipped to him in a lunch box.

“The problem isn’t our equipment. The problem is humans failing to follow procedures,” the station chief said.

Source: Khaosod English: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2018/11/20/suspect-cries-snake-locks-cop-in-cell-and-runs-video/

The husband suspected of pouring acid on his wife’s face and into her mouth has been arrested by police in Nakhon Sawan province.  The story initially made headlines due to the tragic circumstance of the victim having been shuttled from a private hospital to a public one without proper evaluation by the private hospital staff.  The patient died en route and the resulting public outcry has been a major headline.  More below from Bangkok Post.

Police arrested a 50-year-old man late on Sunday on suspicion of killing his new wife by pouring acid over her face and into her mouth.

She died after allegedly being denied treatment at a private hospital in Bangkok.

Kamtan Singhanat was arrested at a friend’s house in Nakhon Sawan province on Sunday night and taken to Tha Kham police station in Bangkok.

Police were to stage a crime re-enactment later on Monday.

Mr Kamtam had only recently married the 38-year-old victim, Chorlada Tarawan. He is accused of pouring acid into her mouth and on her face on Saturday in a fit of jealousy.

The woman’s 12-year-old daughter rushed her by taxi for treatment, directing the driver to Bangmod Hospital in Chom Thong district. The driver instead took them to Praram 2 Hospital, a private hospital in Bang Khun Thien district, saying it was much closer and her condition was clearly dire.

Staff at Praram 2 Hospital later called a taxi to take the victim and her daughter to Bangmod Hospital. Chorlada reportedly died on the way.

Activist lawyer Atchariya Rueangratanapong accompanied two of the dead woman’s angry relatives to Praram 2 Hospital on Sunday, where they accused the hospital of failing to help her.

He said Praram 2 Hospital failed to have a doctor diagnose whether the case was critical or not, leading it to the move to have Chorlada transferred to another hospital.

“I think the diagnosis should have been made by a doctor, not a nurse. We want this case thoroughly investigated,” he said.

The hospital management reportedly said the patient wanted treatment at Bang Mod Hospital, where she had medical welfare coverage.

Staff at Praram 2 Hospital applied first aid and decided her condition was not critical. A nurse gave the daughter 40 baht to pay for a taxi.

Dr Nattavuth Prasersiripong, secretary-general of the Department of Health Service Support is launching an investigation to find out why Praram 2 Hospital failed to treat the woman properly.

“We will look into when and how the hospital provided treatment for the woman. Regarding the hospital’s claim it deferred to the woman’s request to go to another hospital, we must look into whether the hospital provided appropriate transportation,” Dr Nattavuth told reporters.

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