Author: Andrew Drummond
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CONDO SCAMMERS IN THAILAND INVENT NEW ‘DON’T REVEAL OUR LIES’ PURCHASE CONTRACT
‘YOU HAVE TO UNDERTAKE NOT TO GO TO COURT IF THINGS GO WRONG OR REVEAL ANYTHING WE HAVE TOLD YOU’ They are at it again – the outrageous duo American Richard Ian Silver and his former Thai mistress Imorn Leukhamkarn the purveyors of mostly imaginary condominiums in Thailand’s mafia controlled eastern seaboard. Having taken cash…
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EDITOR QUITS TO CAMPAIGN FOR ‘INNOCENT BURMESE’ IN KOH TAO MURDER TRIAL
‘TIME TO GET MY BOYS OUT OF HELL’ The publisher and editor of the Samui Times online newspaper has returned to Britain after being troubled by the trial and guilty verdict against the two young Burmese Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. Suzanne Buchanan was reported…
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CONVICTION FOR EXTORTION AGAINST DREW NOYES UPHELD
BUT APPEAL COURT OFFERS LITTLE HOPE OF JUSTICE FOR THOSE CHEATED IN THAILAND The Thai Appeal Court today confirmed the conviction of Drew Noyes for extortion – a fake lawyer and self-appointed foreign adviser to the Mayor of the Thai sex tourism resort of Pattaya on a charge of extortion. The 60-year-old from Wilmington, North…
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FLAWS IN THAILAND’S JUSTICE SYSTEM EXPOSED IN KOH TAO TRIAL
JOURNALISTS FORBIDDEN TO TAKE NOTES MEANT FULL RIGHTS TO PUBLIC HEARING IMPAIRED A report by Solicitors International Human Rights Group has quietly condemned Thailand’s justice system after monitoring the trial of Burmese Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo for the murder of Briton David Miller and murder and rape of Hannah Witheridge. Couched in polite terms…
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EXPOSED IN SIZZLER – PROPERTY FRAUDSTER RICHARD IAN SILVER
THE AGENTS HAVE RUINED MY BUSINESS – SAY AMERICAN CON MAN This is the man known as ‘Richie’ and Richard Ian Silver who is conning millions of baht out of property buyers on Thailand’s eastern seaboard. An American he bears the same name as American Richard Ian Silver from Venice Beach, California, wanted for property…
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‘NO SEX PLEASE’ – MY HUSBAND’S ‘THAI VISA’.
BUT HUBBY DOESN’T CARE. HE’S GOT THE THAIVISA FORUM AND THE 7/11 Spare a thought today for poor old Matthias Schoenfeld. This sprightly pensioner who goes under the name Webfact does not have the 800,000 baht deposit to show for his retirement visa every year so his employer Thai Visa takes responsibility for that for…
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‘BINNY THE BANGKOK BONKER’ WHAT A GREAT TRAFFIC GENERATOR!
‘I’M WRITING THE THAI VISA STORY!’ AND ABOUT ‘MY AUSTRALIAN CONSULAR FRIEND,’ SAID WEBSITE FOUNDER Eric ‘George Anderssen’ had pulled off the coup of the century when, after being deported as an undesirable Herr Lars Jansson by the Royal Thai Police, he returned two years later under his new name to start an…
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EXPOSED THAI VISA DOT COM!
‘BLACKMAIL, GREED, FRAUD CORRUPTION AND BONKING AT ASIA’S BIGGEST INTERNET PORTAL But not many visas From its grubby beginnings in a small office off Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Road to its sale last year for a reported US$2million* this week we investigate what its new owners describe as Thailand’s biggest media site for foreigners. This story…
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TAX THREAT TO ‘ I’M OK NORBERT’ ON THAI ‘PARADISE’ ISLE
HAVE THE AUTHORITIES BEEN WATCHING THE UNTOUCHABLES? Norbert Verweyen the rogue property developer on Koh Samui who appears to have spent an inordinate amount of time terrorising his buyers with Computer Crime Act cases – and others – appears to be beating a tactical retreat. The man, mainly known for companies with the name ‘Coconut’…
