FRAUD EXPOSED IN BRITISH RUN MEAT-GRINDER PROSTITUTION RACKET IN THAILAND

BRITON BRYAN FLOWERS OFFERED THREE NAKED THAI WOMEN TO NEW INVESTOR

The US$450,000 investor said ‘No’ – But he was going to get screwed anyway because the:

NIGHT WISH GROUP WAS A COVER FOR FRAUD

THE NIGHTWISH FILES – PART ONE

An investor in a British run ‘company’ in Thailand called ‘The Night Wish Group’  got a shock at a reception to welcome him to his new band of brothers. He was put in a bedroom with three young and naked Thai women and told to get on with it.

Waiting for him downstairs, he said, were the two Night Wish bosses, Briton, Bryan Flowers and Australian Scott Schulz. 

Ostensibly Flowers was a media mogul, the controller of loss-making online newspapers in Thailand – the Bangkok News, Pattaya News, and Phuket Express.

But that was because, as he admitted in a in a Youtube video, “I wanted a clean business to hide behind and I wanted to have a weapon because one day if someone high up wanted to create me a problem, I’m protected. I try to do everything as legal as possible, obviously we are illegal in the bars..”

His real money making business was selling Thai women to foreign tourists in the Thai resort of Pattaya through some thirty, officially illegal,  ‘short-time’ bars in a downmarket red light street called ‘Soi 6’. His ‘Managing Editor’, Adam Judd, was formerly one of his sex bar managers there.

His business ran as a meat grinder needing new sex workers on a daily basis with a drop-out rate of 57 per cent per month.

Adam Howell, 43, from Saanichton, British Columbia, had been lured into putting nearly US$500,000 into the business by its controller Flowers, after months of attending meetings of ‘Foreign Entrepreneurs’ in the Thai resort of Pattaya and the capital Bangkok.

(1.12) ““I wanted a clean business to hide behind and I wanted to have a weapon because one day if someone high up wanted to create me a problem, I’m protected. I try to do everything as legal as possible, obviously we are illegal in the bars..”

Howell said: “All the people we met described Bryan Flowers as a great businessman. He also had a positive internet presence. And after about six months I was convinced to invest and sent just over US$450,000, which was converted from BitCoin at the December 2017 exchange rate, accepted as 15 million baht and deposited into seven banks which Flowers had told his wife to create to receive the money.

To Adam Howell and other investors it seemed like a sweetheart deal for a ‘league of gentleman’ (even though Flowers’ ‘great businessman’ reputation was generated on his numerous websites.)

Their deposits, they were promised, would be safe, and all investors investors would get paid 320,000 baht a month (just under US$10,000) which would rise as the ‘company expanded. It was money they would never have to declare to any taxman. That money would be paid in weekly instalments of 80,000 baht in cash – paid out in eighty one-thousand-baht notes. They never had to work again.

After sending the money, Howell got this welcoming message from Bryan Flowers

But Flowers’ offer was too good to be true. After watching Howell being cleaned out of another US$111,870 in an in-house crypto-scam Flowers:

CANCELLED HIS DIVIDENDS

KEPT HIS INVESTMENT

And, when Howell begged for money to save his dying dog ‘Fufu’. 

Flowers said:

‘NIGHT WISH IS NOT AN ATM!’

The League of Gentlemen was more of a band of thieves. The lack of any ‘class’ about his initiation to Night Wish should have given him a hint that something was not quite right, let alone the nature of the business. They had in fact signed up to an ‘Organised Crime Group’ (OGC).

‘Tony’s not here for the money’

Howell continued:

“When I got to the bar for my party I was taken into an upstairs room where there were three Thai naked girls. I was told ‘This is your welcoming present’. I’m not a prude, but I broke into a sweat. I can’t do that sort of thing to order. I had bought a girl out from a bar before, but this was completely different. There was no pretense of  a relationship – just go on and do it!

“I went downstairs and rejoined Bryan, and his deputy Scott Schulz. Scott called Tony Baker, the manager of  ‘Toy Box’, one of the Night Wish bars across the road and told him ‘There’s a problem here upstairs. Sort it out.’ Tony Baker came over, went upstairs, and came back down about an hour later. ‘Tony’s not here for the money,’ said Scott.”

“At that time I was the biggest investor Flowers had ever had. I saw quickly that with the money he had acquired matching white Mercedes’ for himself and his wife – and he and his wife moved into a mansion in a fancy estate called Paradise Villas. He then went on a spree buying bar leases.

Flowers’s first mansion in Paradise Villas 1, Pattaya

“From then on I had less personal connection with Flowers, apart from the ‘entrepreneur meetings’, and endless Facebook messages from him, which mainly consisted of ladyboy porn, and vile stuff that is banned on porn channels. I saw a side of him which he had never revealed. I hung out with Scott Schulz (NWG Chief Operating Officer), quite often at his place together smoking marijuana (now legal in Thailand) and working on online businesses. We became, I thought, great mates.

“Looking back now I realise how naive I had been. Everything had been done on a handshake.

“All the outside investors had handed over their money on handshakes too. Bryan had built up this reputation as the man to trust. He dished out financial advice on his You Tube channel to newbies to Pattaya, and they all lapped it up. We lapped it up.

“I had never had any investments before except in crypto, but I had travelled around the world and successfully lived off my earnings by designing Apps for mobile phones and affiliate marketing. I was one of the earliest block chain innovators that launched one of the first 100 or so crypto-currencies ever made. That was DopeCoin in 2014 which went from US$40,000 to over US25 million in late 2017.”

 

 Fox TV report on Dopecoin.

Meanwhile, his friendship with Scott Schulz was turning into a business one. Schulz had persuaded him to invest in a ‘surefire’ Bitcoin launch, which he was operating with a colleague, another Australian, Robin Dey, who was kicking around Thailand looking for investors, and living off, it is now known, the victims of a previous scam. 

“I had been asked four or five times and every time I had replied ‘No, No. No.’ 

“Then they called me jubilantly saying they had a firm deal. They had secured an official partnership with the Malta Stock Exchange and had raised a million dollars seed money overnight – but because I was their friend, they could still get me in.”

The ‘surefire’ deal was the Malta Digital Exchange – MDX Bitcoin, and Howell was finally persuaded to invest €100,000 (euros).

But there was no tie up with the Malta Stock Exchange There there was no million dollar seed money. Howell was the first ‘seed’ investor and he never saw his money again. 

Then Grant Corrin, who had become a close friend,  looked at the documents and found additional fraud. The initial digital launch PPM (Private Placement Memorandum) or offer had been switched for s second one. In the new PPM the value of the offer had been redued by 97.6%!  It had been a complete scam. Even if it had not failed, he still would not have got any money. 

Schulz did not cut the profile of the average member of the financial services industry. But suited and booted on the net he could present himself as a respectable financial businessman – except, he was not respectable.

The year before he was the Managing Director of the New Dawn Fund, a Bitcoin launch carried out while he was at Night Wish, which was the subject of a stop order by the Australian Securities & Investment Commission. 

Schulz as Managing Director of the New Dawn Fund and Robin Dey as ‘Director’. But titles seemed interchangeable. Both at one stage were Managing Directoir of Lendefi.

The reasons ASIC put at stop order on the New Dawn Fund were due to (1) the use of misleading or deceptive statements in sales and marketing materials, (2) operating an illegal unregistered managed investment scheme (MIS), and (3) not holding an Australian financial services licence. In short- they were shysters.

‘A great cloud of shame’

Howell was furious. He complained to Flowers, wondering what sort of business business people he associated with. Flowers did nothing. He refused to get involved. He complained to Schulz. Again nothing happened. But after a while he got a grovelling letter of apology, which Grant Corrin had persuaded him to write in the interests of harmoney at Night Wish. Corrin was Flowers’ business advisor.

But, when Schulz and Dey started another Bitcoin scam called Lendefi, Adam Howell was not going let them get away with it. He put out BitCoin scam warnings about Lendefi. And Flowers was furious, telling Howell, through his general manager Vagellis Poulios to stop interfering in Schulz’s Bitcoin operations.

Howell had researched Robin Dey and found out that he had got his business skills from a degree course he did while he was in prison serving 10 years for ‘manslaughter’.

The killing was over Dey’s Australian girlfriend called Sarah Kell. Together with her brother, Simon Kell, the two men had beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed to death Sarah Kell’s former boyfriend. David Shepherd, 36, in Ashwood, Victoria in 2007. They were jailed at Victoria Supreme Court for manslaughter, after denying murder charges. 

In the continuing row the principal officers of MDX were all sent legal letters demanding compensation.

‘I know where you live’

Robin Dey in turn began a campaign of harassment against Adam Howell through his social media – Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram.

“Dey sent multiple messages saying that he is going giving me “48 hours to contact him and “come to a resolution” (whatever that meant?) or he is going to have me“arrested and sent to jail in Thailand” because of some (fabricated) claim of defamation of him and his businesses,” said Howell.

“He accused me of “being a criminal” and sent screenshots of the geolocation of where I lived. Included were menacing messages suggesting the Thai authorities are going to pick me up the to be sent to a remand centre in Bangkok. Apparently then a deportation to Canada would occur.

“Included within the bizarre messages were links to news stories and pictures of foreigners being arrested in Thailand, with a Canadian Airline plane flying back to Canada.”

Then in Flower’s mansion, Grant Corrin, Adam Howell, Bryan Flowers and Punippa Flowers were all together when Adam Howell took a call from Robin Dey and put it on speaker phone. It was a call from a gangster. He repeated his threats.

 

(above Robin Dey)

Flowers listened looking slighty uncomfortable.  But he made no comment. Yet he states that it’s one of his life’s aims is to save people from scammers. In fact it’s the lead on one of the ubiquitous webpages he wrote in his own honour.

Howell told Flowers that he would have to make a police complaint. Then Flowers, surprisingly, said he would help.  He said he would even supply his own policeman, ‘Robert’, to assist him and translate at Pattaya police station.

‘Robert’ was a  CIB Police Lieutenant (Crime Investigation Bureau) called Niphon Phothalay, who lived locally, and acted as a go-between with a number of agencies.

‘We waited 50 minutes in the police station, then we were only about ten minutes making a statement. I did not understand a thing, only what Robert translated to me,’ said Adam.

Subsequent examination of the complaint shows insufficient information for an investigation to be started into any of the Bitcoin scammers. No complaint was made against Schulz at all, only Robin Dey, who by now had fled to India, and was involved in a Hemp investment scam.

Most sex workers quit within a month

Meanwhile Howell had also found out that the Night Wish Group was no longer a registered company. It had no registered office.  It had been liquidated while Flowers’ was in the middle of persuading him to invest back in October 2017. Howell, knew it ran as a ‘League of Gentleman’ getting together in Facebook groups for meetings. – but had assumed there was a company structure.

 

 

There were Facebook Group meetings on ‘ NWG Weekly Cash Earnings;’ ‘NWG Reputation;’ and ‘NWG Recruitment Group’. The latter group was dedicated to finding sex workers from the provinces and trying to reduce the high-turn over rate of over 4,000 a year – with 57 per cent quitting within the first month.  If any went off permanently with a foreigner Flowers charged the foreigner 15,000. Sometimes the bar manager added 5000 baht on top. making it 20,000 or US$600.

But all this was confirmation there was nothing legal at all in its structure. The company’s minutes were Facebook posts. The bars, were all in the hands of Thai nominees, who never saw the bars, and were given a monthly stipend for their trouble. What, thought Howell, would happen if he asked to withdraw his ‘shareholding’. What could he do if Flowers stopped handing out money to shareholders?

 

The Foreign Investors

Then came the Covid shutdown and immediately the weekly dividends stopped. The investors, even Howell,  accepted that it was not a time for taking dividends. Howell thought he could struggle through.

However, apart from the inconvenience of the shutdown, and lack of income, Covid had one advantage for Flowers. It put rivals out of business. Bar owners in Soi 6, some of whom were living month to month and did not have Flowers’ back-up, could not survive the shutdown, and while the investors agreed to temporarily stop taking their dividends, the controlling investors could live off the cash. 

 The Controlling Investors

During the Covid lockdowns Flowers was anxious that his young sex workers would not return to the provinces. He put out internet appeals to feed them and money flooded in from foreign contributors in Pattaya, who had signed up to his sexpat forum ‘Pattaya-Addicts’. He organised food giveaways to his ex-workers in Soi 6 and his newly formed online news operation was there to report it while the Night Wish ‘Reputation Group’ positively glowed on the publicity. It would also go down well at City Hall.

And then he monetised his sex-workers again by putting them on webcam. Viewers were asked to help them during Covid as they simulated sex acts on camera. Payments were made through PayPal. Flowers even went on the Bangok based YouTube interview show ‘ChitChat with Andrew and Andy’ and described with a smile how he had special ‘phallic’ glasses made up so the young women could simulate oral sex after being bought a virtual drink.

Immoral earnings

But he ended up with egg on his face. Facebook had banned him, and Paypal, he whined, had ‘stolen’ 6 million baht (US$180,000) from him – those payments to the sex-workers. This figure may have been exaggerated for the sake of investors. The PayPal view was that he was living off immoral earnings and if they paid out they would be participating in a crime. Flowers considered it art and entertainment. 

By the end of Covid, Adam Howell was close to penniless. His landlord thankfully understood his predicament. He needed cash to survive. But Flowers did not re-instate the dividends, even though the bars became as busy as ever and he had bought more on the cheap. He delayed and delayed, ignoring Howell’s pleas for nesrly four years right through until the beginning of 2024. All money was going to refurbish the business, said Flowers. 

In fact, he was buying bars and businesses all over town, using his business advisor Grant Corrin, and entering into partnerships with a Californian Soi 6 bar owner Chris Berndt, aka Chris Matters and Chris Better, and in the neighbouring Soi 7 with Nick Dean, a Pattaya Vlogger, from Stoke-on-Trent.

Dean had once managed a club in Manchester,  had been regularly gratuitously promoting Flowers’ businesses, including his law firm Anglo-Siam Legal, run by a former Durham police sergeant.

Dean had liquidated his NTv1 company in 2023, but continued to Vlog. He now shared four bars, a small hotel, a restaurant, and a giant sign company with Flowers. And apart from these additions Flowers’ business ’empire’ now included Anglo-Siam Legal, real estate agency and his coup de grace ‘The Rage Fight Academy’ – a Thai Kick-Boxing School with an attached resort- which he was bullding from scratch. 

Howell’s pleas for help just to keep him going until Flowers re-instated the dividends fell on deaf ears. He had financially helped Grant Corrin for a while but was unable to help him further.  Flowers reply was. ‘We’ve all agreed the business comes first’. Just who had agreed was never defined.

Howell knew that Flowers was heavily investing in other business and taking trips abroad to the UK, Turkey and Dubai staying in expensive hotels. 

But on November 23 2023 years after Covid the man who had given Flowers nearly half a million dollars, was begging for just a few dollars to save his dog’s life. He was frantic.

And he got more frantic

Message should be read from bottom to top

“Adam Howell even included a video of his suffering ‘Princess Fufu’ named afer the King of Thailand’s poodle.”

Flowers was barely interested.  Earlier in the year he had written.

 

Flower’s last post on November 11 2023, when Howell was pleading to save his dog, was:

 

Said Howell of the loss of his Terrier: ” I spent every dollar I had to try and save her I begged Bryan for money for liver injections. I spent the last of my money on a vet visit
and she came home and I laid with her she started to shake. I held her as she died and told her she was a good girl. I buried her under the mango tree in the garden.
It was a horrible experience and I’m crying like a baby right now telling the story. I still cry every time I think of her.”

After that last message Flowers blocked Howell.  He had, previously asked Flowers for a return of his investment, but Flowers had replied that he had spoken to other investors. They had all agreed not to take their dividends, he said.

He sent Howell an email with just three options.

• Howell could invest 3 milion baht more and take dividends.
• He could wait it out until Flowers said he was ready to pay dividends. 
• But if he wanted to cash in his 15 million baht ownership, he would only walk away with three million baht.

Howell said: “I realised then that it would be impossible to exit this horrible investment in a fair way.”

Six million baht of Howell’s original investment had been spent on paying off an earlier investor Ben Washington who was paid 6 million baht. At the time Howell invested the NWG had 12 bars. Today it has nearly 30. He was offered 3 million of his original 15 million stake.

Scott Schulz: ‘Latert today I will exit Ben.

Bryan Flowers: ‘Bullet or cheque 555555’

The figure 5 – ha. Is used to denote laughter in Thailand

 

 

Howell tried to seek help from Flowers partners and other investors. The latest investor, Greek-Australian Demetre Stavrides nicknamed ‘Baba’, who had joined just before Covid and had received few dividends, offered to have a word with Flowers. The ‘partners’ merely reported back to Flowers that they were being hassled.

Grant Corrin agreed to mediate. But he was in a precarious position. He had long overstayed his visa. About a year previously, when he was actually living with Flowers and his family in Paradise Villas, he was actually picked up by immigration police and was being got ready for deportation, when Flowers intervened.

Rather, Flowers’ friendly CIB cop ‘Robert’ -Police Lieutenant Nipon Phothalay intervened again on Flowers’ behalf and paid 200,000 baht (US$6000) to have him released.  

Corrin then moved into an apartment in central Pattaya, bought by Swedish investor Per Gunnar Larsen, now deceased, but registered in the name of Punippa Flowers. On behalf of Howell he wrote some measured letters to Flowers. Flowers recognised his writing style and attacked Howell for involving other people.

Shortly afterwards Corrin was arrested outside the apartment he had borrowed. His arrest was reported in the Bangkok Post and Adam Judd included in the Pattaya News. This time he was deported.

Howell by now said he was living in fear. Strange people had been lurking near his home at night. Two men standing at the gate for hours on end.

Then after dark they started fiddling with they key lock on the gate using flashlights. Howell went to the door and started shouting. They moved to the side of the gate. But eventully drove off unconcerned.

Police were called. Convinced that the men had been sent by Flowers,Howell moved to a secret location where he remains today.

Back in New Zealand Grant Corrin tried to mediate with Flowers by phone referring to Flowers’ ‘hitmen’ after hearing Howell’s story.

From Auckland, Corrin, by trade a mechancial engineer, said:

“Mate, I can confirm what Adam is saying is true. These guys were low-lives, particularly the scammers. Flowers is what he is. He arrived as a sex tourist, he still is.” He confirmed that Flowers, through ‘Robert’ had paid to stop him being deported, the first time.

“The only person I feel sorry for is Bryan Flowers’ wife (Punippa) Dun. I remember her as a very decent women and mother. She is in trouble because she obeyed what her husband told her to do.

“I feel guilty, because for a while I sung the praises of Flowers to Adam when I joined them on those trips to entrepreneurs meetings. I am glad I’m out of it. I used to buy the bars from him so that the seller would not know who the real buyer was. Apart from the ‘other stuff’*, Night Wish was a massive tax dodge. No authorities ever got to know its real earnings. 

“The accounts were drawn up by Night Wish for each bar to show that the income of each did not exceed 1.8 million a year. Some of the bars were doing that in a week!’

“I was trying to help Adam. But Flowers took exception to that. Afterwards I challenged Flowers by asking him whether he set me up for the deportation. But he denied it.”

• Bryan Flowers is suing Adam Howell in Pattaya court for libel. He claims Howell has libelled him in a YouTube video which alleged that the Night Wish Group trafficked in Thailand’s most precious commodity. ‘Its children’. Howell has denied the charge at Pattaya Court.
• Punnipa Flowers, Bar Manager William Bilton, 31, from Barow-in-Furness, and Jaranya Keepair, ‘Mama Kwang’ are on trial in Bangkok on charges of human trafficking, and trafficking a person under-aged into prostitution.

And What Bryan Flowers says

A written request for answers and comments has been sent to Bryan Flowers, but again he has not replied. However, apart from attacking this site and my social media with a blitz of porn and threats from agents based in Pakistan and hired through fiverr.com, he has written a blog. This was in relation to my original article reporting that he was suing Adam Howell for libel.

I should note that we have a history in that I caught the Pattaya News planting stories two years ago and inventing outrageous quotes from a  supposed Police Region 2 spokesman. 

In this blog he says he is the victim of a conspiracy of extortion.  He claims that Adam Howell is a crypto scammer, and kicked his dog in a fit of drunken rage then asked Night Wish to pay. He even said Adam had been offered his full money back first.

“Bryan Flowers is a family man living in Pattaya 18 years with a Thai wife, two children and multiple businesses. He has never cheated anyone or had any police charges against him. He has a very good reputation for honesty and trust, even if he gets jealous from having too many bars and businesses,” he states.

“Andrew Drummond is such a poor journalist, he didn’t look into anything or verify anything.  (or he was simply paid or offered a percent from the extortion) …Andrew Drummond ran from Thailand 10 years ago after facing several charges for breaking the law, he has been living in Scotland since then.  He was exiled from Thailand because he faced lawsuits if he came back.”

No evidence of criminality in Howell’s crypto dealings is evident or has been suggested.  On the contrary he launched Superdoge a charity based meme coin, which raised US$500,000 for charities during the Covid crisis, and cryptobillings.com which was a free payment gateway for the crypto industry. Howell was also a sponsor of Soi Dog Rescue donating 10,000 baht a month until money got scarce. So he regards Flowers comments as merely a malicious rant.

There is nothing preventing me returning to Thailand. There are no cases againmst me. Readers of this site know of course that I took on foreign criminals in Thailand. All of those were based in Pattya. Three sued for libel. My departure from Thailand was widely reported in the UK and Australia.

Drew Noyes, the American boss of the Pattaya Times was convicted and given a three year jail sentence for extortion but he fled Thailand on bail while on appeal.

Brian Goudie, aka, Goldie, who posed as a lawyer and former oficer in the Royal Marines, was jailed for two years for fraud – then escaped the same way.

After I left, the final Supreme Court judgement came down in a libel case brought by James Lumsden, co-owner of ‘Boyz Boyz Boyz’ in Pattaya. I was found not guilty. The judgement stated that I was ‘just doing my job as a journalist’.  I didn’t attend the hearing, but I don’t think they would have issued a warrant for my arrest. Immigration Police have confirmed there is nothing preventing me visiting Thailand.

Oh I don’t live in Scotland. But when I was recently attacked by a Pakistani ‘ take down’ agent hired by Flowers from fiverr.com I said that I was in the Black Cuillins on the Isle of Skye and I had two more Munroes to do before I could give him my attention.

All material published here has been verified by documents and social media posts made by the the persons named and in the Night Wish files and dating back to 2017. This story is just the introduction. I have linked his blog above and invite everyone to view. Curiously he gives the link to the ‘libelous’ sex trafficking video enabling me to download it. The link no longer works.

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