Jonathan Head
FIRST TIME BUYER? HAND OVER YOUR THAI PARADISE HOME OR GO TO JAIL!
KPMG CONSULTANT – WHO BOUGHT LUXURY THAI HOME WITH ‘NO ENCUMBRANCES’ – GOT NOTHING! ORDERED IN COURT TO LEAVE EVERYTHING TO FRAUDSTER The continuing story of Thailand’s property scammers and the officials who stand to gain. A former consultant to KPMG, one of the world’s four largest audit groups, has told how he was threatened […]
SECOND CASE IN BBC LIBEL ROW IN THAILAND DISMISSED. BENT LAWYER GOES FREE TOO!
FRAUD IN THAI PROPERTY MARKET COVERED UP AMID CLAIMS THAT THE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE. CAUGHT IN THE ACT BUT – STILL NO ACTION AGAINST BENT THAI LAWYER PRATUAN THANARAK Briton Ian Rance, the second defendant in the Jonathan Head BBC libel case has today also been acquitted after the Phuket lawyer, who notarised […]
UNWANTED IN PARADISE – PART 1 ‘ BRAINS’
A BBC CORRESPONDENT FACES FIVE YEARS FOR EXPOSING PROPERTY FRAUD IN THAILAND. OTHERS WHO ARE RIPPED OFF FACE THE SAME FOR WHISTLE BLOWING BUT FOR THE BBC AND OTHER LIFESTYLE PROGRAMME MAKERS ITS ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ AS ‘HOUSE HUNTERS’ ARE LINED UP BY TELEVISION PROGRAMMES OFFERING THEM DREAM HOMES IN PARADISE. BUT THEY DON’T GET […]
THAILAND’S LEGAL BLOOD SPORT AND A BBC CORRESPONDENT
BUT THIS CASE CANNOT BE SETTLED ‘FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL’ The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand have issued a statement in support of BBC correspondent Jonathan Head, a former President, who faces jail together with a Briton Ian Rance, one of many people defrauded out of properties on the Thai island of Phuket. The […]
BBC South East Asia Correspondent gated by Thai court
Judges in Phuket, dubbed this week as the most corrupt place in Thailand by the Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand, have ruled that BBC South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, cannot travel around the region on news assignments without first seeking the courts permission – and paying more cash. In a case brought by a lawyer […]
BBC TO GO HEAD TO HEAD IN THAI COURT IN COMPUTER CRIME ACT CASE
The BBC is to support its south-east Asia correspondent Jonathan Head in a battle involving Thailand’s fraudulent property market after a court in Phuket accepted a case of slander under the country’s Computer Crime Act against him. Jonathan Head confronting Thai lawyer Pratuan Thanarak in Phuket Jonathan Head said today: “We will fight the […]
WILL THE BBC’S CORRESPONDENT BE IN COURT UNTIL RETIREMENT?
The BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is being sued for what a lot more foreign correspondents in Thailand should have been doing for years, is finding out just what it means to get involved in Thailand’s controversial legal system. Jonathan confronts lawyer in Phuket. Jonathan, who took up the cases of Briton’s Ian Rance and Irishman […]
BENT LAWYER TAKES ON THE BBC BUREAU CHIEF UNDER COMPUTER CRIME ACT
CAUGHT BANG TO RIGHTS – BUT WAIT -THIS IS THE THAI JUDICIAL SYSTEM BBC South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head and two foreigners, who were massively being defrauded in Thailand, are being sued by one of Thailand’s infamous bent lawyers for libel under Thailand’s Computer Crime Act. […]
BBC Tackles Systematic Fraud in Thailand
‘THERE IS NO LAW ON PHUKET!’ A long awaited report by the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head went to air yesterday on BBC2 in the UK. It is difficult to guess what affect it will have if any; but it was good to see the BBC dealing with frauds against foreigners in Thailand, […]
BRITISH EMBASSY AND FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS BACK BRITISH JOURNALIST’S FIGHT AGAINST FOREIGN CRIMINALS
The British Government has supported moves by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand calling on the Thai authorities to review ‘frivolous’ criminal defamation cases brought against a veteran British foreign correspondent, who has been investigating foreign crime in Thailand. Britain’s Ambassador Mark Kent and FCCT President Jonathan Head, the BBC’s South East Asia Correspondent have […]
