Thor Halland, a former officer in the Scots Guards and contestant in the winning Birkbeck College team on BBC’s University Challenge in 2003 claims he was set up for a three month spell in a Thai prison on false charges by a phony lawyer, immigration police and a rogue foreign police volunteer assistant. Picture Thor Halland with Thai Animal Rescue …
RUSSIAN IMMIGRATION POLICEMAN TAKES A BEATING IN CAMBODIA
WHAT RUSSIAN MAFIA? NOT HERE! Before – Captain Ostap Doroshenko – family picture It has got it all. Feuding Russians, retribution, fast cars, perhaps faster women, and an island fortress resort in an country struggling to develop. Two Russians Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky have been having a long business feud over ownership of the Victory beach down near Sihanoukville, …
A FLUSHING OF TOILETS IN LARD PRAO –
THE WEST AFRICAN CONNECTION – AND AN UNLIKELY JOURNALIST Today we bring you the first short instalment in a new occasional series on crime in Thailand. The Flying Sporran has been with the Narcotics Suppression Division and Immigration Police on raids in Bangkok. In this taster we wake up a hidden community in the capital and watch as they take …