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Mark Hallett

‘THE CHILLING EFFECT?’ WHAT DOES ‘WANTED BY SCOTLAND YARD’ MEAN IN THAILAND?

MONEY MONEY MONEY. IT’S A RICH MAN’S WORLD Mark Hallett, from Somerset wanted in the UK for fraud and moneylaundering, photographs 1 million baht in a Bangkok apartrment When the defence lawyers for Zaw Lynn and Wai Phyo, the two Burmese charged and convicted for the murders in Thailand of Britons David Miller and Hannah […]

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, […]

THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW – CRYPTO CASH – A ‘LORD’ AND A SCRAP DEALER

It’s a no news day on this website so I can report that Mark Hallett, a Briton wanted on fraud charges totalling nearly $4million by the Avon and Somerset Police is still at liberty and by all reports has hopped it to the neighbouring countries of Laos and Vietnam. But wait out…this tale of expats […]

WHY WOULD THAI POLICE BE LETTING ‘BRITISH CRIMS’ GO?

GANGLAND BRIT ROBBERS WERE NOT ‘DUMB AND DUMBER’ THAI IMMIGRATION POLICE RELEASE MAN WANTED FOR MASSIVE UK FRAUD ————– GANGLAND BRITAIN IN THAILAND (CONTINUED) While Thailand’s military government claims to be on a crusade against corruption, and a lot of Thai people have swallowed this hook line and sinker, Brits in Thailand continue to suffer […]

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 […]