Police raid Russian Go-Go Bars in South Pattaya

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From Pattaya One

 

 

In the early hours of Tuesday, the Tourist Police, in conjunction with the Crime Suppression Police from Bangkok conducted raids on two Russian Go-Go Bars on Walking Street.

Despite the bars operating for many years in full view of the authorities, Police have decided the time has come to raid two of venues where a large number of illegal foreign workers were found and subsequently arrested.

The first venue to be raided was the Moulin Rouge Bar located in the center of Walking Street. A total of 5 Russian Workers were arrested and were found not to possess Work Permits.

The second venue was the “Crazy Russian Girls” Bar at the Southern end of Walking Street where Police arrested a total of 23 Russian and Kazakhstan Nationals, a mix of staff and customers.

In the second venue, a small number of customers who were found not to be carrying their original Passports with them were arrested. This is a minor offense in Thailand and offenders can be subject to a small fine if prosecuted.

A total of 25 Foreign Dancers in both venues were charged with working without a valid Work Permit and are now subject to further legal proceedings.
The future of both venues is unclear at this time.

 

Any reason for this? Other than it is about time.

 

Are they in negotiations for a new lease?

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Two Walking Street go-go bars were busted on Monday night with Pattaya police cuffing 28 Russian and Kazakh dancers found to be working illegally.

Six women working without work permits were taken from Moulin Rouge with a further 22 arrested at Crazy Russian Girls.

Down the station background checks were run on all the women with 25 found to be working illegally. All were detained and face charges and deportation with the club owners also looking at court for illegally employing foreigners.

Raids on Russian go-go bars are nothing new with several losing their entire staffs for anywhere from a day (Moulin Rouge, Galaxy) to permanently (B-52), depending on the “agreement” they have in place with authorities to allow foreign women to dance semi-nude in Thailand when work permits for doing so are impossible to get.

Moulin Rouge was last busted on July 28, 2013.

That theatrical crackdown netted the arrests of 11 Russian employees, including nine dancers, who were threatened with deportation for working illegally or employing illegals.

Established for nearly 10 years, Moulin Rouge is hardly a secret to police. In 2008, the “misunderstanding” that led to the raid was quickly sorted out, as the eight supposedly illegal dancers were released by the end of the night and the bar was operating as usual the following night.

This time around it’s unlikely anything will be “sorted” so easily with a nationwide crackdown against human trafficking and the current wave of raids on Pattaya bars and clubs in a bid to weed out illegals and visa overstayers.

 

 

 

 

Mention here of "human trafficking" so perhaps this is more serious than previous raids?

 

But then if this was to be a game-changer,then why leave out Galaxy and XO?

 

Might be business as usual,but maybe things are changing and there might be closures?

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Maybe the other WS owners wanted to deny ISIS a target.

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Here's a good YouTube video of the Russian girls passing out flyers. The guy who made it must have been using a hidden camera...no way would the Russians smile if they thought they were being photographed.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIK6qX9QuMk