Thai Princess arrested for crossing border to gamble
Bangkok: A glass slipper turned into a pumpkin for a royal Thai princess, when her luck turned sour after a gambling-fix led her to flout migration laws, The Nation newspaper reported yesterday. The report said Princess Bhanuma Yugala, daughter of the late Prince Bhanubhandu Yugala, was arrested and fined for crossing the border illegally to go on a gambling binge at a Cambodian casino.
Gambling is illegal in Thailand, yet widespread throughout Thai society. Thus, major casino owners have established operations just across the border into Cambodia, aimed primarily at Thai bettors.
Authorities at the Aranyaphrathet border post were at a loss to explain why the princess had chosen to take a shady illegal route, rather than the legal one used daily by hundreds of high-rolling compatriots.
Police officials told the newspaper that Bhanuma did confess to hiring a people-smuggler from the village market to take her across the border 10 days before, to try her luck at the Poi Pet casino complex. When her luck ran dry, and sheor an illegal border crossing, the report said.
A police lieutenant-colonel told the newspaper that she was unable to pay the fine, alleging that she had been robbed in Cambodia. He said officials did not believe her story, nor did they allow her to go free upon her promise to give up the smuggler.
DPA
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