Police have arrested three foreigners — from Canada, Russia and Myanmar — on the southern tourist islands of Koh Phangan and Phuket for working illegally.
Canadian Gabriel Vachon, 46, was arrested on Monday afternoon at the Two Rocks hotel on Koh Phangan, where police seized kitesurfing equipment including a kite and a board worth about 200,000 baht.
He told police that he charged students 1,500 baht per hour for kitesurfing lessons but did not have the relevant licence.
At 8.20pm the same day, police arrested Russian Georgii Batalov, 33, at the Eywa Bar in the Panthip market on the island in Surat Thani province. He admitted he was operating the bar without a licence and was staying in the country on a tourist visa.
The previous day in Phuket, police arrested a 34-year-old woman from Myanmar in tambon Choeng Thale of Thalang district for illegally driving a private taxi. She was caught at a checkpoint on Sri Sunthon Road in front of the Choeng Thale police station at 8.40am.
Police and provincial administration officials raid the Russian-run Eywa Bar on Koh Phangan on Monday night. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)
A woman from Myanmar was arrested for illegally driving a private taxi in Phuket on Sunday. (Police photo)