Warning to Thais: Allowing foreigners to use their names as nominees, beware of both imprisonment and fines, and asset seizure. Recently, the Criminal Court ordered punishment for 23 individuals and juristic persons in the Phuket area, found to have nominee behavior.
Today (7 July 2025), Mr. Anukul Prueksanusak, Deputy Government Spokesperson, revealed that the government is warning the public not to fall victim to unknowingly being tricked by foreigners into being nominees, which is illegal according to the statistics of the Department of Business Development, Ministry of Commerce, which found that each year the department has investigated businesses that are at risk of being nominees according to the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542, focusing on monitoring cases where Thais hold shares on behalf of foreigners or support foreign businesses in tourism and related businesses such as restaurants, hotels, resorts, real estate, and logistics, especially in Thai tourist provinces such as Phuket, Chonburi, Bangkok, and Chiang Mai. สล็อต เว็บตรง