HARLEQUIN'S MISSING MILLIONS. TRY LOOKING AT KOH CHANG!

TAKE £500 MILLION TO BUILD RETIREMENT HOMES IN THE CARIBBEAN -

FIND A RESORT PREFERABLY AT LEAST 10,000 MILES IN THE OTHER DIRECTION- LIKE THAILAND - GET SOMEONE ELSE TO BUILD IT-

AND NOW YOU'RE WHISTLING DIXIE! -

I am not holding my breath waiting for the BBC to broadcast the edition of Panorama it was going to put to air a couple of months back about the activities of former double glazing bankrupt David Ames and his Harlequin Property empire.

 Siam Royal View

Harlequin has SINCE gone into administration. Its assets and those of David Ames and his wife have been frozen. He has, HE SAYS, declared to the UK courts all his assets. His creditors fear  now that he will flee to the Caribbean island of St. Vincent where he has already been granted citizenship.

But has he lied about his assets? Well it seems so. A couple of weeks ago I found myself on a flight down to Trat near the Cambodian border and then on to a ferry for the island of Koh Chang, sometimes referred to as Koh Thaksin.

David Ames

I can confirm that Ames, from Essex, made a sizeable investment there in Kacha Island Resort which is the company which holds the Siam Royal View project ‘owned’ (well foreigners can’t but you know what I mean) by a Swiss millionaire.

I was expecting to see a lavish resort with impeccable security, and lots of people running around with Prada handbags and Crepe-Knit bikinis, and throwing Bollinger receptions off the back of motor yachts.

That is what I was led to believe by the glossy programmes local programmes which have been airing on the resort. Alas it was not to be.  While many luxury villas have been built I could not find anyone occupying them.  But maybe they were all having long siestas. Or maybe all the buyers, like Ames, were buyers for investment.

They were not particularly lavish, but priced from Bt8.6 million to Bt16.4 they clearly outpriced some expensive properties in Bangkok.

In the quiet restaurant I caught up with the management. In fact the only people having lunch in the restaurant were management.  I caught the star of the TV promos Roland Steiner and asked him about Ames.  He, I have to say, was extremely guarded.

Lunch at Siam Royal View - Lonely perhaps, but property prices on the island have increased ten fold in 10 years

Well obviously Roland, CEO of the Siam Royal View Group of Companies, wanted to protect his glittering clientele. All he could confirm was that Ames and Richard Haughton, yes he of Emerald Palace fame, had visited the resort. Ames had been brought by Haughton. And Ames made a significant investment. He also confirmed that the cash came from ‘offshore’ and contracts were signed in individuals names.

He refused to tell me how much though, saying that his other clients would be horrified that he would give out such detail.

“I do not know what monies have been taxed or not,” he added.

I thought that foreigners had pretty much to declare what cash they were bringing into Thailand to invest in property (or anything for that matter).  Still I did not push him.  Well yes I did.  I did sort of appeal to his conscience.

 “There are victims all over the place who have put in something to the tune of £600 million, I said. They want to know what’s happened to their money.”

These of course were people who had invested cash in Harlequin Property projects – mainly in the Caribbean.

I appealed later in a phone call.

“Look I’m not the Red Cross,” he said.

Clearly not.



Roland had however stated that he was speaking from a rather comfortable position. Harlequin or Ames would not be getting its or his cash back.  Ames was in breach of contract. Moreover Racha Island had not handed over any property title deeds or chanotes.

“We have invited Mr. Ames to come and see us and clear up a few matters, but he has not replied.”

Anyway Harlequin investors should know there’s at least one cool £1 million plus which appears to have gone down the pan in the Gulf of Thailand. I know its only a drop in the ocean. But how many are there?

WANTED SUCKERS! Niels Colov CEO of the Pattaya People Media Group welcoming David Ames to Pattaya.
The property in the picture never got built. The model is of Lake Villas which is mired in controversy.
Mr. Colov was given two apartments there  in lieu of advertising bills.

This of course leads me back to Panorama. The award winning producer Mathew Chapman, whom I spoke to during the programme’s research period, has, as we all know, has been suspended by the BBC which offered the following statement.

‘The BBC takes a zero-tolerance approach to bribery and corruption and is committed to acting professionally, fairly and with integrity in all its business dealings and relationships wherever it operates.’

Chapman has been accused by Harlequin of offering a bribe.  Something I am sure this company knows a lot about.

This is how the Daily Telegraph described what went on:

“Matthew Chapman emailed Sean Ghent, a Harlequin security consultant, describing himself as an award-winning Panorama producer, and saying: ''I was wondering if I could be a bit cheeky here.''Panorama and the BBC is always using security and protection officers and although I cannot guarantee anything we may be able to put things your way."He added: ''Or we could work together on stories. It's always good to keep one eye on the future!''How would you feel helping me out in a totally confidential way.’’?Mr. Ghent told The Times he was shocked by the producer's approach to him via the LinkedIn website on March 13."It seemed to me he was trying to offer me an enticement,'' he said.The Times reported that in a letter to the BBC's litigation department, Harlequin said: ''On any sensible interpretation, the message to Mr. Ghent is simply staggering.''It appears to constitute a flagrant and in our view highly improper attempt by (the journalist) to induce Mr. Ghent into disclosing information about Harlequin in return for the potential reward of future work from the BBC."

I am afraid the BBC does not have a great track record for defending its staff. And the decision to waste Chapman, an award winning journalist, was certainly in my view rather hasty.  They presented his backside on a silver salver. Could this be a 'reverse ferret'?  Further offering work at the BBC at the rates they pay nowadays seems much more of a threat than a bribe.

In what passes for Fleet Street of course everybody wants to have a go at the BBC whenever possible. I know during the periods I worked for Panorama out of a house in Lime Grove many many years ago I was taking my time off from carrying out my other duties which was panning the waste of money at the BBC for a Murdoch newspaper. The staff (contract) guys took it all good-naturedly. And they certainly never overpaid my expenses.

Somewhat longer in the tooth if I were Mr. Chapman I am afraid I would have told Mr. Ghent: “If you don’t come clean about this sh*t organization I hope you go down with it you pompous little pr*ck”  I would not have put that in writing or said it down the phone - a better location would have been standing at the men's urinals at Millwall F.C.

Chapman it seems may have missed the signposting about Mr. Ghent.

This is how one former Harlequin staffer described Mr. Ghent’s activities at Harlequin’s flagship resort, nay only resort, in St. Vincent, Mr. Ghent, like Ames an Essex boy,  is Harlequin's Global Head of Security and Risk.

“Up until February I was employed as a contracts manager on Harlequin Developments Construction Site at Buccament Bay.
I was responsible for the building off and most importantly the development of the new villas and block two.
However when I was ordered to use Mr. Andy Smith (procure indirect) foreign workers, all from Prague, instead of excellent qualified local brothers & sisters. When I question this practice I was told by Messrs.’ Smith, Terry, Campion and Ghent that if I didn’t “toe the Company line” then I would be out.
Without hesitation I resigned. I do not want my professionalism and great work ethics ruined by such devious and underhanded business practices.
I was contacted by Simon Terry (Lawyer) and told I must leave St. Vincent immediately and that if I mentioned anything about Harlequin or Buccament Bay, that I would be sued.
How dare this pompous and arrogant Man and Company deal with me like this? I suffered daily threats and accusations from Harlequin People, especially a Mr. Shaun Ghent who actually told me “I will make you disappear Boy”. How dare he. He is a nasty, racist, rude and angry man who tries to intimidate because he is a big overweight bully.
Just a small point. These are my lands and Islands, as a Proud Bajan Man, don’t come here and try and throw your weight around.
We are a proud People West Indians and we know how to deal with imperialist racists. How dare he call me “boy”.
I continue to get threats of Legal action against me and also violent, intimidatory (sic) threats from the South African bully boy. Everywhere he now goes he has a heavily tattooed man and a big German shepherd dog with him, does that mean the bodyguard now needs a bodyguard.
I am happy to stand by all my words and actions.

Kevin Webster   I-witness website

It’s all very sad; not just the BBC back down but also the fact that the combined weight of all Britain’s fraud agencies have so far been unable to present a coherent case. I am not guessing when I say many close to retiring people will have lost their life savings - and will soon become a burden on the state.

Richard Haughton

To remind you of the connection to Thailand – well Harlequin of course pre-sold a host of projects in Pattaya which never got built. Their final project Emerald Palace, taken over by Richard Haughton (MD of Harlequin (Thailand) , you know that former President of the Pattaya-Jomtien Rotary Club, was of course hawked to the Kasikorn Bank.

If you think there are some shenanigans going on with Harlequin in the Caribbean then you can expect the same here.  Now the company owning Emerald Palace has been taken over by, er, a law firm on the FCO - British Embassy list – who have been making buyers, several of them British of course, cough up more money.

Those that won’t have taken the matter to court and so far have refused to concede anything.

Incidentally after Harlequin went into submission the company issued the following statement:

 ‘Due to unfounded negative publicity in the public domain that has been instigated since 2011, the day-to-day UK sales business of Harlequin Property has become increasingly challenging, to the point that it is now almost impossible. Harlequin has always sought to manage its affairs professionally throughout this difficult time.’

Sound familiar. That's almost identical to a statement put out by the bosses of a Bangkok boiler room -while still claiming legitimacy - after police raids and complaints from investors.

So BBC please air that programme and please feel free to ignore that rude overweight bully from Essex. who boasts the following qualifications on LinkedIn but does not have a readily available CV dating back before 2005.

"I will make you disappear boy' -
The new 'Don't cross me'  look.
South African trained hard men
 with sharp-shooting and CS gas
 training now needed in the
retirement industry

Advanced/tactical driver
Unarmed combat/MMA
Level three NRA sharpshooter
PC832 for CS gas, PR24 side handle baton, handcuffs (RHPA)
Certified close protection (SIA PBA)
Anti Terrorist operations (SA)
Public Order and Riot Control (SA)
Special Weapons and Tactics (SA)
Armed entry and house penetration (SA)
Hostage and Rescue (SA)
Undercover/Surveillance (ATC & PBA)
Trauma First Aid/CPR (USA & SA)
Full First Aid at Work (HSE -11/12/12)
Electronic Countermeasures and Threat Analysis

These are the guys people in retirement homes businesses like Ames need nowadays I guess to deal with pensioners coming at him in their Zimmer frames.

AMERICAN 'PUBLISHER' OF PATTAYA TIMES WITHDRAWS LIBEL CHARGE AGAINST BRITISH JOURNALIST

(File Picture - Drew Noyes)

BUT COMPUTER CRIME CASE MUST BE CLEARED TOO

Former Pattaya Times publisher Drew Noyes has withdrawn a charge of libel against journalist Andrew Drummond, his lawyers told Pattaya Provincial Court today (Friday).

But he was further ordered to report back on July 8th to confirm that he had withdrawn an identical charge brought under the Computer Crimes Act.

Noyes,57, who announced in his newspaper that he had come to Thailand by Royal Proclamation, could face arrest for being in breach of a court order if he does not comply.

Noyes appeared in court on Tuesday together with his common-law wife Wanrapa Boonsu, pictured below, charged with the attempted extortion of Dr. Mike Goulet of the Thonglor Beauty and Health Clinic Jomtien.

Its alleged that he demanded 7 million baht, reduced to 2.3 million baht from Dr. Goulet or his premises would be raided by police and he would receive subsequent publicity in the Pattaya Times newspaper.

Dr. Goulet said he was frightened. A Scot former massage parlour owner in Melbourne, Australia, approached him at his clinic, said he had Chinese mafia friends, and told him his 'boss' Drew Noyes wanted to see him. 

“When Noyes called he said: ‘Come to my office and we can talk about the protection we can offer so your business can run smoothly." said Goulet.

That case was adjourned until August 14 2013.

Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu identified by Dr. Michael Goulet

BOILER ROOM BOYS MAY FEEL THE HEAT

THAI MAFIA 'WANT THE FOREIGN CAKE'

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary

('Round up the usual suspects')

They seem invincible. The foreign operators of boiler rooms (those illegal share trading rooms which con pensioners out of millions) have now taken over vast swathes of the night life industry in Bangkok and have always seemed like they cannot be touched.

They are known to the FBI, Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, the Australian Federal Police, Security Exchange Commission and very well known to the Crime Suppression Division and senior officers in Thonglor and Lumpini and of course the Immigration Police.

Foreign police forces keep raising the subject and occasionally there is a raid in some house along the Sukhumvit Road; but the young kids, and some not so young Bangkok roués, who are caught in the net, are fined and deported while the bosses stay put.

Invariably some kid rings me up in a fury. I had one recently who was arrested on his first day of work at a boiler room and later deported. He is in Malaysia desperately trying to see his Thai girlfriend, but he is blacklisted.  “I had no idea it was a boiler room. I want the boss arrested,” he said.

"By me?"

Little chance of that I am afraid, although his boss has been arrested in the United States, he is unlikely to be arrested in Thailand by the people who do that sort of thing.

There used to be a time when the BR guys looked after their arrested kids. They paid them off handsomely and many were back on the next plane. The mood has changed. Now the new recruits are under more pressure than ever to find punters quickly for the BR loaders. And that condo they were promised might turn out to be a shared room.

I, of course, know the identities of the major boiler room players in Bangkok. I know hundreds of victims. I can do little more than pass that information on to the relevant people. I have neither the resources nor armour to do much else. If Britain’s SOCA or City Fraud Squad can do nothing it’s too big a fish to fry for me I am afraid.

Steve Burt fled a Bangkok boiler room to
grass and was set up with drugs
and rape charges in Manila

The boiler room guys know me.

(Some of them even turned up to join the Optimists in Pattaya started by the well known Mr. Drew Noyes - the local branch of a do-good for kids type organisation - which was ended by the Optimists' HQ in the United States.)

They know I play with a straight bat. I have declined 'assistance', the first step on the road to hell. If I write what I want to I could end up on drugs and even rape charges.

One even rang me recently to complain of about the traffic in Sukhumvit Soi 11 - where a lot of boiler room money has gone.

'Can't you get someone in the Bangkok Post or Nation to write about it," he asked. "We have a a high class clientele who cannot get to our premises because of all the  *** food stalls!"

Irony is lost on these guys.

And its a bit difficult writing a story without naming the premises.

What these people have done to their enemies has been unpleasant.  Moreover, although the documentary evidence is there, the major players cover their tracks exceedingly well, though I guess hundreds of foreigners in Bangkok must know the names of at least three of them.

One of the bosses tells me he does not even have a bank account!

These boiler rooms have worked successfully under Thai Rak Thai, Democrat, and Phuea Thai coalition governments.

Current officials seem to love money more than ever – and one boiler room operator is married to a close relative of a former city Governor.

A very senior police general is also involved – that may be why international requests are treated with a smile and a wai – and the usual Claude Rains ‘Round up the usual suspects!’ action.

Two major international security companies seem to have every cough and spit on the major players in Bangkok - but it would be self defeating to have them arrested without securing the cash for their clients, which has been spread into projects worldwide.

To have them enter Thailand's judicial system might just spark a bidding war - with only officials gaining.

Interestingly enough the inevitable seems to have happened.  These guys have now earned too much money.

Sources are telling me, and these sources have been very good in the past, that they are pissing off Bangkok’s underworld figures who are seeing the Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

Unusually rich businessman
kidnapped in last 'boiler room' war.

The large swathes of businesses in Bangkok, Pattaya, and Phuket, and Singapore, and Hong Kong –  are places of entertainment where foreigners go, whether to have a bangers and mash, buy a prostitute,  or bop the night away.

It appears Thai underworld figures want a slice of the cake.

Just how that will end up it is difficult to see.  The four main boiler room guys, three Americans and a Brit are friends, well friends that piss each other off quite often.  Will there be a sacrificial lamb?

Hard to say. Perhaps their police friends could protect them.

If it gets nasty we could see kidnappings, ransom demands, and dare I say it, murder.

It won't be the first time. An unusually rich American businessman who said he was in 'oil' (but his well was dry) was kidnapped during the last boiler room wars in Bangkok. His kidnappers were rogue police. They were arrested - but the ransom demand which had been paid was not recovered.

What has been happening recently however is the relocation of a lot of boiler room minions to Chiang Mai and Jakarta. And Kuala Lumpur has a thriving boiler room crowd.

Here are some odd links. I cannot confirm or deny or even offer what they are. There are some interesting dj's here.  Here's an educational resource.

I WAS BROTHEL OWNER - ADMITS NOYES' AIDE!

-SO WHY DID FORMER PIMP DECEIVE A THAI  COURT?-

(David Hanks - The Age - Melbourne - picture)

So the respectable veneer has been removed from the newly scrubbed face of Scot David John Hanks. And today I can reveal how he deliberately misled a Thai court.

Drew Noyes, his so called boss, is not mafia as he was described in court. He is not that smart. He’s too small time. But he is a bully. His targets are the weak and elderly and vulnerable. And whether he and Hanks were working together operating an odious protection racket in Pattaya, as has been suggested in court, is neither here nor there.

The fact is that 'Babyface' Hanks WAS INDEED a pimp as he has been described on this site. This is not an allegation I would allow lightly. Currently he is suing me in a Pattaya court for calling him, or rather allowing a poster to this site to call him a pimp. For that I have to cough up Bt100,000 baht in bail on a complaint that should not have been allowed in the first place.

He has already given evidence. It is the evidence of a total stranger to the truth. When confronted in court with a website reference to  Masquerades in Keysborough, Melbourne, where he was named as the proprietor he shrugged it off.  David Hanks was a common name in Australia, he said. In other words he was saying: 'Prove it'. ...Schoolboy stuff. Well Hanks has to go back in the witness box.

Although my Thai lawyer was not on the ball that day – Hanks has been hoisted by his own petard.  His 'Prove it!' might have come from the playground of Girvan Academy - but it is not difficult to prove.

I already knew that Hanks was a pimp, not merely because he tells everyone.  I also checked his name as it appeared on internet listing for the owners of brothels in Melbourne which Hanks was shown in court.

Not only that when I checked with an Australian colleague who confirmed that in a story in the Age, Melbourne, and Sydney Morning Herald, the David Hanks they photographed admitted privately that he ran a sex business.

But that might have not been enough for a court of law. So I checked an email he had sent. Well it was not so much an email it was a Paypal donation of £10 which he directed me to give to an animal shelter.
It was a wheeze of course. The group of three, whom I have been exposing for some time, wanted to be able to expose me for keeping cash intended for an animal charity.

 I paid and the money was duly receipted. That did not stop them making the allegation. But I do not suppose any people believed it.

In making the donation Mr. Hanks gave his address in Melbourne – and of course it’s the exact same address as David John Hanks the owner of Masquerades brothel in Keysborough. And Hanks is not a common name in Australia at all.

From the Australian Securities and Investment Commission

There are not any others. And there is certainly no other David John Hanks with the birthday on 26th of March 1948.

And no others that look visually to be the exact same person who appeared in an article in the business sections of ‘The Age’ and ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.

Pimping is not against the law in Australia. There is no libel.

Was he selling ‘Asian Pussy’? Well that’s what the advert read. The Masquerades webpage has been hurriedly taken down. Hanks has now finally admitted he owned Masquerades, selling it to some Chinese last year.

Hanks finally admitted to me yesterday ('talking Scot to fellow Scot' ) that he DID own Masquerades. That’s not the point, he said, you have called me a ‘maeng dah’ that’s a big insult here. You have mentioned ‘Asian Pussy’ – that would be illegal to do in Australia on the grounds of racial discrimination.

"Why don't we come to am agreement that you lay off me?"

Hanks sold to the Huilin Wang and  Yi Ping Yu - from ASIC

I think the discrimination laws relate to people rather than parts of a woman’s anatomy. It would of course be illegal to discriminate against employing prostitutes on the grounds of race but not illegal to say that people of certain races are available in your brothel.

In court Hanks was indignant: “A pimp is someone who forces women to prostitute themselves for money”, he said with a frown and feined pain."

I have neither called him a ‘Maeng da’(Its not in my vocabulary but why would it be? I write in English)  nor wrote that he forced women to supply sexual services, but of course I have to continually put up with Drew Noyes’ lawyers seemingly deliberate mistranslations.

It is of course costing me a lot of money. No normal Thai could bare these libel laws on their salaries. So its no wonder it is difficult in this country to take on influential people. The libel laws are generally the sport of politicians.

But thanks to supporters here who have donated. I am scraping by – and the end is definitely in sight.

THE LIBEL  AND COMPUTER CRIME ACT COMPLAINT BY DREW WALTER NOYES AND DAVID JOHN HANKS

The Defendant owns a web site named http://andrew-drummond.com (Andrew Drummond) which is used to provide news to the general public.

On 4 September 2012, in daytime and successively to night time, the Defendant had the effrontery to commit several illegal offences in several occasions, that is, the Defendant, as owner of the web site mentioned above, allowed other person named “Elisha Saunders” to post libelous messages against both plaintiffs on his site by typing in English language that read "I have forwarded information regarding the alleged threats by Australian pimp, David Hanks, who specializes in 'Asian Hotties'."                                                           .  
Another message was also typed in English language that read "These pimps all like sticking together. So we have former 'Official Blowjobs' Duck Square pimp Drew Noyes, whose Mia Noi is from the infamous Buffalo Bar where you can bar fine women for as little as $10 a night, being defended by former Danish pimp Niels Colov and an Australian pimp whose brothel specialises in Asian Hotties.”

Masquerades formerly advertised 'Asian Hotties' -  'Way back when' visitors to masquerades.com.au now get a warning that if they  continue they will be infected with a virus

                                                                                .
The Defendant, as owner of the web site mentioned above, allowed other person to post the above messages with intention to make others or third parties who have read them to understand that the plaintiffs are bad guys, engaged in illegal businesses, and have long sustained their living on hardworking of whores until they became specialized in prostitution and owns a brothel called Asian Hotties, which is not true.

(No it does not. The comment establishes that both David Hanks and Niels were pimps, which is a matter of record government and court record. And evidence will be produced on Noyes' bar owning days. Hanks brothel was called Masquerades not Hotties. There is no suggestion it was called 'Hotties'.)

In actuality, the two plaintiffs have decent jobs and own several businesses both internationally and in Thailand, registered lawfully as legal persons with tax payments to the government in huge amounts each year.
Their businesses are well known to businessmen and the general public both in Thailand and internationally, being well trusted and recognized in the business circle.

(AD: Huge amounts? I believe the tax comment will be seriously challenged. We looking at tax records. However court records in Pattaya show serious complaints about Noyes' businesses. We will ask the plaintiffs to produce records of their international businesses)

The registered office of Noyes Realty

Masquerades -Keysborough

In addition, the plaintiffs dedicate their time in giving social contributions, either private or public, the evidence of which will be submitted by the first plaintiff to the court at trial stage, while the second plaintiff is evidenced in social contribution pictures and certificates and any other documents received due to his contributions to the society as a whole, as reflected in Exhibit 2.

(Will be challenged also)

Accordingly, the entire messages on the said web site of the Defendant are considered libelous and slandering to the two plaintiffs, in the form of computer data put in the web site or an online social network created above by the Defendant in order to inform, advertise and broadcast to its members or the general public who might have an access to such computer data of the Defendant in his site, who are considered third parties.

Subjecting the two plaintiffs to disrepute and becoming insulted and hated, such action also is a loading into the computer system computer data that is false and can be perceived by the third parties as an advertisement in documentary or alphabetical form, made visible by any means to broadcast in the Defendant's web site in such a way as to pillory and libel the plaintiffs many times, including consecutive messages thereafter.

The two plaintiffs have thereby been caused to suffer business reputation damage until losing credibility and confidence from businessmen, substantially affecting their company revenues and social causes i.e. when in a social function, the chairperson and attending guests were reluctant to greet and speak with them, and affecting their and their families' reputation as well.  Moreover, the two plaintiffs are looked down and loathed by businessmen, staff, Thai and foreign government officers, as well as the general public who knew, recognized and believed them.  (Complaint ends)

(It clearly has not occurred to Drew Noyes that publication of his arrest for extortion in Thailand's biggest national newspaper and also in the Nation newspaper may have something to do with his loss of reputation)

To see exactly the quality of people I am dealing with this is what Drew Walter Noyes wrote on the anti-Drummond website - www.andrew-drummond-blogspot.com

And finally while we have broached the subject of Drew Noyes' registered website's here is another one he registered but is yet to activate- now why would he do that?  

It was sent in by a reader and adds to a collection which also includes www.sextouristapp.com so there is no telling what business he is going to go into next.     

SCOT WAS 'MAFIA' AIDE IN THAILAND - COURT TOLD

PIMP FROM GIRVAN SCARED HEALTH CLINIC BOSS-

The Scottish SUN-

A former pupil of Girvan Academy, Ayr, was named in court in Thailand today as aide to a 'mafia boss' in the beach resort of Pattaya.

David Hanks, 65, was described as a man with Chinese mafia connections whose boss was an American called Drew Walter Noyes, currently on trial for extortion.

Mike Goulet the director of a health and beauty clinic in the resort told Pattaya Provincial Court: “I was scared for my business and my security” after being confronted at the clinic by Hanks.

Hanks, he said, had checked in at the clinic but had also seemingly come to announce that he was connected to the mafia, had been in the sex business in Melbourne, Australia, and that his boss wanted to meet with him.

But Noyes, then publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper, did not want to talk about advertising the Thonglor Clinic.

 “When Noyes called he said: ‘Come to my office and we can talk about the protection we can offer so your business can run smoothly.’
“David Hanks said things that scared me.”

Michael Goulet identifies the alleged extortionists Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu

Hanks formerly ran ‘Masquerades’ brothel in Bridge Road, Keysborough, a Melbourne suburb, but he sold it last year to a Chinese family then moved to Pattaya, Thailand, where he says he has gone into business in a company with Noyes’ common-law wife Wanrapa Boonsu.

Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu are both charged with extortion. They are also charged with fraud in a separate case.

They initially told Goulet that he would need to pay 7 million Thai baht (£143,546) – but later gave him a specially reduced offer of 2.3 million baht (£47,149), the court heard.

If he did not pay, said Goulet, his clinic would be raided by police and illegal medicines would be found.  The matter of course would also be reported in the newspaper the Pattaya Times.

Earlier the arresting police officer Captain Chuanchote described how police said up a sting operation to catch Noyes and Boonsu. They provided 100,000 Thai baht (£2,063) in a suitcase and told Goulet to say that it was a first instalment, he would have to wait sometime before making a large withdrawal from his bank.

Police listened in as Wanrapa Boonsu telephoned Goulet to tell him if the money was not forthcoming she could not stop the police raid.

Police lay in wait outside the News Restaurant in Pattaya and they pounced when Goulet handed over the cash.

 “Do you not know how much service this man has done for the community?"

Asked by Noyes’ lawyer: “Did not Hanks ask you about advertising in the Pattaya Times” Goulet replied: “There was no conversation with Hanks about advertising. He asked me to see his mafia boss.”

Then showing a pile of photographs of Drew Noyes, with Pattaya City officials, police and Crime Suppression Division officers and a member of the Thai Royal family, Noyes’ lawyer asked: “Do you not know how much service this man has done to the community? Mr. Goulet replied: “No. I had never heard of him before.”

Hanks and Noyes pose with Thai Generals at a local function

Hanks known as ‘Babyface’ emigrated to Australia from Girvan, Ayrshire in the late 70’s after his marriage broke up and had an expensive property in Narre Warren, Melbourne. He moved to Thailand and works alongside Noyes, a man with interests in Las Vegas, Nevada, together with two American’s Philip Venne and Jerry Weinerth, from Hawaii.

Noyes has been in Thailand for 15 years. He claimed in his newspaper that he came to the country to help Thailand out of the then Asian economic crisis. But he actually opened two beer bars in Pattaya instead. He started a legal company claiming to be an American lawyer, but he later had to withdraw that claim.

Comment: Mike Goulet is still under cross examination. Noyes lawyer is desperately trying to discredit both Mike Goulet and the Thonglor Clinic business. When I left he still had not left a dent in it. He has also been trying to suggest that the 100,000 baht was for advertising in the Pattaya Times - though its not often one has to meet a publisher in a restaurant with a stash of cash in a brief case to strike an advertising deal. This may soon become known as the van schaff defence.

 Goulet has been asked about a raid months earlier on a raid on the Thonglor Clinic in Bangkok which by all accounts was a police money grab attempt. As the Thonglor Clinic has all the appropriate licences and is inspected by authorities from Chonburi it has not received any damage in cross examination. 

The evidence about David Hanks and reference to Mafia ironically did not come out in evidence in chief but was teased out of Goulet by NOYES' OWN LAWYER

The funniest part though is Noyes having his lawyer question Goulet's qualifications. Goulet of French Canadian extraction received a doctorate as a vetinarian. As Noyes has put in all his photographs with famous people again - a standard procedure in all his cases he has left himself wide open to cross examination on that - plus all his awards, medals, Royal honors etc. Noyes appears to be on edge. 

He came out with a series of expletives as I was filming outside the court, grabbed my shoulder while Hanks grabbed my bag. He then called court security.

I put the camera back in the safety of my car and explained to court officials that NOYES was the defendant. I was merely a journalist carrying out my job. I was not photographing the court or in the court.
At the end of proceedings Noyes tried to box me in with his car. He failed. I am a bit of an old hand at car chases, blockings, putting your rivals in a ditch, having brought up in Fleet Street when they were a weekly occurrence.

He's no heavy, says Hanks' sister

THE DAMAGE DONE - DRUMMOND MUST PAY SAYS DREW NOYES

HE’S GOT TO GO TO TRIAL. IT’S STILL ON GOOGLE!

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PATTAYA PROVINCIAL COURT

The controversy about a picture published on the Facebook page of the mysterious Mangus Evans, who first appeared as a letter writer to the ‘Pattaya Times’ reached new heights in Court 6 of the Pattaya Provincial Court as Pattaya Times founder demanded British journalist Andrew Drummond stand trial.

Although it was not his case Noyes, 57, angrily stormed up to the bench and in a raised voice stated: “The damage is done. Drummond must stand trial. It’s all over the internet and copied on other sites”.

The controversial picture which was reproduced on www.andrew-drummond.com showed Niels Colov, CEO of the Pattaya People, pictured with career criminal Lonne Fristrup Jensen, under the caption: “Been to Jail”. Next to him was another picture of Drew Noyes under arrest with Wanrapa Boonsu for the attempted extortion of the Thonglor Clinic, Jomtien under the caption: “Going to Jail”.

The offending picture published by Mangus Evans. This of course does not represent the views of the author of this site

An identical case brought by Drew Noyes had been rejected by the court on the grounds that Drummond was merely doing his job as a journalist.

Drew Noyes’ lawyers pressed on with the case this time brought by Wanrapa Boonsu. This was accepted as Drummond was not in court to contest. He subsequently had to pay bail of 100,000 baht on two charges, criminal libel, and libel under the Computer Crimes Act.

However when the case came before the court again it was also pointed out that an identical case had been dismissed and the judge again pointed out to Ms Boonsu that Drummond was doing his job.

This picture of Noyes did no damage? (Thai Rath)

This is the spirit of the conversation but it is not a verbatim record.

Judge:Well Ms Wanrapa what do you want. 

Wanrapa: I want him to apologise in x newspapers and say the story is untrue? 

Judge: How can he do that? You are on trial for extortion. 

Drummond: “ I don’t even know this woman. I do not have a problem with her.  I could put a question mark in front of the headline if it makes her happy?” 

This was not agreed. (Mainly because it was lost in translation)

Drummond: Well I could take down the picture. No actually I could take down the whole story. It’s nothing in the scheme of things. 

Agreed.

After an adjournment Drummond returned to the court and showed that the story and picture had been removed. Having met with her husband she had changed her mind.

“Look! the picture is still here. It’s on Google,” she said.


Counsel for Drummond:"Its not on Andrew Drummond's website. He does not control Google".

Drew Noyes stormed in and began his heated soliloquy. At one point one of the Judges glancing at Noyes seemed to joke: “Going to jail. Nae non”.

Noyes had to leave for an appointment.

After a short break Wanrapa Boonsu after again being talked to by the judges said she would agree. But she said she needed to watch the site for two weeks to make sure it was not put up again.

Counsel for Drummond requested a shorter time. “He wants his bail money back. He has to pay his children’s school fees”.

 Granted.

Wanrapa Boonsu signed the agreement then Drew Noyes stormed back to the court.

 Outside he told Drummond: 

“It’s still on Google. I have instructed you how to get things off Google.”

Drummond: “You have? Don’t talk to me talk to the judge.” 

It was too late the court was closed.

As he left the court a furious Noyes said to Drummond: “Don’t ever buy a condo here!”

That was all agreed on May 21st which could not be reported until today.

Today at Pattaya Provincial Court Andrew Drummond having removed the offending picture from this site Wanrapa refused to withdraw the case stating that the picture was still on ‘Google’.

Drummond's counsel against lodged the statement: "Drummond cannot control Google".

It is still on Google and its now back up on site. I should of course point out that the views of the mysterious Mangus Evans are his not mine and that neither Drew Noyes or Wanrapa Boonsu have been convicted of the extortion of the Thonglor Clinic nor of defrauding Dutchman Theo Van der Schaff, etc.

WITHDRAW THE CASE OR I WILL SEND YOU TO JAIL! DREW NOYES TELL'S DUTCH SENIOR CITIZEN-

'IT'S MINE! - THE 2.5 MILLION WAS AN EXTRA CHARGE'

FOUNDER OF THE PATTAYA TIMES IN COURT AGAIN

Controversial Pattaya publisher Drew Noyes was the centre of an angry scene at Pattaya Provincial Court today after he told a Dutch businessman that if he did not withdraw a case against him he would send him to jail.

Drew Noyes, 57, founder of the Pattaya Times newspaper, who runs a business call One Stop Service, had approached Dutchman Theo van der Schaff and told him: ‘You know the money is mine, Theo. Withdraw the case or I will send you to jail.”

The Dutchman from Alsmeer, Holland, let rip with some Chaucerian adjectives which could be heard from within Court Number 6.

Inside the court lawyers for van der Schaff told the judge that their client had hired the services of Pappa Co. Ltd, Noyes’ forerunner to his ‘One Stop Service Center’ (American managed) to solve a problem with his former Thai girlfriend.

Theo van der schaff with his lawyer

He had commissioned PAPPA for over 400,000 baht which was to include fees for removing his property from his girlfriend’s name. He also sent Pappa Co 2.5 million baht to pay as compensation to the girlfriend. Noyes was instructed that negotiations with the woman should be done with tact and discretion.

In fact the woman was not offered the 2.5 million and she threatened to call the police on Noyes’ delegation.
Drew Noyes, 57, and his common law wife Wanrapa Boonsu denied the fraud charge claiming that the 2.5 million baht was an additional charge.

Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu at their arrest for extortion

Both defendants are currently on trial at Pattaya Provincial Court on a charge of attempting to extort the Thonglor Clinic, Jomtien, out of 2.3 million baht, on pain of a police raid and bad publicity in the Pattaya Times. The alleged take-down of Theo van der Schaff occurred while both were on 200,000 baht bail on the extortion charge.

Mr. van der schaff refused to mediate. The case was set for trial for August 28th.

DREW NOYES OUT ON BAIL AND OUT OF CONTROL

"I'M NOT ON THE RUN" SAYS CONVICTED SCOTS FRAUDSTER-

AND I'LL PROVE IT WITH MY MAGNIFYING GLASS

-Flying Sporran's Mid-Week Diary-

My apologies. I have been busy writing other stuff this week – which of course is sure to come to fruition here at some stage – dealing  with my favourite Pattaya Law companies – and on a treasure hunt.

Some of that time means spending long hours in dark rooms watching television screens. But the week has not been without its magic moments particularly with Drew Noyes founder of the Pattaya Times and now from One Stop Service Centre who stormed out of a court in Pattaya shouting to me: “Don’t you ever buy a condo in here!”

Actually I cannot write about the rest of this story until the weekend – but of course I am not going to buy a condo as it seems they are now building them as small as 21 square metres and calling them ‘luxury’ – and Drew’s council flats and government housing units do not appeal to me.

Brian Goudie - believes his own stories

I can however write about my second favourite fake lawyer though Brian Goudie jailed for six years in Australia for fraud under the name Goldie.  I met him in court in Pattaya. He has not been turning up for any cases against him but he has been turning up representing two foreigners who say they have been diddled out of condos in Pattaya.

I did ask his next victims if they had googled him and they said: ‘Yes’. So I left them to it as Goudie shouted back ‘have you googled Andrew Drummond!’

Goudie has been frantic on the worldwideweb this week trying, I think to discredit me. Having already put up where my daughter goes to school on the net (I have moved her now) he also this week published a picture of my office – well somewhere in the same building I guess.

Actually I have received writs from Goudie here.
Plushy Fleet Street offices? What planet is he on?  Near seedy Patpong?
Goudie's office the Jaggy Thistle or Paradise in Jomtien IS  a seedy district.

And as for the two punters he had in court he put up a story essentially saying – This is the story Andrew Drummond won’t publish. It’s of course about another property developer in Pattaya who has failed to deliver.

You betcha - Its going to me!

Now I have a couple of rules here. I do not normally get involved in these property stories unless I am asked to and it’s a bit better than the normal run of the mill stuff. Secondly if I did all the property scams they would take over this site and people would switch off in droves.

But I will write of course when these two latest victims find out the deal they did with Goudie is not quite what it seems.

Goudie has issued me two writs by the way. I guess he had to hire a lawyer to write them but they do not look like they were written by one. His own lawyer has gone AWOL.

According to his report I was bewildered. Actually Drew Noyes was there shouting "And I'll be
 your witness Brian" - The Thai national?  - Drew Noyes' wife. An identical case brought by
Noyes has been rejected. By several
Goudie means three and two are his! Five have been dismissed.

Drew: "I'll be your
witness Brian!".

“And you’re getting another writ from Alba Laws – and that’s going to cost you,” Goudie added.

Poor old Alba Laws. It’s been ejected from two addresses and has no lawyers.  It (he) needs cash and its going for my overdraft.

Anyway I look at the writs, one under criminal libel laws and one under the Computer Data Act (My opponents have got together and think this is a good wheeze).

It seems he is suing over a story I wrote in the Sunday Mail in Scotland. The story was not on the internet. But it was the paper's splash and spead for that week. So why is he not suing in Scotland where lawyers are eagerly awaiting his writs?

Ah but hang on, it is on the net, of sorts. He is suing over the photographs above and below which I used here. All you can read are the headlines and standfirsts which I do not write. And in any case newspapers like this do massive re-writing to fit their style.  His writ was accompanied by diagrams and arrow pointing to what the Scottish newspaper article said but nobody can read.

The spread in the Sunday Mail - I can only read the headings. Quite clearly not a lot under the kilt

So he's going to have to go to court with a magnifying glass, perhaps like the one on the right.

"Aye but your Lordship if you grab yon glass with yer right haund. Aye look ye can see he's called me an erse an ae glaekit bampot. An am urnay one."

Goudie’s latest frenzy follows the story I wrote about him trying to a flog marina development on Bang Kao Bay, Koh Samui. He had changed his name on Facebook to Brian Boru and he had a new floosie in tow to whom he is engaged called Neung.

His old floosie is a shareholder in his 'Jaggy Thistle'.

Now I had mentioned Neung, he said: " The gloves are off. You asked for it!"

Maybe the engagement is off. I do not know – but I got this letter from one of Goudie’s former  fiancées - after I told her he was suing.

Best wishes on the fight against the charges. What a nerve he has - he attacks you because you have the 'audacity' to uncover and expose his lies and crimes. When will he realise the game's up in Thailand, he has to move on to another nest since he's well and truly shat in that one!
Stay high and dry Andrew!

Earlier she had written:

“Keep up your good work Andrew, don't be intimidated (I am sure you won’t anyway) by this man who is all puffed-up bluff and big words.As verbose as he is, he is just a common crook, a thief, a con man, a liar and a non-payer of his debts.But may I say, in my opinion he genuinely believes his own myths, Andrew. And I think all this accusation and counter-accusation and trouble and strife in his life - is purely sport for him.This is what he does with his mind and his time. He thinks and conspires and then puts it out there as his truth - the game is on for him then - to try to outwit and outmanoeuvre and outlast (did that just sound like a Survivor trailer??). He relies on other people's incompetence, mistakes, fear or lack of persistence to get away with his dishonesty or crimes.And he has had the most amazing amount of luck in that way!This is how he has rarely been brought to account or justice for what he has done time and time again - he simply stalls, points the finger, befuddles and deflects the situation - buying himself time to get away and reinvent himself as some other preposterous persona!”

The thing is will Brian Goudie know which fiancee this was? I doubt it. They all think the same.

 My favourite Goudie story of the week however was the one in which he claims I am under investigation by Australian officials.

God know why anybody would want to go to the Australian Embassy for legal documents as Goudie claimed in the story that I did. Actually I merely stated that the Embassy could notarise the documents I already had!

My documents came from the Corrective Services and the Western Australia Court.

Well knock me down with a didgeridoo.  Wonder where I am going to do my time?  The Feds have got to be killing themselves.

Embassies as a rule do not comment on cases like this and would be very unlikely to comment to Goudie. They will however process a complaint as they have to. They are aware of  Goudie under his name  Brian Goldie. 

Nice pic of the Ambo though.



Treasure hunt?  Can't write about that either but it will be millions!

BRITISH CHILD ABUSE SUSPECT ARRESTED CAUGHT ‘STRANGLING BOY’ IN BUSHES!

BAILED AGAIN - CHILD ABUSE SUSPECT RAISES QUICK CASH

A British man arrested in Thailand on child sex abuse charges in February has been re-arrested again for attempted murder and bailed for a second time.

Andrew Tracy, 66,  from Wickford, Essex, was caught by a ‘have a go’ Brit who came across the incident while driving through Bang Saray, south of the eastern seaboard resort of Pattaya.

Tracy, its claimed, had a 13-year-old boy around the neck by a belt and was strangling him.

Formerly from Leytonstone, London,  Tracy was arrested by Police Region 2 Child & Protection Unit at his home in Bang Saray in Pattaya in February after complaints from child welfare officials and charged with abusing a boy under the age of 15. The latest assault incident involves police at Sattahip.

Have a go hero Lee Booty

Brit  Lee Booty, from Bethnal Green, East London, who made a citizen’s arrest, said:“I was driving in Bang Saray last night when I saw this guy dragged the boy off into the bushes. He had a belt around the boy’s neck and was strangling with him.

“I stopped my car and gave chase and he let the boy go and rushed to his own car. I also called some building workers on site to come over and be witnesses.

“I screamed at this guy. 'Did the boys’ parents know they were together?'You pervert!' The guy rushed off in his car but he was arrested at his home nearby. I went along to the police station to give a statement and was there for hours. Two other boys were were brought in. 

“When I left police were releasing this man at the same time. I was told he had paid 200-300,000 baht bail. I do not know what is going on here.

 “It appears the boys had been given mobile phones so he could make appointments.

“The guy complained the kid had stolen his mobile phone but other kids came to the police station.”

 Mr. Booty, Director of Achievers Property in Pattaya, said he hoped the case would be monitored.

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Andrew Tracy should not be confused with Ian Charles Tracy, 47, also from London, who was arrested at the home of his ‘legal advisor’ Briton Brian Goudie, or Brian Goldie, in the Jomtien Complex last August.

Ian Tracy gives the finger while Goudie remains in the background

In a law suit being brought in Pattaya  by an American woman Elizabeth Fanelli Miller, of Madison, Wisconsin, it is alleged that Tracy was used by Goudie to find clients in Nong Plalai Prison, Pattaya. She subsequenty handed over, she said, US$300,000 for the release of her son Greg Miller, a teacher at an international school on Thailand's eastern seaboard. Her son never came back - nor did her cash.

Ian Tracy, who was also Goudie's client is ideally suited to find customers for Alba Laws as he is now serving four years for child abuse in the prison. However it is understood client and lawyer are no longer talking.

Brian Goudie, from Falkirk, Scotland, was jailed for six year in Australia for fraud, when he was then known as Brian Goldie. He is currently representing Britons in Pattaya who say they have been cheated over condominium purchases.

CORRECTION: An earlier report carried a misidentification of Tracy with Carl Josef Ruppel (both of whom have grey hair and glasses but totally different physiques and who were both arrested on the same day in February on child sex abuse offences. ) Apologies to readers.