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Geoffrey Bond

LORD BOND’S BANGKOK JUNKET BITCOIN CRYPTO PLAN TAKES A DIVE

AHEAD OF HIS TIME?   Plans to accept payment in Bitcoin for citizenship or the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu have been shelved. The move, announced by Lord Geoffrey Bond, once a leading figure in Bangkok’s ‘night life’ has been declared a non-starter. Bond, right, with David Napuat, Secetary for Provincial Affairs and lawyers, […]

IS BRITISH LORD IN BANGKOK JUNKET THE NEW FACE OF AN ISLAND NATION?

CONTROVERSY AS FORMER BANGKOK BAR OWNER MOVES IN ON SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND ECONOMY The island nation of Vanuatu is concerned about a former ex-pat Bangkok businessman. Rather, observers of a recent junket to Bangkok by MPs of the country – formerly known as the ‘New Hebrides’- to seal a deal to market the country’s passports, […]

CHAMPAGNE DAYS OVER FOR BRITISH BERK OF BANGKOK?

Police in Somerset have been in touch with police in Bangkok over the case of Mark Hallett – a British scammer first exposed on this site as one of the new ‘sophisticated berks of Bangkok’. Hallett, 48, skipped the UK while facing 11 fraud charges related to a Ponzi’ investment scheme. His father was a […]

‘I’VE DONE NOTHING WRONG’ SAYS HAWOLD

HAWOLD – LORD OF THE MANOR FIGHTS BACK  BUT SHOULD WE BEWARE OF SIRENS SOUNDING LIKE PUPPY DOGS? Flying Sporran’s Weekly Diary. Briton Geoffrey Bond, Lord of the Manor of Hawald, a title which like many others can be acquired on the internet for £25, has written in to complain and ask for withdrawal of […]