From The Bangkok Post, April 14 (I know the followup is dated before the original post but what with the International Dateline and...or is it the other way round?):
Navy complaint over 'living platform'
The Third Naval Area Command has filed a police complaint against an American man and his Thai wife who set up a floating living platform 12 nautical miles off the coast of Phuket, a practice also known as seasteading.
Staff judge advocates from the command were sent to lodge the complaint at Wichit police station in Phuket on Saturday, according to a source at the command. They accused Chad Andrew Elwartowski and his Thai wife, Supranee Thepdet, with an English alias of Nadia Summergirl, of breaching Section 119 of Criminal Code.HT: Motherboard's "Seasteading Bitcoin Fans Say They're 'On the Run' From Thai Government".
The section concerns any acts that cause the country or parts of it to fall under the sovereignty of a foreign state or deterioration of the state's independence.
It is punishable by death or life imprisonment....MORE
