2016

BUT DREW NOYES CONVICTION OFFERS SCANT HOPE FOR FOREIGNERS CHEATED IN PATTAYA The Thai Appeal Court today confirmed the conviction of Drew Noyes – 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 Carolina, failed to […]

JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE FULL NOTES – Solicitors International 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 the […]

‘PROPERTY AGENTS HAVE RUINED MY COMPANY’ –  SAYS BOSS OF IMAGINARY HOLIDAY CONDOS 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. He was recently caught dining out in ‘Sizzler’ restaurant in Pattaya with his latest female companion. An […]

‘ALSO I GET TO GO TO THE 7/11 WHEN I WANT’ 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 him. […]

ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD, BLACKMAIL AND CASH FOR VISAS REVEALED AFTER SELL OUT TO NEW FRONT MAN 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.     […]

BUT DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS HANDS FILE TO TAX MAN AFTER DIPLOMATIC RUMBLINGS 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. NORBERT (TOP LEFT) WITH SUTHEP (FRONT […]

ARREST WARRANTS ISSUED FOR RICHARD IAN SILVER A man with an identical name to Richard Ian Silver- the foreigner behind CW Assets property group on Thailand’s eastern seaboard – has had warrants of arrest issued against him in the United States in connection with property fraud. While operating a company called the ‘American Home Buyers […]

NAH – JUST KIDDING! AS HUNDREDS WHO PLANNED TO LIVE THE DREAM IN THAILAND FACE RUIN – DEVELOPER GOES FOR TARGET PRACTICE Imorn has some rough edges reportf buyers A popular ‘independent’ Pattaya property writer appears to have had a ‘Road to Damascus’ conversion and is having trouble getting on to his keyboard to write […]

Fresh from his acquittal of a spurious case brought against him by fake lawyer Drew Noyes, oilman Ally Cooper is now offering a 50,000  100,000 Thai baht reward for anyone who tracks down the other famous fake lawyer, namely Brian Goudie, born Goldie, from Falkirk, who posed an an officer and a gentleman. So here […]

BUT CAN THE MILITARY’S BUSINESSMAN CLEAR OUT MAFIA IN THAI SEX RESORT? OR ARE THEY JUST REPLACING THEM? FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY Thailand’s military have given the ‘city fathers’ in the world’s most famous sex resort  of Pattaya six months to vacate their chairs at city hall. The deadline runs out on June 16th when […]