– Royal Thai Immigration officers detained a 41-year-old Chinese man, identified in reports as Mr. Yang, at a condominium in Pattaya on the afternoon of the 7th of October 2026.
– Chinese authorities want him on an embezzlement warrant issued on the 15th of July 2019, the same day he entered Thailand. They allege he transferred about 5.5 million yuan, roughly 27 million baht, from a bank into his own account in 12 transfers in 2018–2019.
– His permission to stay expired on the 29th of July 2019. Officers put the overstay at 2,642 days, more than seven years.
– He was charged with remaining in Thailand after his permission ended and handed to Pattaya City Police. Any return to China depends on the separate warrant process.
Immigration Bureau investigators arrested the man at about 3:40 p.m. on the 7th of October after tracing him to a condominium in Pattaya city. The operation was directed by Pol. Lt. Gen. Noppasin Pulsawat, commissioner of the Immigration Bureau and director of its centre for foreign criminal suspects, with Sub-Division 1 of the Immigration Investigation Division making the arrest.
Officers said Chinese public security in Siping, in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, issued a warrant for him on the 15th of July 2019 for embezzlement. Chinese authorities told Thai immigration he was still wanted and asked that he be located and held under Thai law.
In the Chinese allegation, Mr. Yang was general manager of the business department at Beiyin Rural Town Bank Siping. Between 2018 and 2019 he is accused of using that position to move company funds into a personal account 12 times. The total is put at about 5.5 million yuan, or about 27 million baht. The reports say the money had not been repaid and that the bank treated the loss as serious. Those claims come from the Chinese case file relayed to Thai officers. They have not been tested in a Thai court.
Entry records checked by immigration show he arrived in Thailand on 15 July 2019, the date on the Chinese warrant, and was allowed to stay until 29 July 2019. He did not leave. By the day of the arrest the overstay stood at 2,642 days.
He was initially charged as a foreigner who entered and remained in the kingdom after permission had ended, then taken to Pattaya City Police Station.
Immigration said the arrest is part of ongoing work against foreign nationals wanted abroad who use Thailand as a place to hide. Pattaya has seen similar files this year. In September, Chonburi immigration arrested a Chinese man at a luxury house in Nong Pla Lai on an INTERPOL Red Notice tied to an overseas online gambling network. In June, Pattaya City Police and immigration detained another Chinese national at Suvarnabhumi as he prepared to fly out on a Pattaya court warrant in a fraud and document case.
Overstay is handled first under the Immigration Act. In practice, remaining after permission expires can bring a daily fine, commonly cited at 500 baht a day and capped at 20,000 baht, plus detention and removal. Longer overstays also feed into re-entry bans.