Chon Buri Immigration Police arrested a Russian woman for illegally operating a beauty clinic from her condominium in Pattaya, with services reportedly aimed at Russian clients.
The Chon Buri Provincial Immigration Office said it received a tip-off that a Russian national was running an unlicensed clinic and promoting it through advertisements and customer reviews on Instagram.
Officers investigated the information and traced the suspected operation to a condominium room in Bang Lamung district, prompting them to monitor the residence.
During surveillance, officers saw a Russian woman, later identified as 34 year old Anastasia, welcoming several foreign visitors and taking them up to the room. The visits of various foreigners proved the possibility of her illegal actions, leading officers to raid her room yesterday, March 10.
Officers found the condominium unit was set up as a beauty clinic, with a treatment bed, medical equipment and a large quantity of medical supplies. Police seized equipment and beauty products as evidence. Some of the beauty and medical products were unregistered under Thai law.
Anastasia and a male client who was present during the raid were taken to a police station for questioning. Police said Anastasia admitted she owned the clinic and confessed to providing treatments without a permit.
Source: The Thaiger