Once again dirty money has been laundered through HSBC Hong Kong, and once again the perpetrators are British boiler room scammers based in southeast Asia. A European victims’ group has filed complaints to HSBC’s headquarters in London and Hong Kong accusing the ‘pirate bank’ yet again of money laundering for organised crime through its southeast […]
NEW NORDIC BOSS WHO BROKE NORWEGIAN BANK GOES BUST AGAIN BUT HE’S NOT THAT INNOCENT New Nordic, the property group formed in Thailand by Kurt Svendheim, has gone bust. The developer, who had plastered the resort of Pattaya with his orange branded apartments and hotels is finished in Thailand. News was broken to investors […]
‘WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO GET MY GOVERNMENT’S SUPPORT ? MOTHER’S PLEAD IN BARRISTER DEATH CASE LINKED TO THAI PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE ‘The Foreign Office told me not to go to the media. They did little else. ‘ – Mrs. Samantha Simmonds The BBC’s drama series ‘The Serpent’, based on serial killer Charles […]
Various Thai media and the Daily Mail using its vast reserve of internet trawling online reporters have been running a story this week about 33-year-old Benjamin Robert Simpson an alleged wealthy crypto currency dealer who, while high on methamphetamine indulged in a shooting spree from his speedboat off the Thai island of Koh Samui. The […]
CHINESE PROPERTY BUYERS IN THAILAND NOW SET TO BE LATEST LOSERS In a move that does not bode well for the predominantly Chinese buyers in luxury villa projects on the Thai island of Koh Samui the local Mayor has ordered work to be stopped on a billion baht’s worth of projects being built by the […]
ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD AND MAFIA CONNECTIONS BANDIED ABOUT IN FRENCH VILLA PROJECTS PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES ‘OPEN SORES’ IN CHAWENG NOI The Thai Parliamentary Committee into Law, Justice and Human Rights is to investigate alleged irregular land purchases on the holiday island of Koh Samui and the actions by the French controllers of a villa […]
Not before time, Andy Hall, who has exposed exploitative conditions for migrant workers in Thailand many times, has finally become the victor in his long battle with the fruit canning company Natural Fruit. His case is an outstanding example of what happens when whistle-blowers expose exploitation and even crimes committed by powerful people and companies […]
‘POLICE AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS SET ME UP’ SAYS DOUGLAS SHOEBRIDGE – WANTED IN THAILAND FOR TRAFFICKING IN AFRICAN WOMEN An Australian aide to Thai police, who has been accused of framing fellow Australian Luke Cook for a death sentence in Thailand in a sensational drugs trafficking trial, claims he now himself has been framed on […]
JUDGES REVERSED TRIAL VERDICT FOR ‘SUPER PAYOUT’ FOR PRIME MINSTER’S ADVISOR & A COMMISSIONER FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE! AND ALL IT TOOK WAS THE DEATH OF A BRITISH BARRISTER. Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and chief legal expert was the person who ordered the fixing of a trial verdict cementing a 3 billion baht (£74 […]
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.