The elusive jet-setter Roscoe Maloney – supremo of the ‘Touchwood’ forestry fiasco is currently in Cambodia presumably trying to sell the land he purchased there for one of his schemes. Sources had him departing Phnom Penh through Bangkok last week. For those wishing to talk to him police may or may not assist in providing […]
FIRST FOREIGN INVESTORS -NOW THAI VICTIMS COME FORWARD IN ‘TOUCHWOOD’ DEBACLE. Picture: Khao Sod Angry Thais, who were also scammed in the Touchwood agar wood forestry project, have stormed a police station in Bangkok demanding action be taken either by the Thai Police or Department of Special Investigations. Thai investors claimed they had been defrauded […]
BEWARE OF INVESTING IN FOUR LEGGED ANIMALS WITH HORNS AND VEGETABLE SAMOSAS. Fans of Roscoe Maloney – that half Aussie half Sri Lankan rogue who ripped off millions from investors in schemes to invest in their own private forests – can, I can now reveal find him basking in the sun and his earnings on […]
INVESTORS CASH GOES UP IN SMOKE- A company run by an Australian born Sri Lankan and employing foreign salesmen looks like it may have taken Thai citizens for a stunning 1,600 million baht (£31.65 million) by selling them trees, er, in Thailand. At a meeting of the Touchwood Investors Group last night investors from the […]
AGARWOOD INVESTORS SMELL SOMETHING BAD. Well they say money does not grow on trees. But of course it does, and people are investing in forests all over the place. Buy a tree and your money should grow as the tree grows. Voilà! And don’t forget the feel-good factor – you’re helping the environment (well in […]
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.