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Chuwit Kamolvisit | |
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ชูวิทย์ กมลวิศิษฎ์ | |
Leader of Rak Thailand Party | |
In office 18 February 2010 – 17 January 2017 | |
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Born | British Hong Kong | 29 August 1961
Political party | Rak Thailand Party |
Other political affiliations | Thai Nation Party (until 2007) |
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Chuwit Kamolvisit (Thai: ชูวิทย์ กมลวิศิษฎ์; RTGS: Chuwit 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.