David Ames the boss of Harlequin Property and associated companies, who has allegedly defrauded victims out of several hundred million pounds has been charged with three counts of fraud. Ames, a former bankrupt double glazing salesman from Essex, UK, has been exposed multiple times on this site for his duff projects on the eastern seaboard, […]
BUT DON’T CRACK OPEN THE CHAMPAGNE – WANNA BUY A HOTEL IN PATTAYA? A hotel in Pattaya which is already mortgaged to a bank has now joined the list of properties offered and sold to foreigners. The Ahmedabad Mirror in India is reporting that Indian travel agent Bhargav Verma, has lodged a case of fraud […]
WE HELP SOME VICTIMS IN THAILAND BUT AS THIS WAS FOREIGNERS CONNING FOREIGNERS LOCAL PROMISES WERE EMPTY. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has banned one of the main distributors of Harlequin Property, which sold dodgy deals on Thailand’s eastern seaboard to pensioners, and fined him £169,500. Robert Shaw was a director of TailorMade Independent, based in […]
BUT WILL CHEATED BUYERS PUT HIM IN JAIL? THAI POLICE WON’T. Briton Richard Haughton – the man behind the ‘Emerald Palace’ condo scam in Pattaya has returned to Thailand and now lives in a village in Hua Hin run by the infamous Dutch property developer Dingeman ‘Dinkie’ Hendrikse. Haughton The corpulent former President of the […]
Getting results where BBC Panorama fails* Two more Britons were awarded the title deeds of their condominiums in Thailand today as judges ruled on a scam by the property company Harlequin, run locally by former video store owner from the British Midlands. Paul Rose and Maxine Warhurst won their case at the Pattaya Provincial court, […]
Ames PIECES OF EIGHT! PIECES OF EIGHT! WHERE IS AMES’ CASH? A treasure hunt conducted by the ‘Flying Sporran’ for the secret stash of twice bankrupt double glazing salesman David Ames, who has taken money for 6000 properties in the Caribbean and built just 300, has led a judge to put a ‘freezing order’ on […]
TAKE £500 MILLION TO BUILD RETIREMENT HOMES IN THE CARIBBEAN – FIND A RESORT PREFERABLY AT LEAST 10,000 MILES IN THE OTHER DIRECTION- LIKE THAILAND – GET SOMEONE ELSE TO BUILD IT- AND NOW YOU’RE WHISTLING DIXIE! – I am not holding my breath waiting for the BBC to broadcast the edition of Panorama it was going […]
DODGY PROPERTY COMPANY SAYS THE BBC ATTEMPTED TO BRIBE – A BBC Panorama programme based on David Ames and the Harlequin Property group has been postponed following claims that the producer had offered a Harlequin consultant a bribe. The programme called: “The Great Savings Wipeout” was planned to be an exposé of David Ames and […]
£1 MILLION SPENT ON 2 DAY PROMOTION ATTENDED BY THE PRIME MINISTERS OF ST. LUCIA AND ST.VINCENT. HAVE PATTAYA OFFICIALS LUCKED OUT? (In the British sense of the expression) Intrepid local paper sleuth John Austin of the Basildon Echo in the U.K. is pressing on with his enquiry into the locally based Harlequin Property Company […]
A meeting for those who have invested in Harlequin Property, which has received a lot of publicity on this site and more recently in the Mail On Sunday will go ahead this Saturday in Manchester. For those Britons who have put cash into Harlequin Properties in the Caribbean or in Harlequin Properties in Pattaya at […]
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.