Chuwit Kamolvisit

Chuwit Kamolvisit (Thai: ชูวิทย์ กมลวิศิษฎ์) (born August 29, 1961) is a controversial Thai politician who was once the country's biggest massage parlor owner. After an arrest in 2003, he went public with his claims of having paid large bribes to hundreds of 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.

Chuwit is the son of a Hong Kong-born Chinese father and a Thai mother. He has sometimes used the pseudonym Davis Kamol. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy at Thammasat University, and then earned a Master of Business Administration degree in San Diego, California. He is divorced from his American wife, who lives in the United States with their two children.