A well-known Pratamnak Hill coyote club has been ordered closed for five years following the second police raid in two months.
Viper Bar was among three nightclubs raided by Banglamung District officials April 26. Also hit that night was the Play Club lesbian bar on Soi Chaiyaphum, which had ignored a previous shut-down order, and the O Club hostess bar on North Road in Naklua.
None of the owners or management could be found at Viper when authorities rolled in due to complaints about it being open after legal closing time. Seventeen bar employees, dancers and security guards were tested for drugs, with one security guard failing.
Viper already had been raided March 13 when officials cited the establishment for operating after hours and possessing expired licenses. The manager was warned at the time that further violations would result in de facto permanent closure of five years, but operations continued unchanged until the axe fell on the multimillion-baht nightclub.
The order for a five-year closure was submitted to Chonburi Province and is waiting to be served on the owners, once they can be located. In the interim, the bar remains closed.
At Play Club, police and district officials found the party in full swing at 2:30 a.m. Manager Hawisa Nakasem was arrested and will be prosecuted for failing to obey the earlier closure order.
At O Bar, 40 female staffers were found entertaining Thai men at 4:30 a.m. Five of them were found to have no identification cards. Owner Montien Klisana was arrested and charged for operating without a proper licenses and past legal hours.
