Undocumented women arrested for pretending to be beggars in Bangkok
Police say they deliberately dressed like beggars to receive charity
Thai Immigration Police on Thursday said they had arrested three Cambodian women, who allegedly had entered the kingdom illegally, while they were begging on Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Road.
Police said they had received a tip-off about foreign beggars wandering in the Nana area, from Sukhumvit Soi 4 to 11, an area popular with foreign tourists.
After patrolling the area on Thursday night, police arrested the three Cambodian women who failed to provide immigration documents. They were identified as Chanthana, 43, Dao, 38, and Wakim, 19.
The women had deliberately dressed in dirty clothes to look like typical beggars, the police said. However, when checking the mobile phone of one of the suspects, police found photos of her in normal clothes posing at various locations in Bangkok.
Police believed that the trio were only pretending to be beggars at night to scam donations out of passersby in Bangkok’s buzzing night spot.
The three women were charged with entering the kingdom illegally and begging.
