HE SCREWED EXPATS IN THAILAND FOR MILLIONS – NOW HE’S WANTED FOR ARREST IN THE CARIBBEAN
BUT DAVID AMES FLEES BY BOAT A warrant of arrest has been issued in St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean for Briton David Ames the boss of Harlequin Property, who, together with fellow Brit Richard Haughton, swindled hundreds of people who had invested in properties on Thailand’s eastern seaboard. Ames, the subject of […]
THAI JUNTA SHOWS BRITAIN HOW TO RUN A REFERENDUM
Thailand’s military dictator General Prayuth Chan-Ocha who has jailed many dissenters and is now making undisguised and widespread threats to jail more – has firmly targeted journalists in a bid to push through a new constitution which will drag the country back 100 years. The latest arrest of the Prachatai journalist is a case in […]
CAN’T FIND THE CRIMINALS – THEN ARREST THEIR VICTIMS! – THAI CRACKDOWN
IN TRUE STYLE THAI CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGNERS NETS VICTIM OF FOREIGN FRAUDSTER THEY LET GO! Following the military take-over of the country’s premier sex resort city of Pattaya a report to ‘Military Circle 14’ has resulted in the announcement of the arrest of hapless Brit Andy Ronald Mathews for insulting Thais. Mathews is a victim […]
‘DROP THIS STORY OR WE’LL EXPOSE YOU AS PAEDOPHILE!’
ACCOUNT ON FINANCIAL SCAMMERS IN PHNOM PENH INFURIATES AS EXPATS IN RANGOON ARE NOW TARGETTED. ‘Cornettos, very young schoolgirls, a secret pad – and a journo’ Independent financial advisers, feeling the heat in Bangkok, have been stepping up their efforts to find customers in Myanmar paying flying visits to offer unbeatable deals to expats wondering […]
FINNS TO FLY IN FOR TRIAL OF MIGRANT WORKERS RIGHTS ACTIVIST ANDY HALL
The executive director of Finnwatch, the consumer group which produced a critical report on the Thai fruit canning company ‘Natural Fruit’ citing its treatment of migrant Burmese labour is to fly in from Helsinki to Thailand to the trial of British team member Andy Hall. In the long running farce in which Natural Fruit has […]
KOH TAO MURDERS DEFENCE TEAM ANSWER CRITICS
CASE FOR YOUNG BURMESE HIT BY FACTIONALISM The defence team in the Koh Tao murder case has denied what it describes as damaging claims made in a story on the Thai Visa forum in Thailand – sourced from the Samui Times website. Lawyers for the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin have issued […]
ANOTHER TOURIST’S ORDEAL AT THE HANDS OF THAI JUSTICE
THAI FAST TRACKED JUSTICE FOR TOURISTS JUST ANOTHER MYTH A Danish tourist falsely arrested for allegedly attempting an insurance scam after losing his wallet on a night out was jailed, extorted out of cash, and has only been allowed to leave the country after being acquitted at the end of his six-month ordeal. Nong Plalai […]
MARKSMAN WITH SENATORIAL INVITE TO WHITE HOUSE WANTED IN THAI COURT
He’s been playing with guns and boasting about his senator approved trip to the White House But still the noticeably absent publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times newspaper Drew Noyes must stand trial for libel according to the Thai Appeal Court. Noyes, who fled to the States, but not before a payment to the […]
CHAMPAGNE DAYS OVER FOR BRITISH BERK OF BANGKOK?
Police in Somerset have been in touch with police in Bangkok over the case of Mark Hallett – a British scammer first exposed on this site as one of the new ‘sophisticated berks of Bangkok’. Hallett, 48, skipped the UK while facing 11 fraud charges related to a Ponzi’ investment scheme. His father was a […]
KOH TAO MURDER APPEAL – NO RAPE, NO LUST, NO MOTIVE, NO PROPER DNA, NO CASE
BUT DEFENCE SHY OVER BRINGING THAILAND’S POLICE LABORATORY INTO DISREPUTE A summary of the appeal by the ‘Koh Tao Two’ against conviction and the death sentence for the murders of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller appears to totally demolish a sloppy prosecution case in the controversial trial in Thailand. The appeal highlights blatant […]
