Andrew Drummond
Investigative Reports From Bangkok and Beyond

corruption

BUYER BEWARE THIS TROPICAL PARADISE!

A MONUMENT TO CORRUPTION These properties on the Thai holiday island of Phuket are for sale or rent. On the market the cheapest is advertised at £794,000. (35 million Thai baht) The expensive ones on the water’s edge are going at over £1 million which, compared to prices in the west, is cheap for a […]

FULL MOON PARTY HOSTS FED UP WITH CORRUPTION

OFFICIAL CAUGHT WITH HIS HANDS IN THE TILL – BUT WILL THESE COMPLAINTS DISAPPEAR? On the day Thailand’s military leader said that the country was on the way to becoming a first world country a foreign business owner on the Full Moon Party island made an official claim of corruption against government officials. Historical picture […]

THAI POLICE ARMED BRITISH DOUBLE CATEGORY A VIOLENT CRIMINAL

CONVICTED BANK ROBBER ARMED BY POLICE IN THAILAND FOR TERROR These are the moments a Thai policeman handed over a gun to a former ‘Double Category A’ British convict in the Thai resort of Hua Hin. The recipient was Jason Coghlan a convicted criminal and bank robbery and brother of the boss of one of […]

KILLER PAID OFF THAI COURT TO ENJOY THE FJORDS AGAIN

A SWEDISH VIEW OF THAI JUSTICE Ringvall and Thai girlfriend A journalist on a Sweden’s biggest newspaper Aftonbladet has just described one of the ugliest days in court he has ever seen. He was actually talking about a suburban court in Stockholm, Sweden but the case was one of murder and it happened in Pattaya. […]

The Vard Saga Comes to Blows in a Bangkok Lawyers Office

CAUGHT TRYING TO GET FILES BACK FROM LAWYER – VARD IS CARTED OFF BY POLICE. The controversy over Jessie Vard, the young Irish girl who has been exposing Thai corruption on the internet after her dad was robbed of seven houses in Phuket, came to blows yesterday in a lawyer’s office in Bangkok. Former Dublin […]

THE VARD CORRUPTION SCANDAL – ‘THANK YOU THAI POLICE’

The following message has been received from Jesse Vard on behalf of her father. Its early days and they family seem now more confident that at least some heads will role. They remain however in some contempt for the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Irish Consulate in Bangkok. Children’s author and former […]