Expats in Hong Kong are now suing local independent financial advisers, pension fund trustees, and life insurance companies who promoted the LM Managed Performance Fund, and some expats in Thailand have also begun the same process. A report today in the South China Morning Post by Benjamin Robertson, who has also linked up to ‘whistleblower’ […]
GOOD NEWS FOR EXPAT INVESTORS WITH IFA’S IN THAILAND. THEIR RATINGS ARE STABLE – THEY ARE STILL AS BAD AS EVER! There’s nothing like living a dream and the top spot in my nominations for people who are doing so in Thailand must go to the Bangkok Post’s financial advice columnist Andrew Wood who has […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST ADMITS ‘FRUSTRATION’ WITH THAI LEGAL SYSTEM Samui Provincial Court today accepted a charge from fake lawyer Brian Goudie claiming that British journalist Andrew Drummond had committed libel under the Computer Crime Act by publishing a photo-shopped picture of him in a gay parade. Andrew Drummond will have to attend Samui Court on October […]
AT WHAT PRICE? DRUGGIES HEAD FOR KOH PHANGAN FOR MIRACLE CURE Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary Picture – Coconuts – Woolsey with Trink I was slightly intrigued by the interview by young Canadian ‘video journalist’ Barbara Woolsey on ‘Coconuts’ of the Bangkok Post’s legendary former entertainment columnist Bernard Trink that I decided to dig a little […]
IT’S GOT IT ALL – KOH SAMUI’S INFAMOUS SOI GREEN MANGO It’s got it all apparently. Youngsters on their holidays have been known to spend almost every night in Soi Green Mango in perfect safety. It has the last closing dance spot, partially owned by police, lots of bars and even the island’s ‘Dream Girls’ […]
AN EXCRUCIATING EMAIL EXCHANGE BETWEEN LM AND A FINANCIAL ADVISER If there can be any doubt that directors of the company and salesmen of the product were lying their heads off then the following long series of emails from an adviser trying to get his clients’ money back will put an end to them. Martyn […]
-LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES AGAIN – WITH BRITAIN’S C4- Certain types of documentary surface on a regular basis. One such theme is ‘Thai Brides’ which holds a special attraction for British television. The latest piece of work on this subject is called ‘My Internet Bride’ and the first episode on C4 […]
The notorious SpartaMatrix company which has been running boiler rooms out of Manila and Bangkok is, it appears, in a spot of bother. It has been washing its cash into port facilities in Croatia pretending to have some sort of logistical know-how. The holding company Miklavja LC has gone belly up and filed for bankruptcy […]
FORMER PRIME MINISTER NAMED Boiler room bosses, aka ‘The Wolves of Bangkok’, have been making widespread payments to several police departments and even an army general, it is claimed today. Investors chasing the ‘Bangkok Five’, the major share trading scammers in the Thai capital describe farcical moments as bosses made arrangements to either get their […]
KICKING THE LM CAN DOWN THE ROAD! Heather McLeish A client was able to redeem a large investment from LM but it still took two years and he had a senior position at a well known investment bank and there were threats to sue. In continuing revelations by Martin Terpilowski, whose client it was, replies […]
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.