Chuwit Kamolvisit

Chuwit Kamolvisit
ชูวิทย์ กมลวิศิษฎ์
Chuwit at post-arson CentralWorld on 20 May 2010 after the 2010 Thai military crackdown
Leader of Rak Thailand Party
In office
18 February 2010 – 17 January 2017
Personal details
Born (1961-08-29) 29 August 1961 (age 63)
British Hong Kong
Political partyRak Thailand Party
Other political
affiliations
Thai Nation Party (until 2007)
Spouses
  • Kate W. Johnson (div.)
  • Ngamta Kamolvisit
Children
  • Tontrakun Kamolvisit
  • Termtragoon Kamolvisit
  • Trakarnta Kamolvisit
  • Tortragoon Kamolvisit
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Chuwit Kamolvisit (Thai: ชูวิทย์ กมลวิศิษฎ์; RTGSChuwit Kamonwisit; born 29 August 1961) is a controversial Thai politician who was once the country's biggest massage parlour owner, known as the "tub tycoon".[1] After an arrest in 2003, he publicly claimed that he paid large bribes to many Thai police officers. He then sold some of his massage parlors, formed his own political party and unsuccessfully ran for Bangkok governor in August 2004. In 2005 he was elected for a four-year term to the Thai House of Representatives, but in 2006 the Constitutional Court removed him from parliament. In October 2008 he again ran for governor of Bangkok as an independent but was not elected. In the July 2011 general election his party won four seats in the House of Representatives. He used the pseudonym Davis Kamol on occasion.

  1. ^ Renton, Alex (May 2005). "Learning the Thai sex trade". Prospect. Retrieved 13 January 2018.