Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) says it plans to crackdown on the use by foreigners of proxies or nominees to “operate businesses which are normally off-limits to them [foreigners]” after the agency was given authority to investigate nine more categories of ‘special cases’, reports the 7 January 2012 edition of the Bangkok Post. As summarized here , Thailand has expansive laws prohibiting foreign ownership of local businesses.
This same article says the DSI will also investigate various recognized trans-national criminal activities, such as human trafficking and computer crimes. The article says so-called nominee shareholding in violation of the Thailand’s Foreign Business Act (FBA) will also be subject to a DSI crackdown similar to a crackdown on these other, generally recognized, trans-national crimes.