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Andrew Drummond

February 2014

OVER 100 BOILER ROOM ARRESTS IN SPAIN – BUT THAILAND ‘HOSTILE’

OVER 100 ‘WOLVES OF WALL STREET DOWN’ – 13 BOILER ROOMS TERMINATED Aston Martin seized in Spain With over 100 people arrested in swoops on ‘boiler rooms operators’  in Spain and Britain yesterday detectives of Britain’s City Fraud Squad were quoted in respect of Thailand saying it was a ‘hostile environment’. Newspapers are now referring […]

NOT GUILTY – ANIMAL RESCUE WORKERS CLEARED 2 YEARS AFTER ‘BRUTAL’ RAID

WILDLIFE FRIENDS FOUNDATION BOSS AND WIFE CLEARED OF WILD CHARGES The Appeal Court today cleared Edwin Wiek, Jansaeng Sangnanork, and the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) on charges of illegal wildlife possesion and other crimes after they were arrested in what they describe as a ‘brutal raid’  that lasted almost 10 days in February 2012. […]

REPORT – OVER 1.7 MILLION MIGRANT WORKERS CHEATED

CHEATING IS SYSTEMATIC AND ALL ENCOMPASSING IN “CORRUPTION FEST” Battling British workers’ rights crusader Andy Hall has gone head on with Thailand with a report which accuses Thai officials, agents, and employers, of systematically shaking down Myanmar (Burmese) workers for cash. A report which he has presented through the Migrant Workers Rights Network accuses Thais […]

PHUKET TRIATHLON ORGANISERS ACCUSED OF RACISM

WOULD YOU DO THIS IN GERMANY? – ORGANISERS ASKED It takes a special type of person to take part in a Triathlon; guts, strength, determination, fortitude, willpower and cash, yes – cash.  The bikes used in these swimming, running and cycling events cost upwards of 200,000 baht – £3,500! In the biggest triathlon event in […]

I’VE BEEN HACKED AGAIN SAYS PHONEY LAWYER-

Having failed to offer up the former ‘Jaggie Thistle’ pub and guesthouse in Jomtien on Thailand’s eastern seaboard to buy himself off criminal charges for fraud, fake lawyer Brian Goudie has lost an entire month’s worth of entries from his internet Blogspot devoted to attacking this site. This will not be an act of contrition, […]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS – THE EMERALD PALACE SCAM TAKES A NEW TURN-

COURT KNOWS HOW COMPANIES WERE JUGGLED The Emerald Palace Property scam in Pattaya which was first exposed on this website is coming to a close.  Property buyers from Britain and other countries have been getting possession of their properties. What’s more the Thai Courts have been ruling that the buyers should either get all their […]

TV TOUGH GUY TOPPLES FROM TUK TUK

PRODUCTION IN ‘A MESS’ – BUT THE SHOW IS GOING ON- ‘Strike Back’ tough guy Sullivan Stapleton has been injured in a late night incident in Thailand after falling out of a three wheeled taxi – known locally as a ‘tuk tuk’. The Australian born actor ,who plays joint lead in the Sky TV  series […]

JUDGE SAID THERE WAS COMPOUNDABLE OFFENCE AGAINST GOUDIE-

AND ALSO NAMES HIM AS GOLDIE! A judgment in the Pattaya Criminal Court last week names fake lawyer Brian Goudie, also as Brian Goldie, and records the fact that judges were of the opinion that the case against him was a ‘compoundable offence’ In a case brought by Briton John Jepson against Goudie, who under […]

So that’s where Bangkok’s foreign money men can be found at 3.30am (UPDATED 27-2-2014)

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Police in Bangkok are apparently looking for a camera shy American who made an unprovoked attack on a customer at the Corner Bar in the non p.c. Soi Cowboy. ‘Fantastic cowboy road?’ The alleged attacker, an American, was caught on CCTV in the music bar, which is, well of course at […]

THAILAND’S DEMOS TURN INTO DEADLY WAR ON CHILDREN-

TRAGEDY AS KIDS BECOME THE VICTIMS OF THAILAND TURMOIL Two children were killed and three others children seriously injured in separate attacks on anti-government demonstrations in Thailand over the last 24 hours. In the first incident late Saturday in Trat Province near the Cambodia a five-year-old girl was killed and 30 adults injured when gunman […]