AN AUSTRALIAN JUDGE SAID HIS TRAIL COULD BE FOLLOWED ON A MOONLESS NIGHT – BUT THEIR IMMIGRATION OFFICERS FLUNKED IT. NOW THE THAI AUTHORITIES ARE BEING ASKED TO PICK UP ‘THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE’. Convicted fraudster Brian Goudie failed to turn up to prosecute British journalist Andrew Drummond in Koh Samui today despite boasting on the […]
AN INCREDIBLE TALE OF LIES, DECEIT, FRAUD, AND FANTASY IN THAILAND Former Ulster godfather Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday, perhaps one of the meanest drugs traffickers Northern Ireland has produced, managed to get some of his ill-gotten gains to Thailand, despite a British court order seizing his assets as the proceeds of crime. But Halliday could not […]
‘Bugger a paedophile’ – a Phnom Penh children’s charity slogan Under the headline ‘Dodge City’ Phnom Penh – the capital of Cambodia and the favourite bolt hole for foreign ‘refugees’ from Thailand – has taken a bashing in the Sydney Morning Herald – or at least some foreigners there have. Steve Morrish Reading a lengthy […]
WE ARE CLEANING UP FOREIGN SCAMMERS TOO! (Updated) People are being approached to invest in mango orchards in Thailand on the basis of the more you invest the more profit you get out of the crop. The company concerned, Irrigation Technology Solutions, promises that its special ‘Approtech’ technology will produce high yields of up to 350 […]
(Brian Goudie shows he has a second passport. Healternates passports every time he enters or leavesThailand) WHO WILL RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT JOURNALIST? Runaway Scotsman Brian Goudie furiously blogged “I’m innocent” from hiding yesterday but remained reluctant to let a court decide. He has yet to face a court to tell judges so. In […]
Fake barrister Brian Goudie went truly on the run yesterday after not unexpectedly failing, despite his promise, to surrender to bail for defrauding an American woman out of US$300,000. In a day fraught with angst for the 47-year-old con man from Falkirk, Scotland, who has been posing in Thailand as a barrister and former officer […]
GOUDIE LURKS IN SHADOWS AS MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HIS CHEATING LEGAL COMPANY IS TAKEN TO JAIL A Thai woman whom Scots con man Brian Goudie appointed Managing Director of his pseudo legal company Alba Laws was today taken into custody after she failed to meet the bail requirements demanded by Pattaya Provincial Court. As expected […]
FROM HIDING BRIAN GOUDIE SAYS HE WOULD LIKE TO SAVE HIS THAI PARTNER – ‘BUT I JUST DON’T HAVE THE CASH’ – SO NOMINEE MANAGING DIRECTOR* MAY HAVE TO GO TO JAIL! (David Hanks and Brian Goudie with their Thai counsel) A fugitive Scot, who posed as a lawyer and a former officer of the […]
PARLIAMENT PUBLISHES COMPLAINTS ONLINE. A British House of Commons Select Committee which is seeking views on how Britons get consular assistance abroad has received a number of complaints relating to Thailand – in excess at the moment of those from Spain – still Britain’s favourite holiday destination. The principal complainants are relatives of the victims […]
THAIVISA.COM ENTERS THE PROPERTY BUSINESS WITH ONE OF THEIR PARTY OFFERS! One of the main problems many foreigners are unaware of when buying homes and houses in Thailand is that the country turns a blind eye to the activities of foreign property developers and real estate agents. Legally of course foreigners should not be in […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.