SCOT OUT OF CONTROL IN PATTAYA Property fraud went wrong. Fraudster furious over being robbed of the proceeds. A police complaint was lodged by the Russian owner of a property business in the Thai resort of Pattaya early today against an emotional Scotsman who arrived at the business late last night shouting ‘I am going […]
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Fake British barrister Brian Goudie, currently on bail on charges of posing as a lawyer to cheat a 75-year-old American woman out of nearly US$250,000, is whining again on the internet about his former girlfriend, whom he calls a Soi 6 prostitute, which of course says more about him than her. […]
FINDINGS FLY IN THE FACE OF PRESS STATEMENTS BY PARENTS OF VICTIMS From today’s Irrawaddy The Burmese migrant workers accused of the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller are innocent and should be acquitted of the murders if they face a fair trial – a Burmese government investigation team said today. The Myanmar […]
PATTAYA PEOPLE SPONSORED SCAM SET FOR TRIAL IN PHUKET The law is finally catching up with scammers Australian David Tyson and Thai Rujiwan Pathumtawaphiban, who were exposed on this site some time ago when they tried to con expats and Thais alike with their Global-i-Care scheme. Rujiwan and David Tyson Sponsored by Niels Colov’s Pattaya […]
The website for Sparta Matrix which projects itself as a global leader in infrastructure development with US$1.4 billion in assets and US$2.5 billion in infrastructure projects… is down. It would appear that the infrastructure of Sparta Matrix, exposed on this site as a boiler room – or illegal share trading house – and one of […]
PASSING OFF A DUD CHEQUE FOR US$100 WILL GET YOU SERIOUS JAIL TIME IN THAILAND – ITS MUCH SAFER TO BE AN IFA Scoring a second hit in two days the unstoppable Lindell Lucy of ‘TheRapeofHongKong’ has come up with some more news for investors in the LM Managed Performance Fund who have lost their […]
Would you blame the manufacturer in your new car had a flat tyre? Down in Hong Kong Lindell Lucy is busy sleuthing in the field of expat investment. Whatever he says I’m guessing is relevant to all expatriates in Thailand too – and for those just about to hand over their bucks to an independent […]
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Yesterday in the UK the Guardian published a very good article about the plight of the two young Burmese charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Kho Tao. The article carried criticism of Scotland Yard and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in […]
COURT ACTION AGAINST FAKE LAWYERS IN PATTAYA Drew Noyes – US Ambassador Controversial American businessman Drew Noyes, former publisher of the Pattaya Times, blocked his Facebook page yesterday hours after a British journalist told a Thai court that last week he had used it to describe an oil worker with a baby daughter – as […]
“It was terrifying. My boyfriend was dead. He was staring me in the face and not breathing – but all the clinic boss would say was ‘He’s just sleeping’. A young Australian woman has told how she fled the Thai island of Koh Phangan after her fiancé died in front of her while undergoing a […]
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.