08 Jan 2013
At least 20 illegal massage parlors
run by Russians in the popular tourist resort in Phuket, Thailand were
shuttered by Thai police this week, newspaper reports said.
The Phuket Wan newspaper said that PHUKET: Police have closed down five massage shops in the Kata Karon region in response to claims that they are being operated by Russians without appropriate permits.
The latest closure came yesterday about 7.30pm when a massage parlor shop house with a Cyrillic alphabet name similar to Macca Gjiibix was raided in the Kata Centre.
Jamruan Lantan, chairman of the Thai Massage Group, Kata Karon, accompanied police on the raid. A Thai nominee for the company could not produce appropriate permits.
The shop house contained a souvenir shop on the ground floor.
A meeting was told on Friday that Russians controlled about 20 massage shops in the kata Karon district. The meeting followed a blockade of the local police station the previous evening.
Taxi and tuk-tuk drivers blockaded the beach road and demanded that officials stop Russian operators from taking their customers.
At a meeting today at the Kata Karon administrative offices, Vice Governor Jamleran Tipayapongtada said locals anywhere on Phuket should call police if they detected an illegal business operation.
He said he would respond with a team from the Phuket tax office, Immigration, the Labor Office, and the Department of Business Development as well as police.
The Phuket Wan newspaper said that PHUKET: Police have closed down five massage shops in the Kata Karon region in response to claims that they are being operated by Russians without appropriate permits.
The latest closure came yesterday about 7.30pm when a massage parlor shop house with a Cyrillic alphabet name similar to Macca Gjiibix was raided in the Kata Centre.
Jamruan Lantan, chairman of the Thai Massage Group, Kata Karon, accompanied police on the raid. A Thai nominee for the company could not produce appropriate permits.
The shop house contained a souvenir shop on the ground floor.
A meeting was told on Friday that Russians controlled about 20 massage shops in the kata Karon district. The meeting followed a blockade of the local police station the previous evening.
Taxi and tuk-tuk drivers blockaded the beach road and demanded that officials stop Russian operators from taking their customers.
At a meeting today at the Kata Karon administrative offices, Vice Governor Jamleran Tipayapongtada said locals anywhere on Phuket should call police if they detected an illegal business operation.
He said he would respond with a team from the Phuket tax office, Immigration, the Labor Office, and the Department of Business Development as well as police.
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