INVESTOR STARTS LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST BRIT IN THAI SEX INDUSTRY WHO ‘COVETED’ HIS FORTUNE

‘IT’S PAYBACK TIME!’

A Canadian investor, who lost over US$450,00 after being offered a ‘sure fire’ investment in the Thai sex trade has returned to counter-sue the self-promoting British ‘global entrepreneur’ who, he claims, swindled him out of his fortune.

Former millionaire Adam Howell, 43, from Saanichton, British Columbia, attended Pattaya Court last Friday, to fight back against Bryan Flowers, a former electrician from Coventry, West Midlands.

Once there, after posing for a photo, he lodged the first in a series of actions planned, he says, to bring the Brit to justice.

Flowers is the boss of the Night Wish Group, which runs some 30 bar-brothels mostly in Pattaya Soi 6 redlight area of the Thai resort city under Thai nominees.  He also owned Pattaya News group of online newspapers through his Thai wife for protection, or as he put it ‘So I have a weapon.’

For four years after investing his fortune in the Night Wish Group Howell said he had to survive rent-free in a small roo0m, eating street food bought from pocket money given by friends. But now, after an amazing recovery, he has returned with the assistance of lawyers from Bangkok to fight back and to repay the friends who supported him.

Flowers skips back to the U.K.

Flowers, meanwhile, returned to the United Kingdom in June, just three days before a court judgment was due to be read to his wife Punnipa, and three members of his staff at the Flirt Bar in Pattaya, on human trafficking and under-aged sex trafficking charges.

But tonight he is due to  host a meeting of his Bangkok Wantrepreneurs & Investors at the Margarita Storm on the corner of Sukhumvit 13, in Bangkok.

From the U.K Flowers had announced a plan to create a new polo club in Pattaya (perhaps this proposed one) to rival the Thai Polo Club in Pattaya – and on one website claims he already has a polo club which ‘represents his philosophy of balance — combining intensity with elegance, business with passion, and ambition with peace of mind.’

Howell, who made his money in Bitcoin and marketing, had invested most of his savings in the Night Wish Group in 2017 after being befriended by Flowers and going along with him to meetings of foreign ‘entrepreneurs’ in Bangkok and Pattaya.

Welcoming Party

The cash enabled Flowers to invest in a mansion and two matching white Mercedes’ for himself and his wife Punnipa, and buy leases to 12 new bars.

But after committing his cash to Howell to seven bank accounts set up by Punippawas shocked at the shabby operation. At his welcoming party he said he was thrust into a ‘short time’ room above one of Flowers’ bars where three young naked Thai women were waiting. He declined the offer.

The Night Wish Group was under the sole control of Flowers with an Australian called Scott Schulz running day to day operations. Howell claims Schulz, swindled him out of another 100,000 Euros in a Bitcoin fraud, while hanging out with him.

Bitcoin Fraud

And when he belatedly did his research, he discovered that Schulz was the Managing Director of a Bitcoin fraud – the New Dawn Fund – which had taken people down for hundreds of thousands before the Australian Securities Exchange issued a final stop order.

When he complained, claims Howell, discovered he was being ostracised.

After Covid 19 when dividends of 80,000 baht a week (320,000 a month – almost US$10,000) resumed, payments were made to other investors but remained blocked to Howell after he put out internet warnings on another Bitcoin scam in progress.

Poverty

Then began his four-year battle with poverty and Flowers.

He complained to police about the Bitcoin fraud, the Night Wish Group fraud, and when in 2023 Flowers’ Flirt Bar was raided for sex trafficking, he knew he had vital information implicating the group.

But, while Pattaya police had congratulated him on his ‘bravery’ and said they were investigating, nothing happened.

The Pattaya Police did not take a neutral stance. This was to be expected. All owners running bars employing sex-workers paid their monthly dues. Prostitution is against the law in Thailand, but the government takes a blind eye. This does not apply to Pattaya alone.

But, in Pattaya especially, it provided huge sums to police coffers. Payment of monthly dues ensured that their businesses did not ‘suffer a misfortune’. Flowers was especially protected. Not only did he take advantage of the fact that the bars in Pattaya Soi 6 had rooms for sex, but he also cashed on it buying the leases of as many bars as he could.

Payments also ensured that he could illegally employ foreigners mainly Britons, as bar managers; have sex rooms above the bars, and he boasted that he could even have girls for Laos thanks to his relationship with the local immigration police.

In desperation Howell reached out to other foreign investors to tell them what was going on. They did not want to help. They were getting their dividends.

But when he contacted Nick Dean, a Pattaya Vlogger and business partner of Flowers, who had become unusually rich, he turned up the heat.

Even though Dean had publicly declared on another Vlog* that his videos barely paid for his health insurance, he was now in partnership with Flowers in a hotel and LED signage company. And he had bought leases on six bars in Pattaya S0i 7.

Howell complained to Dean about Flowers’ sex-trafficking and gave Dean a secret link to a video he had made and hidden on YouTube, but ready to post publicly, making the accusations. Dean promptly passed it on to Flowers, who took libel cases against Flowers in Pattaya Court.

That’s when this website became involved. After publishing a story about the forthcoming libel case, we were contacted by Howell who unloaded his files. A key element was a five year continuous Messenger thread between Howell’s and Flowers begun in 2017.

Coupled with Flowers’ own public admissions (now cut from the net but kept in our files) the files described an operation not run by a man who ‘is a philosopher of modern entrepreneurship. His mantra — “Don’t outsource your children” — speaks to his belief in presence, integrity, and values-driven leadership.” (source: Washington Mail, written by Flowers).

In fact, Flowers was outsourcing other people’s children. There was nothing legal about the Night Wish Group. It was a clandestine organisation with signage. It existed and promoted itself but had been dissolved as a company. All his bars were put in the hands of Thai nominees found by his wife.

All the cash was collected nightly, and the accounts were done centrally by NWG which presented them to tax authorities in the name of each bar so that each bar was below a certain tax threshold.

The US$100,000 a month paid to investors was not declared as such and other monies could be taken out of the country to invest in such countries as Argentina, China, and Pakistan.

Flowers currently boasts of his global investments in many websites created to hide negative publicity.

Meanwhile documentation showed how new Thai women arrivals to his business were shared around his investors and senior staff before being put to work on their backs from the bars and these included recorded incidents of Flowers offering investors to ‘bang a virgin’ or ‘fill a 17-year-old with sperm.’ When they were published on this site Flowers issued DMCAs (copyright claiming notices) thereby admitting he was the author.

Penniless, unable to defend himself, and not even able to fly home, things did not look good for Howell. But in July this year three employees of Flowers, a British manager and two Thai cashiers, at the Flirt Bar were jailed for 21 years each for offences of human trafficking and trafficking a 16-year-old into prostitution.

Flowers, the real boss, was untouched and Punippa, who was ruled to be the owner (her brother was listed as the owner but receipts showed all the cash went to her bank account) escaped the serious trafficking charges.

Instead, she was found guilty of running an illegal sex operation and jailed for three years – but at once released on bail to appeal.

Flowers had boasted on video that his name was not on any ownership papers as he did not want to go to jail, but he ran the Night Wish Groups on Facebook including the recruitment group.

He may have seen it as a win. His staff were disposable. In fact, he was happy to get rid of the cashier ‘Kwang’, Jaranya Keepair, whom he accused of being the ‘biggest rat’ because she spoke freely and truthfully to ATIP (Anti-Trafficking in Persons Police).

And in a ‘Memorandum to Investors’ he had told them it had cost him 11.5 million baht to ‘down corrupt police’, but his team ‘would appreciate a thank you’ for getting the Night Wish Group off trafficking charges and other stuff. (the phony company was in the clear, but not the staff) However, he was  either lying, or hedging his bets, because this did not stop Flowers’ leaving the country before the verdicts were announced.

Flowers and his wife, however really began to unravel in their libel cases against Howell when they had to admit the open secret that they owned the Night Wish Group and were the subjects of the video accusing them of sex trafficking.

First Flowers, then his wife, then two other witnesses Nick Dean and the NWG photographer Fernando Bauab Levy,  described how ‘many people’ had come up to them and told them how shocked they had been when they saw the video. Flowers even testified that he had to take his children out of private school because of the bullying.

The case fell apart when evidence from YouTube proved that the video in question was up on YouTube but marked ‘unlisted’. That meant that nobody who did not have the URL (more complicated than the average password) could have seen it.

But the video had nearly 10,000 views! And most of them came from Russia and lasted under 7 seconds! Not long enough to see any libel. So, who had the URL? Only Flowers and Dean!

And who was the only person who posted the ‘libelous’ video URL on the net? Bryan Flowers himself in blogs he has since taken down. The ‘neutral witnesses’ had clearly deliberately lied to the court.  Dean went further than most claiming that when he saw the video it was definitely in public review. He was something on an expert on YouTube, he claimed. This claim could easily be trashed with evidence from YouTube.

Howell had ditched his Pattaya lawyer, whose only advice was to ‘Deny! Deny! Deny!’ and brought in a team I recommended from Bangkok. The prosecution was trashed. Howell frankly admitted creating the film, but was found not guilty of public libel.

Instead he was found guilty of libelling Flowers and his wife to Nick Dean. Nick Dean and Flowers are thick as thieves. There is no evidence that Dean thought any less of Flowers by seeing the video. They continue in business together.

And that’s why Howell was in court on Friday. He is appealing the secondary verdict as a prelude to a series of cases currently being prepared in Bangkok.

I do not have those details, but there are clearly grounds to support charges of perjury, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice – and that’s before they delve into the alleged frauds, nominees, and potential organised crime charges.

The last I heard of Flowers, he was drafting glowing stories about himself and paying them to be inserted in the Washington Mail and other online sites with names like reputable newspapers. He was also updating adultworld.ai his worldwide prostitution website.

Flowers has not appealed the Howell not guilty verdict. Instead he has curiously written to the court to seemingly complain why Howell had left the country. This is very strange because that case is finished. Howell paid an 18.000 baht (US$562) fine and has lodged an appeal. Subsequently why could he not leave the country? I do not think the court will like his messaging.

Perhaps Flowers is mindful of the last dodgy ‘newsman’ from Pattaya. American  Drew Walter Noyes, the Editor of the Pattaya Times, and fake lawyer exposed regularly on this site was convicted and sentenced to 3 years jail for exortion. While on bail appealing, he appled to the Pattaya Court to leave to attend an urgent family matter in the U.S. and left the country never to return.