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BANGKOK – A former Singapore embassy staff was sentenced on Friday (May 8) to 114 months in prison by a Thai court after being convicted of 38 counts of forgery.
David Han, 26, was found with falsified employment documents, pay stubs, and certificates from universities in Thailand and abroad after he was arrested by Thai police on Tuesday (May 5) in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
Don Mueang Kwaeng’s court on Friday also fined him 190,000 baht (S $ 8,333) and suspended his prison sentence.
As of Friday night, he was detained at the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center awaiting deportation. You will be blacklisted upon entering Thailand.
Thai police say Han had submitted a forged letter from the Singapore defense attaché, among other documents.
“We are still investigating whether he worked with other people despite confessing to doing it alone,” Police General Piti Nitinonthaset, superintendent of Division 1 of the Immigration Office, told The Straits Times before Han was convicted.
“We found many suspicious items, such as a visa sticker that could be made in your country. We are now working with the Singapore police to obtain more information,” added Major General Piti.
The Immigration Office said Han worked in the defense attaché’s office at the Singapore embassy in Bangkok from 2013 to 2014.
Between 2015 and this year, she applied to extend her 90-day visa 19 times, and also opened a bank account and applied for credit cards.
“The documents he presented to officials were mixed with genuine documents, and that made it difficult to detect the forgeries,” Maj. Gen. Piti said.
Han was arrested Tuesday at a hotel in Chiang Rai, where local police said his girlfriend was studying.
Thai media reported that he had accumulated 700,000 baht in credit card debt.
In response to questions from The Straits Times, the Singapore Foreign Ministry said: “The Foreign Office is aware of the incident and is providing consular assistance to the Singaporean.
“The case is being handled in accordance with local Thai laws.”
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