The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has ordered an additional permanent employee to be suspended from duty. The employee was found to have colluded with an agent, facilitating the registration of foreigners in a red-light district apartment, which is owned by a relative, and assisting in the coordination of documents for relocation within the red-light district area to obtain pink cards. This was revealed on August 20, 2026, at the BMA headquarters by Pol. Gen. Adisorn Ngamjitsuksri, an advisor to the Bangkok governor, who discussed the progress of the “Clean Up Bangkok” operation, which targets individuals involved in the issuance of pink cards to foreigners in the red-light district.The director of the red-light district district office has ordered an additional permanent BMA employee to be suspended from duty, effective from August 19, 2026. This employee was found to have colluded with an agent, facilitating the registration of foreigners in an apartment in the red-light district, which is owned by a relative, and assisting in the coordination of documents for relocation within the red-light district area to obtain pink cards. The police have charged this employee with aiding and abetting a public official in the performance of their duties, providing false evidence for registration, and entering false data into a computer system.Pol. Gen. Adisorn further stated that this suspension is an extension of previous actions, where three registration department officials were suspended on August 18, 2026, for similar offenses. All three have been charged by the police with dereliction of duty, certifying false documents, and entering false data into a computer system.
BKK fires official over foreigner registration fraud
