FORMER BROTHEL BOSS CLEARED OF RACKETEERING IN THAILAND David John Hanks, 67, former owner of a brothel in the suburbs of Melbourne, has been acquitted by the criminal court in Pattaya of racketeering and working in Thailand without a permit. In cases brought by Thailand’s Department of Special Investigations against Hanks and a Russian national […]
WE HELP SOME VICTIMS IN THAILAND BUT AS THIS WAS FOREIGNERS CONNING FOREIGNERS LOCAL PROMISES WERE EMPTY. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has banned one of the main distributors of Harlequin Property, which sold dodgy deals on Thailand’s eastern seaboard to pensioners, and fined him £169,500. Robert Shaw was a director of TailorMade Independent, based in […]
NOW WHERE TO FROM HERE? Britain’s Daily Telegraph today reports on the scandal of foreign based independent financial advisors selling duff products and also dodgy funds recommended by major financial institutions. Financial writer Katie Morley highlights the smarmy IFA’s and also the offshore arms of major British financial institutions, which also reap major benefits from […]
THREE MONTHS ON AND A COURT IN THAILAND HAS NOT EVEN GOT AROUND TO EVEN DISCUSS DETAILS OF A LUDICROUS CASE IN THEIR SYSTEM – BUT THIS CASE OF CONCOCTED CHARGES SEEMS LIKE IT WILL GO ON AND ON. “I sympathize with tourists for having to face many difficulties, such as scams, crime, accidents, injuries […]
THE SECRET NOYES ‘FRIEND’ TOOK WITH HIM AS HE WENT TO MEET HIS MAKER. American Drew Noyes is busy keeping us all informed on Facebook about his activities in the US. The property fraudster and fake lawyer is also however keeping one eye open on Thailand and this week recorded the death of Bob Sutterfield, […]
SOUTH AFRICAN GAZETTE PUBLISHER ‘FITTED UP’ BY PATTAYA POLICE – CLAIM. US$10,000 DOLLARS DOWN AFTER STITCH UP BETWEEN BAR GIRLS, POLICE. Pattaya lawyer took 150,000 baht, billed 70,000 for his services – and held on to the rest anyway The owner of the ‘Green Gazette’ – which publishes the South African government’s official notices – […]
Those expatriates who were stung by financial adviser Alan Hall, formerly a big noise in the Chiang Mai Expats Club in Northern Thailand, will be interested to hear that he has moved again. Instead of coming back to Thailand after recovering from an ailment he has now started yet another new money business in the […]
BUT SENTENCE SUSPENDED BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN A GOOD GIRL (before Drew) The Secretary of the Lions Club of Bangkok (310D Silom) and former hostess at the Buffalo Bar in Pattaya has been given a one year prison sentence and fined 10,000 Thai baht by Pattaya Court for libeling an assistant to foreign correspondent Andrew […]
BUT IN CRIMINAL CASE HE PULLS THE ‘I PICKED WRONG THAI WOMAN’ DEFENCE Fake barrister Brian Goudie has been given 15 days to pay an American woman or face bankruptcy and deportation. The Bankruptcy Court has ruled that Goudie, from Falkirk, Scotland, should pay 7.8 million Thai baht to Barbara Fanelli Miller, whose son Gregory […]
‘I didn’t think checking the CCTV of the boats was relevant – nor was it worth checking the murder weapon’ I have been following the trial of the two young Burmese on Koh Samui and have been totally absorbed. It seems now reading the international press that few people outside Thailand believe in Thai justice […]
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.