A Chinese fugitive wanted in his home country in connection with a major scam operation was arrested on Tuesday evening at Suvarnabhumi airport as he was about to leave Thailand using a fake Mexican passport.
The suspect, identified only as Huang, 44, had a Thailand Privilege Visa that was still valid, but he was using a Mexican passport under the name Gol, police said on Wednesday. They did not say where he was travelling to.
After a check of his records, police found he was using the Mexican passport as he was named in an Interpol Red Notice as a key figure in a Chinese scam network.
The investigation revealed that Mr Huang fled China in 2020 through a natural border crossing in Yunnan province and entered Myanmar.
Between 2022 and 2024, police say, he engaged with a criminal network to set up a scam operation in the New Taichang Park complex, located in Myawaddy, opposite Tak province of Thailand.
The gang created a fake investment platform and promoted it on social media to lure victims by posing as “a wealthy single businessman”, police said.
Investigators in China said the gang caused over 500 Chinese victims to lose about 200 million yuan, or 1 billion baht.
