It is not like we actually get involved in our Clients problems, it is more by association - we help clients translate documents, todays case was one of a Police Report.
A simple case of fraud, but why would someone go to all the trouble to report a fraud of a blank, pirated DVD?
Would you not, by doing so, implicate yourself in a crime?
It beggars belief what some people do when they get on their righteous high horse, "It is a matter of principle" they would most likely claim. What hypocrites they then would be, did they not comprehend that they too participated directly in a crime... should the copyright owner not then come seeking restitution too?
But this is Thailand.... lets take a case in point which occurred sometime in late 2008.
It starts with a Thai gentleman, lets call him 'Somchai', reporting in to his local Police Station claiming that he had been defrauded by another Thai gentleman. The fraud was that Somchai had purchased for 20,000 baht a US $100 Dollar printing machine... you guessed it, it would print Fake $100 US Dollar bills. - But after waiting for a week and paying the extra 10,000 baht for the special paper and ink, the machine never printed a thing!
So of go the local Boys in Brown (Thai Police wear very tight fitting brown uniforms here in Thailand) and arrest the fraudster who was made to very quickly confess to his crime.
But wait, what is it that you are asking, what of Somchai who had every intent to commit a crime, by counterfeiting US $100 bills? Well nothing happened to him, he had the intent but did not break any crime as such... well then this is Thailand!
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