A falsified thing is bad in nature. It may benefit the offender but it injures others, particularly the innocent one. At a time a number of uneducated labors from Bangladesh were arrested in Thailand for holding fake passports. They were prosecuted and detained during judicial process. Knowing it, I stepped in to help them because I thought they did not know of the forgery. The court handed them over to their consular to send them back home. Though they were freed in the end, they suffered a lot of injuries. One could not walk while others suffered bad health. So every foreigner is advised to be careful of everything, particularly travel documents because forgery of a document under Thai law can be done in any manner likely to injure others or the public. It may be the fabrication of the whole document or part of it, adding a false word to it, taking out of it a word or phrase, such as erasing a figure out of the document or put a false signature or a false stamp on it, etc., can be forgery. You may not forge it, but if you use the forged document knowingly. You can be in jail like the person forging it, i.e., imprisonment not more than three years for ordinary document and five years for a document of right like a false power of attorney, or an official document like a false passport. And if the document is a very important one like a will, or a passbook depositing money with the bank, the imprisonment shall not be less than one year and the maximum imprisonment shall be more than ten years. If the thing forged is an electronic card, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment not lower than one year and not exceeding five years. And the person possessing such a forged card for use will be imprisoned from one year to seven years or fine from twenty thousand baht to more than a hundred thousand baht or both.
Whoever uses other person’s electronic card in such a way as may cause a detriment to other persons shall be imprisoned not more than five years and fin not more than a hundred thousand baht or both.
If the offence committed under this chapter is in connection with paying the price of goods or for cashing out of money, the punishment shall be half of the above mentioned punishments.
By KRAIVIT BUSINESS AND ESTATE LAW OFFICE :
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