Overstaying Swede – 1,001 days – no match for Big Oud’s “Smart Car”

Ubon Ratchathani immigration police deployed their SPC (Smart Patrol Car) and it came up trumps. 

The onboard biometrics technology was used to check a Swedish man’s passport outside a rented house in Moo 2, Khom Jiam district of the north eastern Thai city.

Per-Olof, 65, was found to be on overstay of 1,001 days. 

He had arrived in Thailand in January 2017 and been granted 30 days stay on a tourist visa. 

Since then he had stayed in a variety of places but never left the kingdom.

Immigration chief Lt-Gen Sompong “Big Oud” Chingduang presented the case at a press briefing yesterday. 

Naew Na said that the Swede was picked up on November 19th at 7 pm. 

A vinyl board hailed the part played in the arrest by the biometrics aboard the Smart Patrol Car. 

Thai Visa / Naew Na

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