‘WHAT CHANCE DO HONEST PEOPLE HAVE?” – HOW FUND PROVIDERS TURNED A BLIND EYE IN LM SCAM
“THIS IS A DODGE – I SWEAR ON MY LIFE” Fund providers such as Royal Skandia and Friends Provident turned a blind eye to warnings over the dodgy LM Managed Performance Fund despite repeated emails from whistle-blower financial man Martyn Terpilowski – then based in Tokyo. The fund managers attitude to the well being of […]
Independent Financial Advisers – Bond Providers in LM Scandal to be sued.
Expats in Hong Kong are now suing local independent financial advisers, pension fund trustees, and life insurance companies who promoted the LM Managed Performance Fund, and some expats in Thailand have also begun the same process. A report today in the South China Morning Post by Benjamin Robertson, who has also linked up to ‘whistleblower’ […]
THREE, NO, FOUR STRIKES AND NOT OUT FOR THE BANGKOK POST’S FINANCIAL ADVISER
GOOD NEWS FOR EXPAT INVESTORS WITH IFA’S IN THAILAND. THEIR RATINGS ARE STABLE – THEY ARE STILL AS BAD AS EVER! There’s nothing like living a dream and the top spot in my nominations for people who are doing so in Thailand must go to the Bangkok Post’s financial advice columnist Andrew Wood who has […]
FAKE LAWYER TO HAVE HIS DAY IN COURT OVER BOTTOMLESS PANTS PICTURE
BRITISH JOURNALIST ADMITS ‘FRUSTRATION’ WITH THAI LEGAL SYSTEM Samui Provincial Court today accepted a charge from fake lawyer Brian Goudie claiming that British journalist Andrew Drummond had committed libel under the Computer Crime Act by publishing a photo-shopped picture of him in a gay parade. Andrew Drummond will have to attend Samui Court on October […]
HOW COLUMNIST’S SEX WITH A LEPER LED TO TRIPPING OUT ON THAI HOLIDAY ISLAND
AT WHAT PRICE? DRUGGIES HEAD FOR KOH PHANGAN FOR MIRACLE CURE Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary Picture – Coconuts – Woolsey with Trink I was slightly intrigued by the interview by young Canadian ‘video journalist’ Barbara Woolsey on ‘Coconuts’ of the Bangkok Post’s legendary former entertainment columnist Bernard Trink that I decided to dig a little […]
Murders, stabbings, ‘bad foreigners’, and a man loose with a Taser
IT’S GOT IT ALL – KOH SAMUI’S INFAMOUS SOI GREEN MANGO It’s got it all apparently. Youngsters on their holidays have been known to spend almost every night in Soi Green Mango in perfect safety. It has the last closing dance spot, partially owned by police, lots of bars and even the island’s ‘Dream Girls’ […]
LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES – HOW LM PLAYED FOR TIME
AN EXCRUCIATING EMAIL EXCHANGE BETWEEN LM AND A FINANCIAL ADVISER If there can be any doubt that directors of the company and salesmen of the product were lying their heads off then the following long series of emails from an adviser trying to get his clients’ money back will put an end to them. Martyn […]
LAMBS OR RAMS TO THE SLAUGHTER – IT’S ALL DAMN WRONG
-LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES AGAIN – WITH BRITAIN’S C4- Certain types of documentary surface on a regular basis. One such theme is ‘Thai Brides’ which holds a special attraction for British television. The latest piece of work on this subject is called ‘My Internet Bride’ and the first episode on C4 […]
CAN YOU HELP THIS BOILER ROOM OUT? THEY’VE MADE A BAD INVESTMENT
The notorious SpartaMatrix company which has been running boiler rooms out of Manila and Bangkok is, it appears, in a spot of bother. It has been washing its cash into port facilities in Croatia pretending to have some sort of logistical know-how. The holding company Miklavja LC has gone belly up and filed for bankruptcy […]
POLICE, ARMY, ON THE TAKE FROM WOLVES OF BANGKOK – CLAIMS
FORMER PRIME MINISTER NAMED Boiler room bosses, aka ‘The Wolves of Bangkok’, have been making widespread payments to several police departments and even an army general, it is claimed today. Investors chasing the ‘Bangkok Five’, the major share trading scammers in the Thai capital describe farcical moments as bosses made arrangements to either get their […]
