Six foreign nationals - four Pakistanis, one Italian and one Russian - were arrested in three separate cases during the past week, the Immigration Bureau said on Thursday.
In the first case, four Pakistani men were arrested in a raid on an apartment in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district.
The raid followed a report that a group of men from Pakistan had provided fake visas for foreigners who wanted to travel to the Schengen Area of 27 European countries. The immigration police sent an undercover agent to contact the group for a visa. He later took the passport stamped with a Schengen visa back from the group after paying them 7,000 Euros (about 267,000 baht).
The immigration police took the passport to the Italian embassy, which confirmed the visa was fake. This led to a raid on an apartment in Soi Lat Phrao 148 where the four suspects were arrested.
In the second case an Italian man was arrested at a condominium in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district.
The arrest was made after the Interpol office in Rome asked the police to arrest and repatriate him to Italy for legal action. The man was wanted for robbery.
In the third case a Russian national was caught by police at a border checkpoint in Satun province, while he was leaving for Malaysia. He was found to have overstayed his visa.
A check with the Immigration Bureau database revealed the man was wanted by Interpol.
The man was a member of a criminal gang which operated illegal electronic money transactions in Moscow.
