Author: Andrew Drummond
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NEILS COLOV’S LAST THROW OF THE DICE.
REIGN OF PATTAYA’S CHIEF ‘FOREIGN COP’ ‘MEDIA TYCOON’ AND ‘LOCAL HERO’ DRAWS TO AN END CREDITORS CONCERNED AS PAPALLY BLESSED CELEBRITY FOUNDS ‘ MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH’ PROPERTY’ COMPANY. With his media empire collapsing about him Niels Colov, the former Copenhagen pimp, who rose to the giddy heights of a newspaper tycoon and chief…
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‘THAIVISA’ LAWYER ‘TOOK ME FOR MILLIONS’
Well, you’re now fed up with foreign crooks in Thailand. One has taken you for a couple of million baht and you have had a confrontation with him and he’s not giving it back. So, you have called him a crook online to warn others. He’s come back and is now suing you for…
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THAI SPECIAL BRANCH POSSE CATCHES UP WITH BRIT FROM ‘PONDEROSA’.
A LONG WAY TO GO TO CATCH A MAN WHO OVERSTAYED HIS VISA Poor old Londoner Damon Wait has been caught again. And its happened on the day The Sun in London posed the question: ‘Will Thailand be the next country to bore of boozy Brits?’ Damon, who was caught last year with a bag…
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THAILAND – CAMBODIA: ANOTHER BOILER ROOM BOY DISAPPEARS FROM POLICE CLUTCHES
The popular Thai expat website ThaiVisa.com has published a story stating that British boiler room fraudster Toby Nelhams, the believed mastermind behind the murder of fellow Briton Tony Kenway in Pattaya last January, had been released by Cambodian police as long ago as last October. If that’s true then for Nelhams, who was found guilty…
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HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THAILAND’S FISHING INDUSTRY – ‘COVER UP – THE SEQUEL’
Thailand’s effort to put an end to slave labour in the fishing industry is little more then a ‘theatrical exercise for international consumption’, states a report out today. While the Thai government scrambled to create a new ordinance for the fishing industry after severe criticism both of fishing methods and trafficked slave labour by the…
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WANTED BY SCOTLAND YARD? WHAT IS IT WITH THIS ‘CHILLING EFFECT IN THAILAND?’
MONEY MONEY MONEY. IT’S A RICH MAN’S WORLD Mark Hallett, from Somerset, wanted in the UK for fraud and money-laundering, photographs 1 million baht in a Bangkok apartment When the defence lawyers for Zaw Lynn and Wai Phyo, the two Burmese charged and convicted for the murders in Thailand of Britons David Miller and Hannah Witheridge, pleaded in the High Court…
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NINE YEARS WAIT FOR JUSTICE IN HUA HIN SHOOTING CASE FOR SEATTLE WOMAN
*Thai Supreme Court Confirms Life Sentence against main conspirator – the wife of Briton facing drug charges back home. *18 Million Thai baht (US$550,000) damages to widow of former U.S. Marine gunned down in Hua Hin. The Thai Supreme Court has confirmed the life sentence imposed on Janpen ‘Sarah’ Oxley, the wife of Sheffield Briton…
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KEEPING THE LID ON THAI PROPERTY SCANDALS –
The BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is being sued for what a lot more foreign correspondents in Thailand should have been doing for years, is finding out just what it means to get involved in Thailand’s controversial legal system. Jonathan, who took up the cases of Briton’s Ian Rance and Irishman Colin Vard, the latter which…
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BRITS IN ASIAN BOILER ROOMS TARGET PUNTERS FOR ‘UBER’
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND PUNTERS SELECTED IN ‘UBER’ FRAUD Investors particularly in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand need to be careful of a current boiler room fraud operating from ‘rooms’ in Manila, Cebu, and Bangkok. Two fake companies are actively involved and have websites pretending to be in New York and Portland, Oregon.…
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BUSINESSMAN CLEARED OF ROBBERY BY NIGHT CHARGES AFTER ROW WITH THAI PROSTITUTES
AND NO MONEY PAID UNDER THE TABLE PLUS – ‘WHO’S ON THE RUN?’ A South African businessman who was jailed for two weeks in Thailand and forbidden to leave the country for a year after demanding a refund from two prostitutes who did not provide any sex services has been acquitted by a…