As part of a campaign against begging, social development and human security staff and local police went to a market on Khong Tham Road in Muang Chai Nat municipality today (January 27), and there found 39-year-old Chinese beggar Xu Baosong, who has deformed hands.
Mr Xu is from Henan province, China, and did not speak Thai or English, and officials struggled to explain to him that begging is illegal in Thailand.
In a subsequent search, they at first found coins totalling B480 in his possession, but were then stunned to discover a lot of Thai bank notes in the Chinese man's shoulder bag, totalling B21,540.
"This beggar was carrying more money than my whole monthly salary," said one official.
Mr Xu stayed at a hotel in the centre of Chai Nat, close to where he sat and begged. Authorities found many more coins in his room there. After questioning and charging the man, they took him to local immigration police for repatriation to China.
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