Investigations

A Flying Sporran Enquiry, BangkokNovember 9th 2011  (Updated 11-11-11)  The British President of a Rotary Club in Thailand has reportedly been detained and had his passport confiscated after being accused of swindling foreign property investors out of millions of pounds. Richard Haughton, 63, a former Tupperware salesman, from Birmingham, was cautioned by officers of the Department of Special Investigation from Chonburi […]

The logo of the alleged law firm shows two suited but headless figures running off with two bags over three mechanical cogs. Could this be interpreted as two brainless lawyers running of with their clients’ cash while the cogs of justice slowly grind to a halt?Absolutely, says frail Dutch pensioner Hans Boozajer, 67, but it’s not the Thai […]

  Original version read 1,870 times – A Flying Sporran EnquiryFrom  ANDREW DRUMMOND,BangkokOctober 11 2011Drew Noyes & Thai Immigration & Labour Law Part 1 Two Filipina girls hired by self-proclaimed ‘newspaper publisher, philanthropist, and legal expert’ in Thailand have broken their silence on their ordeal after fleeing their jobs all but penniless after just four weeks. […]

A Flying Sporran Enquiry From ANDREW DRUMMOND Jomtien, October 3 2011 Housing built for Thailand’s poor has been bought cynically off the books of the National Housing Authority and is being marketed – by an American ‘businessman’ with a dubious past – to foreign tourists and expatriates. And in verified cases the cash invested was not passed […]

He says he hobnobs with Royalty, civic leaders, diplomats, police, army and naval officers and adds that he is the ‘most credible and reassuring person to make Thailand his home’™.   American Drew Noyes is a man of many parts. He has claimed to be a lawyer, a real estate developer, a stock-broker, a journalist,  a dedicated family man […]

From Andrew DrummondBangkok, July 4 2011 More than ten years have passed and the sound and picture are fuzzy. But a video is now doing the rounds which a judge refused allowance to be shown in a Thai court. The video records the very odd arrest of a Briton on a drugs charge in Pattaya, Thailand. Lawyers for Kevin Quill, who […]

From Andrew Drummond, Labuan, Sabah, North BorneoJune 6 2011He has been described as ‘a charmer’ and a ‘gentleman and a scholar’ but if David Elias had ever had those attributes they did not come to the fore during his last years commuting around the world from this tiny island off the coast of North Borneo.David Elias […]

From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, May 23 2011PLAYING THE COURTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA – BRIBES AT DAWN IN BALI Death threats, fraud and corruption, Point Piper in Sydney harbour is once again connected with controversy, but this time involving the men who built Australia’s most expensive house. Now a case in Indonesia is one of several which […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok Welfare officials in Thailand have interviewed two Irish children aged 12 and 9, who were allegedly thrown down a well, while their father was away on a business trip and being robbed of his property. How the Daily Mail May 2 2011  ran with the story Police in Chalong, Phuket, interviewed […]

‘We have been advised by the police to move location every three days’ FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, SURAT THANI, THAILAND May 1st 2011 Two children of an Irish businessman were thrown into a well while his housekeeper working  with ‘organised criminals’ set about to defraud him of his mansion and six other houses on the Thai island […]