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Smuggling luxury cars is a big thing in Thailand. There is a 200% tax to import them. There are busts reported in the news now and then. Sometimes it's a shipme
by geomark 6y ago
Smuggling luxury cars is a big thing in Thailand. There is a 200% tax to import them. There are busts reported in the news now and then. Sometimes it's a shipment of "used" car parts which is really a container of disassembled super cars shipped in to be reassembled and sold. Sometimes it is cars imported by alleged students who were studying overseas and can bring back the cars they were driving for only a 30% import tax.
The police aren't much use for enforcing laws in Thailand, especially against the rich kids.
- Clewza313 6y agoThe most egregious case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert TL;DR: Red Bull heir kills a cop with speeding Ferrari and runs from scene. Heir mysteriously avoids all charges and summons with increasingly farcical excuses on both sides, until all charges are mysteriously dropped 10 years later.
- geomark 6y agoYeah, that's a good example of how the rich can get away with anything in Thailand. In most places if you kill a cop the cops make sure you get what's coming to you. But here even the cops can't get justice for other cops if the perp is the brat son of the ultra rich.