Migrant child registration probe expands nationwide

Officials from the Department of Provincial Administration search a room at the Din Daeng Flats complex in Bangkok on Tuesday, after hundreds of suspicious household registrations were uncovered. (Photo: Department of Provincial Administration)

Thai authorities are expanding investigations into widespread use of fake birth and ID registrations from Bangkok to all provinces as the issue jeopardises national security, according to a deputy interior minister.

Worasit Liangprasit said the arrest of seven people suspected of arranging fake house registrations for more than 1,400 migrant children in Din Daeng district of Bangkok on Tuesday showed the scale of the problem.