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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST – MAN WHO INVESTED PATTAYA PUBLISHER WITH UNESCO CROSS GOES BUST

August 4, 2014, 1:18 am
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-HONOUR WHERE HONOURS IS DUE!
BUT NOT IN PATTAYA SURELY!
Colov and Kunze. He's got the UNESCO cross on his jacket
This is a sad day for Niels Colov, CEO of the Pattaya People Media Company, who, when the last time I communicated, was still, he said, convinced he had been awarded the UNESCO Cross and would not believe otherwise until UNESCO told him so.

Never mind that UNESCO issued a statement deploring the investiture in the Richmond Hotel in Bangkok and complained of breach of copyright of the UNESCO logo.

Colov, former Copenhagen pimp, and Group Leader of the Pattaya Police volunteers was having nothing of it.  Only if UNESCO contacted him in person would he be deprived of his cherished medal. (UNESCO does not give out crosses for the simple reason that it is a Christian religious symbol).

Now I have to tell him that Dr.Mathias Kunze who claimed to be from UNESCO Krakow – the man who invited Niels along, and apparently invited Niels to invite others to get the medal too – has gone bust.

His Starburst company was also registered in Panama I guess meaning is you Starburst millions of people with
false claims, some are going to cough up.

Well he may personally have not gone bust, but another scam he was running has – and he has had to wind up the Benjamin Franklin College in Alpnach, Oberwald, Switzerland.  The college claimed to be a University and offered degrees to punters in at the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica for 16,000 Euros.

This university was exposed in Der Speigel as nothing more than a fake degree mill.

From Niels Colov's Linkedin. Bang goes his doctorship, his UNESCO cross and his Knighthood!

But look above. See also who claimed to have a Honorary Degree from the same University. None other than Niels Marten Storm Colov - the same man who had a history in Denmark of pimping, vandalism, etc in this link.

Now I am beginning to think Niels was fibbing when he said this:"I can think of many reasons why UNESCO should give me an award."  He allegedly received the UNESCO Cross for, ehem, 'outstanding public, scientific and cultural engagement in human life and education'.

As for UNESCO, did this organisation ever tell Niels that his medal was totally fake? No it promised to take action. The response was to contact the Thai UNESCO authority to take action. The Thai office did nothing. It is much more efficient when they are dealing with incoming cash I'm told.
Drew Noyes giving Colov an award. Their shelves are full of such

Still Neils Colov and his friend, former Pattaya Times publisher, #DrewNoyes can still hang on to the knighthoods, which they got from the Knights of Rizal.

Whoops, sorry I am wrong there too. It seems this lot have closed down in Pattaya now.

Still Drew has the Lions Club 310D of Bangkok Silom.

While Kunze has bitten the dust on the above, he is back up on the internet again offering professorships and honorary degrees from Hamburg.

From Kunze's latest website


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Yet more fantasies from the foreign clowns who think they run Pattaya, or at least the 'farang' or 'foreign' side of it. Who do they think they are kidding. When will the authorities wake up?  Why should anybody take these people, who claim substance but have none of it, seriously. 


But while organisations like UNESCO do nothing whole other people rip off their name and Mayors and Police Colonels invite them out to lunch it seems the people down there deserve what they get. 


Maybe Pattaya City could offer tours to see this species which has uniquely developed in this eastern seaboard city.  

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SCOTS SUING GOOGLE FOR 'RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN' FAIL TO CLOSE DOWN WEBSITE

August 7, 2014, 8:11 pm
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Graphic by mashable.com
Two Scots who attempted to get this website closed down or either have all stories and pictures about them removed failed in their bid at Koh Samui Provincial Court.

Brian Goudie and David Hanks last month lodged a case at Bangkok Criminal court against the founders of Google and the entire board for failing to close this website quoting the European Court 'Right to be Forgotten' judgment.

But already in Thailand Koh Samui court has dismissed similar claims after a heated hearing on the holiday island. The court has ordered all parties not to report on the testimony pending settlement of libel cases.

A case brought by Goudie against Andrew Drummond for libel and libel under the Computer Crimes Act was adjourned for decision whether to accept or refuse on August 27th. A case brought by Hanks was adjourned for examination of his witness Brian Goudie on September 17th/

Goudie's reaction


Fuller Report to follow.

Goudie's story on his Casewatchasia site
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS PUT ON SQUEEZE THAILAND’S PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY

August 8, 2014, 2:28 am
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THAI PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY URGED TO TELL NATURAL FRUIT TO 'BACK OFF'

Some 98 international organisations have warned Thailand’s Pineapple Industry Association that if they do not disassociate themselves from Natural Fruit which is suing British human rights activists Andy Hall for libel, that they may too face an international boycott.

The organisations which include labour unions, non-government organisations, and advocacy groups from around the world – including Britain’s Trades Union Congress are singaling out the TPIA because Wirat Piyapornpaiboon its President is also CEO of Natural Fruit.

They have urged the TPIA to follow the United Nations Guidance on Business and Human Rights. And they will be asking individual members of the TPIA to also press Natural Fruit to comply with the UN Guidelines and withdraw their legal action against Mr. Hall, a British lawyer from Spalding, Lincs.

Should Natural Fruit not comply they will ask it to remove Wirat Pyapornpaiboon as President of the association and Natural Fruit from membership.

Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, representing 6 million workers in Andy Hall’s home country, said:

“Vulnerable workers need people like Andy Hall – working with trade unions in Thailand and internationally – to stand up against exploitation and abuse. We need to be free from harassment and victimization so we can protect working people from corporate greed and government inaction. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.”


Andy Hall at court


“We will keep track of actions taken by TPIA members, information that may be registered in relevant sections of our websites and will be circulated to the 18,000 subscribers of BHR’s Weekly Update newsletter.  
"We are also actively reaching out to retailers in the United States and Europe on this issue, and will convey to them our views on which members of the TPIA are taking this attack on human rights seriously.”

BHR is the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre which monitors human rights breaches by international companies.

The latest action follows a controversial television documentary series on Thailand’s Channel 3, ‘The trafficking research which impacted negatively on Thailand’. The series was a scarlet veiled attack on Andy Hall which contained claims that he paid the Burmese workers for their interviews, falsely claimed and to be a don at a Bangkok University.

The full text of the letter and the list of international organisations go here. Also go HERE



Dear TPIA Member,
We write to you today to express deep concern with recent actions by a fellow member of the Thai Pineapple Industry Association (TPIA), Natural Fruit Co. Ltd., and Natural Fruit’s CEO and TPIA President, Wirat Piyapornpaiboon. The case Natural Fruit has brought against labor rights researcher, Mr. Andy Hall, has received international media attention and has been described as an “international embarrassment” to Thailand. 
Natural Fruit’s apparent effort to silence human rights defenders tarnishes the reputation of the TPIA and the entire Thai pineapple export industry. We ask that you take immediate action within the TPIA to urge that Natural Fruit drop its case against Andy Hall and cooperate with worker groups and NGOs to resolve alleged labor rights violations at its factories. 
If Natural Fruit continues on its current course, TPIA members should act together to preserve the integrity of the organization by sanctioning Natural Fruit, up to and including removal of Mr. Wirat Piyapornpaiboon as TPIA president and revocation of Natural Fruit’s membership in TPIA.  
Natural Fruit filed its first criminal defamation charge against Mr. Hall on February 4, 2013, after he contributed to a report by the Finnish NGO Finnwatch that alleged serious labor rights abuses at the company’s factory in Prachuap Khiri Khan province. The report, Cheap has a High Price, gathered worker interviews to document violations including child labor, underpayment of wages, confiscation of migrant workers’ travel and work documents, and failure to provide legally mandated paid sick days, holidays and leave. 
Natural Fruit has continued to file cases against Mr. Hall, now totaling three criminal defamation charges, one civil defamation action and two criminal charges under the Computer Crimes Act. If found guilty of all the charges, Mr. Hall faces up to seven years in prison on each count and about $9.5 million in damages. The trial is scheduled to begin in September 2014. 
Both before and after publication, Finnwatch and Mr. Hall made overtures to Natural Fruit to request comments and work together to resolve the issues alleged in the report. 
If, as Natural Fruit claims, the allegations are false, it should be straightforward for the company to clear up any issue and demonstrate that it is adhering to labor laws. By refusing to work with civil society and instead launching an aggressive legal battle against Mr. Hall, Natural Fruit is sending a message that it would rather intimidate critics and silence those who advocate on behalf of migrant workers than engage in genuine dialogue about conditions in its factories.  
We would hope instead that Natural Fruit would pursue the matter in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which calls upon businesses to “address adverse human rights impacts with which they are involved” as a foundational principle. \ 
TPIA should not remain silent while its President’s company undertakes punitive, unjust actions against Andy Hall. Already, internet searches for the Thai Pineapple Industry Association bring more results condemning Natural Fruit for its actions than positive stories of your work promoting the Thai pineapple industry. 
This negative publicity hinders TPIA’s ability to carry out its stated mission, and the trial has not yet even begun. Once the trial has begun, current and potential buyers may weigh the risks of becoming associated with the case and its connection with the TPIA and its member companies.
To protect its members and the industry it represents, we believe that TPIA must take immediate action. We hope that you will work with other members of the TPIA to encourage Natural Fruit to drop the charges against Mr. Hall and engage constructively with civil society to demonstrate that all its members are in compliance with labor laws. If Natural Fruit refuses, we ask that the TPIA revoke Natural Fruit’s membership and remove Mr. Piyapornpaiboon as TPIA president.  
We hope you will give immediate attention to this issue and look forward to a response outlining your plans regarding Natural Fruit. We would also welcome the opportunity to discuss this matter with you further. 
Please forward any action you take on this matter to Bobbie Sta. Maria, stamaria@business-humanrights.org, at Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHR), or Abby McGill, abby@ilrf.org, at the International Labor Rights Forum. We will keep track of actions taken by TPIA members, information that may be registered in relevant sections of our websites and will be circulated to the 18,000 subscribers of BHR’s Weekly Update newsletter. We are also actively reaching out to retailers in the United States and Europe on this issue, and will convey to them our views on which members of the TPIA are taking this attack on human rights seriously.

Sincerely,
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BRITISH JOURNALIST TO RETURN CHARGES OF CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST 'FAKE FOREIGN LAWYERS'

August 9, 2014, 11:07 pm
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CORRESPONDENT FIGHTS BACK AGAINST PERJURY AND CONTEMPT ON THAI LAW DAY

British journalist Andrew Drummond said today he would be returning accusations of contempt of court against a gang of three in Thailand after discovering that a photograph had been taken of him inside a court room in Bangkok - after all three had denied to a judge they had done such a thing.

Lawyers representing Drummond had informed the judge at a recent hearing in Bangkok Criminal Court that Drew Walter Noyes, Brian Goudie, and David Hanks, had been brandishing their smart phones and pointing them at Andrew Drummond in court either taking pictures, or feigning to do so. Drummond was also jostled outside the court.

All three were being sued by Andrew Drummond, and Alastair Cooper, who were returning charges of libel and libel under the Computer Crimes Act.

Jan Jansen
When asked by the judge if any of them had done so all three indignantly denied the accusation. The judge took their word and did not examine their phones. However a picture of Drummond inside the court subsequently appeared on an obscure website called phuketnewsonline, registered to Jan Jansen at Easybranches, with addresses at 34/17 Mu 3,Chaofa West Road. Phuket 83130.

Drew Noyes linked the article on Twitter and Brian Goudie then also placed links on his Facebook site.

Dutch owner #JanJansen later met Drummond and removed the photograph and a libelous article conceding it was wrong to publish. But he refused to name the source of the article.

Goudie Facebook's link to the contempt of court


Lawyers will now petition to the court for all three to be summonsed for contempt of court.

If the culprit does not identify himself they will request all three be jailed until they do so.

As Jan Jansen has aided and abetted in the cover-up charges will also be placed against him for libel and contempt of court. Jansen has blamed the 'mistake' on a member of staff and has admitted knowing Drew Noyes but 'not well'. He may not have been totally frank.



Checks reveal that Jansen who runs a web hosting and SEO business called Easybranches was in Noyes' now defunct 'Optimists', is used by Noyes as a reference on Naymz.com, himself recommends Noyes on one of Noyes' websites, and has also published fictitious stories provided by Noyes in the past. Noyes, Jansen and Colov appear to be in a mutual admiration society, each recommending each other on their websites.




Noyes
Drew Noyes and Brian Goudie have been operating in Thailand claiming to be lawyers and running quasi legal firms.  David Hanks has recently claimed to be a lawyer, says a witness in a new scam.

Drummond's action follows the rejection by the Provincial Court in Koh Samui to have this website blocked in Thailand and also rejected demands to remove stories about two Scotsman who are taking Google to court claiming the right to be forgotten.

Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk, and David Hanks, 66, from Girvan, Ayrshire, had made the demands in complaints of contempt of court against British journalist Andrew Drummond, made to the Koh Samui Provincial Court.

Hanks demanded an order from the court that Drummond’s website be blocked by the Technical Crime Suppression Division of the Ministry of Information and Communication.   Goudie demanded that all photographs and stories about him be removed.

Drew Noyes links the contempt on Twitter


Brian Goudie
The court found no evidence of contempt but warned all parties not to publish testimony of witnesses in trials currently in progress at the court until the cases were settled.

Brian Goudie is suing Drummond for libel over a series of photo-shopped pictures of Goudie but nothing Drummond had written about him. These pictures included images of Goudie dressed in a lawyer’s robe and barrister’s wig, in the uniform of the officer in the Royal Marines, and in chains entering a Thai prison, and as a fugitive.

Brian Goudie is currently on trial in the Thai resort of Pattaya where he is charged with posing as a lawyer to cheat Mrs. Barbara Fanelli Miller, aged 76, out of 7.9 million baht (£145,500) for his legal services to get her son off charges of child sexual abuse in Pattaya. He was accused of claiming to be a former Captain in the Royal Marines.

Previously he was jailed for six years in Australia for stealing some AU$340,000 from a mining company, and for a brief period (2-3 days) he was also jailed in Thailand for failing to surrender to bail.

David Hanks
The Australian Appeals Tribunal declined to give him residency in Australia. Part of the reason given in the judgment was that he had refused to return to Scotland to answer to an arrest warrant for a fraud on the Royal Bank and a car company. He was judged to be a man ‘not of good character’.
The Royal Navy press office has denied Goudie was in the Royal Marines proper. He had however been in the Royal Marine Reserve when he was known as Brian Goldie but he had not attained a rank higher than Marine.

David Hanks, former licence holder for the Masquerades Brothel in Keysborough, near Melbourne, in Australia, is suing Drummond for suggesting he was part of a mafia gang. Hanks is currently on bail in Thailand after being arrested on racketeering charges as the result of an investigation by Thailand’s Department of Special Investigations.

He is accused of being part of a gang which loaned cash to Russians in the resort at the rate of 60 per cent per month. The news was widely covered by the Thai press which described the gang as a ‘mafia’ operation Three Russians were also arrested.

A DSI report claims that those loaned money were beaten up if they did not repay.
The Koh Samui Court ruled that Hanks did not have the power to demand the closure of Drummond’s website – www.andrew-drummond.com.

Bangkok based journalist Andrew Drummond, from East Craigs, Edinburgh, said he was pleased with the fair judgment of the court and particularly pleased that this happened on Prince Rapee Day - or Thai Law Day. Prince Rapee the father of modern Thai law had studied law in the U.K. and much of Thai criminal law is based on the knowledge he brought to Thailand.

This is an Order of The Koh Samui Court in Thai. English translation to follow:

คำสั่งคดีโจทก์นายเดวิด จอห์น แฮงส์
ห้ามมิให้คู่ความออกโฆษณาหรือเปิดเผยซึ่งคำเบิกความในคดีลงในเว็บไซต์ สื่อ หรือสิ่งอื่นใด จนกว่าศาลจะมีคำสั่งเปลี่ยนแปลงเป็นอย่างอื่น ให้ยกคำร้องที่ขอให้ศาลมีคำสั่งไปยังเจ้าหน้าที่กระทรวงเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสารเพื่อให้ระงับเว็บไซต์ที่จำเลยลงเนื้อความพาดพิงถึงโจทก์ เนื่องจากโจทก์ไม่ใช่พนักงานเจ้าหน้าที่ซึ่งมีอำนาจยื่นคำร้องตามพระราชบัญญัติว่าด้วยการกระทำความผิดเกี่ยวกับคอมพิวเตอร์ พ.ศ.2550 มาตรา 20
คำสั่งคดีโจทก์นายไบรอัน เกาดี้หรือโกลดี้
พิเคราะห์คำร้อง เอกสารท้ายคำร้อง ข้อเท็จจริงที่คู่ความรับกันแล้วเห็นว่า ลักษณะข้อความตามเอกสารที่ปรากฏมีคำเบิกความของพยานที่ศาลนี้ปรากฏและมีข้อความต่อท้ายในลักษณะกล่าวหากัน ห้ามมิให้คู่ความออกโฆษณาหรือเปิดเผยซึ่งคำเบิกความในคดีลงในเว็บไซต์ สื่อ หรือสิ่งอื่นใด จนกว่าศาลจะมีคำสั่งเปลี่ยนแปลงเป็นอย่างอื่น


#Drew Noyes #DavidHanks #Easybranches #JanJansen #BrianGoudie #BrianGoldie

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ZIP ME UP BEFORE I GO-GO

August 9, 2014, 3:27 pm
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Posteriors getting larger?
While reluctant to be categorized as a website for go-go bar crawlers, here follows a short report on a police raid on the ‘Windmill’ club in Pattaya’s Walking Street last night.

The club describes itself as the naughtiest go go bar in Pattaya and on its website has a testimonial for being the dirtiest one in Pattaya – dirty being not so much a state of  lack of cleanliness but a state of mind, which has obviously added to its popularity.

Anyway perhaps its popularity and naughtiness, and what was on show,  more than many other bars, may have induced jealousy. Pattaya Police last night raided the premises, made the usual arrests and dished out the usual fines.  This is the Pattaya way.

One you have paid your dues you can then conduct business again happy in the fact that you can continue to rent out your staff to local expats and tourists and not be classified as any sort of sex establishment.

It appears that British boss David Hamilton, 55, did not appreciate the finer points of working in Pattaya.


He was furious, perhaps having paid his dues already. He lashed out at local Thai photographers who were on hand as usual to record their usual shock at what was going on inside and later at the police station.

This seems to have upset the local media, who said they would lodge charges against him.

Never a good idea. It seems the matter may not end there. So there you have it. If you are in this business – take it like a man. Best policy - zip up. Don't get lippy. You are after all breaking the law if Pattaya police chose to prosecute.


The Windmill Club seems to be the the Peach Tree Co Ltd.

That's the current active firm at 29/79 Moo 10 Nongprue,(left) which is the Windmill Club registered to David and his wife Niphida.

David's name was also listed as a director of the now defunct Complete Real Estate Co. Ltd.

Perhaps it went defunct this year because it was actually it was registered as 'serving alcohol as a primary trade' rather than selling houses.

And his name also shows up on a company in Thai called this - บริษัท เดอะ สแนทซ์ ฟาร์ม 2 จำกัด.

Now in English that sounds very much like 'The Snatch Farm 2 Company Limited and it has a Walking Street Soi 14 address - next to a very un-secretive British club called 'Secrets'.

Words related to snatch

Obviously David has a blue collar British sense of humour. But I can only remind him that the 'Gobble and Go' has gone now and the use of 'dirty' names does not always go down well with the authorities.

If you are farming 'snatch' and your companies smell of proxy snatch, and the police raid you; best to adapt the attitude of a 'shrinking violet'. Being big in the sex trade in Pattaya is a temporal and often temporary thing.

The sex trade in Pattaya was the cause of some wonderment to a television crew filming last year for the series 'Brits in Bangkok'. They included Pattaya, but not in the film title, and were in obvious bewilderment as they filmed with a British Volunteer policeman in Walking Street, who approached two girls who were attempting to chat up a couple of foreign men. He turned to the crew saying: "I won't do them now. I'll come back and arrest them later. Its against the law." - this against a backdrop of a sea of girls, including Russians, doing exactly the same thing.


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Military rulers. An Ivy League University, A Race to Govern, And Rich Kids Stuck On a Thai Holiday Island.

August 9, 2014, 9:48 am
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NO-ONE'S OWNING UP SO THIS POSH SCHOOL DRAMA IS HEADING FOR A DRAMATIC DENOUEMENT!

Rayond Chang (Junior) Cornell bound
It appears to be a nightmare. Two international students need to get to their top Universities in the United States quickly for the beginning of the new semester – and the father of one needs to get to the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.


The two students Raymond Tony Chang and Ryan Wang need to get to the Ivy League University Cornell and Purdue University respectively and Raymond Nobu Chang (Senior) once tipped by Fortune magazine to be a prospective global leader, needs to get to know how to rule the world.

But first he his wife and his son need to settle into a US$2 million house in Lexington, Massachusetts.



The problem is that Raymond Chang (junior) and Ryan Wang former students at Shanghai International School are trapped in Thailand.

Raymond Chang - about to go for the camera
Their passports have been confiscated, and they are waiting to go to trial at the end of next month long after the new semester starts.

They are charged with an attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel, a student at NIST (New International School of Thailand) at the Green Mango Club in Chawaeng on the holiday island of Phuket intending to cause and causing him grievous bodily harm.

Jack Hansen-Bartel has applied to go to Australia's Monash University, but had to undergo extensive surgery and it will not be completed for at least another year, said his mother Annie Hansen.

The father’s current skills at international diplomacy seem to have failed him. He blitzed into Thailand blaming Jack Hansen-Bartel for the attack despite the fact that evidence of the injuries alone showed that Jack was the victim and that the boys initially admitted their role, claiming they were going to the aid of a damsel in distress.



Pressure was put on local police by a very senior official to drop the charges, but Raymond Chang had underestimated the determination and strength of an Aussie mum.

Police in Koh Samui at the insistence of the Chinese-American father insisted that charges be brought against Jack too not realizing that by doing that to the son of a mum like Annie he was upping the stakes.

Jack Hansen-Bartel with NCPO

Ryan Wang - Purdue bound
In stepped the military led National Council for Peace and Order, who greeted the local policeman as he flew into Bangkok very politely and just noted that they were present to see fair play.

But since that time the father has been to Koh Samui Provincial Court at least four times to get his son and his son’s friend’s passports back...so far unsuccessfully...and he has been calling at the police station regularly.

It seems that the father was attempting old style Chinese politics rather than the American way. It seems he does need to go back to school to learn diplomacy.

Angrily breaking the microphone off a Channel 7 (Australia) cameraman’s rig was perhaps not the best way to open up diplomatic relations in Koh Samui. But then again is it the Chinese or American way of diplomacy #RaymondNobuChang has been adopting. The American way has always been carrot or stick? We've seen the stick. The carrot here may be abstract. There are of course Chinese whispers.



Above a Channel 7 report showing the NCPO team coming to the aid of Aussie mum Annie Hansen-Bartel.


Jack with Annie Hansen
Meanwhile battling Melbourne mum (not Adelaide as Channel 7 states) Annie Hansen appears to be monitoring the situation like a hawk. If someone moves to arrest Jack we can expect some action.

But the real drama in the saga will at the end probably not be the actual minute of violence in Samui's Soi Green Mango but with relevations yet to be made. 

Its something dare I say it which could reach the corridors of power. 


Watch this site.
#RaymondNobuChang, #RaymondTonyChang, #RyanWang, #JackHansen-Bartel,
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AUSSIE SCANDAL HIT FUND MANAGER BREAKS HIS SILENCE TO THREATEN 'FAT ENGLISHMAN'

August 8, 2014, 9:59 pm
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THE CHARMED LIFE OF AUSSIE FUND MANAGERS

News today for the South East Asian victims of the great LM financial fund Ponzi scam. This scam has ruined many people in Thailand who put their life savings, or had their Financial Advisers put their life savings into this fund believing it was as safe as an Australian Bank.

The boss, whose actions have ruined the lives of so many people, has now set up his own website, to defend himself. It can be found here

Peter Drake complains of being intimidated, in particular ‘by one fat Englishman’ and said he has been recording the calls of those who abuse him. 

This appears to be a therapeutic exercise for people who now have to throw themselves at the mercy of social security departments around the western world.

Drake seems to describe everyone but himself as incompetent. (This may be true. In his case his actions sound deliberate) He also claims poverty, well maybe apart from that 18-year-old house in Fiji and the stuff he has put in other people’s names and trusts etc. He complains of press lies and distortions.

Amazingly – just like our Pattaya scammers he throws up his wife as a victim of these ‘haters’.


His arrogant defence also sounds a lot like the one put up by some financial advisers in Bangkok. Enjoy.

No one accountable in the largest fund scandal in Australian history.

LM Investor Victim Centre
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EXCLUSIVE: FAKE FOREIGN LAWYERS TRY TO CASH IN ON SHINAWATRA'S FROZEN BILLIONS

August 10, 2014, 4:58 am
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A STORY OF LOW LIFE SCAMMERS IN SLEAZY BARS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA'S TWILIGHT WORLD 

Thaksin in exile in Weybridge, Surrey, before he had to move on to Dubai
Two Scots and one American posing as lawyers in Thailand have been uncovered attempting a scam involving the frozen billions of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Together with a third man, who acted as a ‘go between’, they promised Bill Monson, the President of Clearview Television, who was a former partner of Shinawatra in cable television, paging and mobile phone services, they could get back the millions due to him in a business deal that went badly wrong.

Monson, from Seattle, lost his fortune after going into business with Shinawatra. Meanwhile the controversial former Prime Minister made his fortune and went on to become one of the most powerful men in Asia.

Bill Monson
For over thirty years Mr. Monson has been fighting his corner hoping to get his fortune back. He has yet to be successful.

Thaksin Shinawatra had denied his claims, saying he was Monson's boss.

But the con men, who first outlined their proposals at a meeting at One Stop Service Center - in Pattaya, promised they could get Monson’s cash back from the £1 billion the Supreme Court ordered to be frozen in February 2010.

All they wanted was a few million dollars for themselves.

But three out of the four of them were on bail from Pattaya Provincial Court for various offences when the scam was attempted. And the fixer was a drifter prowling internet dating sites.

Those involved in the scam it is alleged were Brian Goudie, aka Goldie, 47, from Falkirk, Scotland, Drew Walter Noyes, 59, from Irvine, California, David John Hanks,66, from Girvan, Ayrshire, and the fixer was Jerry Weinerth, from Hawaii.

Fortunately for him Drew Walter Noyes was however ditched from the scheme after Monson's adviser told the others: "We're not dealing with that prick".

That left Mr. Monson and his associate Michael Mitchell to deal with Weinerth, Hanks and Goudie. Hanks and Goudie recently lodged a case against Google at Bangkok Criminal Court demanding stories about them be erased from the internet under the European 'Right to be Forgotten' ruling.

All deals were called off last week after Bill Monson, from Seattle, refused to attend a meeting without a witness present.  But he had already been warned that a probable sting was going down.

The group had demanded a payment of US$7 million of 5 per cent of whatever Monson would win They requested he sign over a Power of Attorney to act on his behalf.

The last person who signed over a POA to Brian Goudie was former Ulster drugs trafficker Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday to raise cash for his hospital bills.  Jimmy Halliday had been released from prison to be treated in hospital in Pattaya for the flesh eating disease ‘necrotising fasciitis’.  But he died and Goudie used the POA to seize all his properties.

Goudie who called himself Jim Macdonald or 'Mac'
identified by Mike Mitchell (right)
Brian Goudie was exposed by the Sunday Mail as a fake lawyer who was cheating customers with his expensive barristers’ fees.

He is currently on trial in Pattaya charged with posing as a barrister to cheat a 76-year-old woman from Madison, Wisconsin out of 7.9 million Thai baht (£146,000) to defend her son on child sex abuse charges.  Her son was subsequently jailed for 38 years but a mistrial has now been ordered.

Goudie did not sue the Sunday Mail but he sued the journalist Andrew Drummond in Thailand and subsequently lost.




David Hanks identified by Mike Mitchell
David John Hanks, is the former owner and licence holder of Masquerades Brothel in Keysborough, Victoria, Australia. He is currently on bail in Thailand charged with racketeering. It is alleged he made loans to Russians demanding 60 per cent interest per month.

According to a report by Thailand’s Department of Special Investigations Russians, who did not pay up, were beaten up. Three other Russian were arrested at the same time.



Drew Noyes - identified by Mike Mitchell
Drew Walter Noyes, is currently on trial in Pattaya for extortion.

It is alleged that together with his Thai common-law-wife he demanded first 7 million baht, later reduced to 2.3 million baht (£42,000) from Australian Michel Goulet to stop a police raid on the premises of Thonglor Beauty Clinic in Pattaya, where illegal substances would be found. Goulet would also receive bad publicity in Noyes’ newspaper the Pattaya Times (now closed).

Noyes had claimed he had contacts with the police which would make this happen.





Finally Jerry Weinerth, identified by Mike Mitchell
Jerry Weinerth,  the go-between, used to work out of the offices of the Pattaya Times. He is a former newspaper ad salesman. He came to Thailand after his house in Hawaii burned down. He calls himself the American  'Go To Guy'.





THE ANATOMY OF A STING

Bill Monson had been trying for years to get justice is the Thai courts but with Thaksin as Prime Minister although he won cases nothing actually came his way.

A successful American media mogul he had arrived in Thailand to help set up cable television, pager and mobile phone services, and he was told that Thaksin, a former policeman, who was then making money selling IT products to police, was the man to deal with.  Thaksin ended up taking over all his operations, even at one time ordering Monson’s arrest.

Offices of PAPPA and One Stop Service Center (sic)
Two years ago a close friend of Monson, Mike Mitchell, himself a successful American businessman met Jerry Weinerth on a flight from Narita in Tokyo to Bangkok.
He told Weinerth about Monson’s problems and Weinerth convinced him to attend a meeting in Pattaya at the PAPPA.One Stop Service Center offices of Drew Noyes in Thepprasit Road, Pattaya.

It was in these offices that Mitchell said he met Drew Noyes, David Hanks and Brian Goudie, aka Goldie, who was then calling himself ‘Jim Macdonald’.

“Drew Noyes promised the world. He said he was a lawyer and knew everyone in Thailand that mattered, he said. He could get any foreigners arrested in Pattaya whenever he wanted.  
“I realized very quickly that Drew Noyes was full of sh@t’, said Mitchell. 
"I knew that before doing any research.  Then I did my reasearch. I was guided to if by Drew Noyes telling me he was dealing with a rogue journalist whom he would soon put in jail. So after a few days I told the others I did not want anything to do with Drew Noyes and would advise Bill accordingly.”

David Hanks and Jerry Weinerth at Pattaya Provincial Court where they acted as bodyguards for Drew Noyes who
is charged with attempting to extort the bosses of the Thonglor Clinic in Jomtien


'Get rid of the jerk'

The other three however wanted to keep the door open to negotiate with Monson and act as his lawyers.

“They agreed. They said they thought Drew Noyes was a jerk and a prick too, but the deal could still go ahead without him,” said Mr. Mitchell.

They met again with Mike Mitchell this year just as the World Cup was playing off in Brazil.  And they almost got Bill Monson hooked.


Said Mitchell:“The man ‘Mac’ whom I now know as Goudie had a very convincing manner. He said he had done some research and found that Bill had been badly advised by his previous lawyers who were cheating him.  He said he could bring cases against Thaksin for the recovery of equipment and then after that more and more cases. There was no statute of limitations on these cases as Bill had been advised.  He sent me emails outlining his position.

Goudie posing as Jim Macdonald (Goudie was born in 1967) 'Four brains better then one'. In this case probably not.
His legal team at the time was a team of one Supanya Worakam who has never worked at the bar - well not the legal kind





Thaksin
“I had to say, yes, Mac was very convincing. And I reported back to Bill who asked me to look at it further.  But the more I looked the worse these guys appeared.  
“They could not stop talking about themselves.  Mac/Goudie had told how he had seen Thaksin in Dubai and Thaksin had sent a Bentley to pick him up at the airport. Thaksin, he said, was remorseful and might even settle with Bill personally.



Worthy but meaningless. Goudie seeks the frozen '30 million' claiming a first year law student could do better
than Monson's lawyers.  Goudie never even completed one day at law school.

“Looking back I do not know why I listened to all this cr@p.  They kept trying to get me to persuade Bill to sign a POA. 
“Meanwhile David Hanks, who also said he was a lawyer, started talking about his brothel. He said: ‘Look. You are going to hear bad things about me but it’s all rubbish.’

Goudie seeks POA

“I thought, what the hell is going on with this guy. Why is he telling me this?  He also said he knew all the main characters in an Australian television documentary series called ‘Underbelly’.  
“He regaled me with underworld stories of how the villains in Australia froze their victims’ bodies, because then they were easier to cut up with a saw. It was all over the top stuff.


‘Then to cap it all they rang me up and said they wanted to take me out for a drink. And they took me to Pattaya Soi 6. A street of bars with low rent prostitutes charging thirty bucks for sex in an upstairs room.  It was all gross.





"But even these girls were too expensive for Jerry. He said he got all his 'one night stands' from dating sites. That way he did not have to pay any fees. 

“I thought about Bill who is a strict church going Christian and what he would think of these people.

Drummond

“Then Mac also said that I might hear bad things about him and see his photograph.  But they were all written by a bad journalist and he was suing the pants off the journalist. But by then I had read it all and knew which side I believed and was determined to sort these guys out." 

At this stage Mike Mitchell started recording all his skype calls and contacted journalist Andrew Drummond (owner of this site) in Bangkok and a meeting was arranged with Bill Monson, who agreed to play the phony lawyers along for a little longer.

Said Bill Monson: “Last week our conversations were terminated. I had agreed to a meeting if I could bring along a witness. Weinerth refused.  I have better things to do than to talk to these people."

 He said he had known for quite a while what sort of people these were and would be raising the matter with officials of the ruling military government and would  support Andrew Drummond in Bangkok.




A Wikileaks cable from former US Ambassador Ralph L Boyce

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GOING BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

August 11, 2014, 4:32 am
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Legal eagles.
An application by two Scotsman to force Google to remove material about them on the internet has been rejected by the Bangkok Criminal Court in Thailand.

The legal submission made by Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk and David Hanks, from Girvan, Ayrshire, demanding the ‘right to be forgotten’ was found to be inadmissable and both have been informed.

Goudie, who is on trial in Thailand for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 76-year-old American woman out of £146,000 in legal fees, had publicised the law suit on his Google website Casewatchasia.blogspot.com. – a site which appears to be dedicated to demolishing the reputation of his enemies. The site has not been updated with the rejection. Goudie and Hanks cannot use the Thai courts to order Google to remove material from the internet, the judge ruled.

David Hanks, 66, is the former licensed owner of Masquerades Brothel in Keysborough, a suburb of Melbourne,

Both Scots featured in a story in the Scottish Sunday Mail and later on this site yesterday. This followed complaints from American Bill Monson and his associate Michael Mitchell that the two Scots posing as lawyers had tried to persuade him to part with US$5million to allow them to secure over US$100million from the frozen assets of former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

Bill Monson, President of Clearview Television, Seattle, had been involved in a multi-million law suit with the exiled Thai Premier, claiming that Thaksin had taken his, paging, cable tv and mobile phone businesses from him.

Monson and Mitchell had led the Scots on but baulked at a final meeting when they were refused to have a witness present.

Goudie features in the documentary by Makeworld Media ‘Brian Goldie – Swindler Scot’ in the series ‘Serial Swindlers’.

In Australia under the name Brian Goldie, he was jailed for six years for defrauding a West Australia mining company, where he had secured a job in the account department.

Rejecting his plea to stay in Australia, the Australian Appeal Tribunal described him as ‘not a person of good character’.

Last week the provincial court in Koh Samui rejected a plea by Hanks to have www.andrew-drummond.com, run by a Bangkok based British journalist, blocked in Thailand on the grounds of contempt of court. The same court also rejected a plea by Goudie to have all stories and photographs about him removed.

The law suit against Google was in fact one of multiple attacks on and attempts to close this site.
Other attempts have been made by American Drew Walter Noyes, one time publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper who is on trial in Pattaya with his 'wife' Wanrapa Boonsu for extortion.

Seated - Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu


#DavidHanks #BrianGoldie #BrianGoudie #DrewNoyes #DrewWalterNoyes

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Casewatchgoudie.blogspot

BRIAN GOUDIE AND ALBA LAWS - MAKING THE LEGAL NEWS:

CASES LOST: libel against Andrew Drummond, Pattaya Provincial Court - with reference to story in Sunday Mail headed "Fiend's Friend'

Contempt of court and request to remove all stories about him from www.andrew-drummond.com Koh Samui Court - application refused.

Brian Goude and David Hanks V Google - dismissed, Bangkok Court

Civil case awarded 7.9million baht to Barbara Fanelli Miller, Pattaya Provincial Court

SETTLED BY JUDGES ORDER: Criminal case for fraud brought by John Jepson, posing as a lawyer to demand fees for legal case and take Bangkok condo in lieu of fees.   Ordered to return the condo and forfeit downpayment as rent. Charges withdrawn. Pattaya Provincial Court.

CASES ON GOING: Had to use outside lawyers. Criminal case 2 charges. Posing as a barrister to defraud Barbara Fanelli Miller out of 7.9 million baht.

Criminal/civil case: Koh Samui Court: Failure to pay 7.9 million to Barbara Fanelli Miller.

Criminal libel: Andrew Drummond, Alistair Cooper V Goudie, David Hanks and Drew Noyes libel ongoing in Bangkok Criminal Court

Civil Case: Libel. Alastair Cooper V Goudie, Hanks, and Drew Noyes, Bangkok Civil Court

CASES BROUGHT BY GOUDIE

Criminal libel and computer crime libel case against Andrew Drummond. Alleged that Drummond posted mocked up pictures of him on the internet a barrister, Royal Marine captain, and in leathers in a gay parade, to cause him shame and embarrassment. Investigation completed. Judges decision Aug 27.

Criminal libel and competer crime case against Drummond and Cooper. Summonsed not delivered properly. Given seven days to comply.

COMPLAINTS PENDING: 

Peter Morris, Alan Dempsey and one other. Accused of pocketing funds awarded to clients by judge at Pattaya Provincial Court  and cheating clients.

Boonrod Baikratok V Brian Goudie: Complaint to Technical Crime Suppression Division with allegation that Brian Goudie filmed then posted pornographic material of Thai girlfriend and placed in on the internet.

Both cases referred by Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok to Pattaya Police for action.

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25 YEAR LEASES – OPTICIANS DID NOT SEE IT COMING

August 13, 2014, 3:11 am
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Flying Sporran’s Koh Samui Diary

Ten German speaking opticians, who thought they had bought properties and renewable 20 and 25 year leases in Coconut Village on Koh Samui appear to have been turfed out – as they did not own the properties and the leases were not renewable.

There does not appear to be any legal action taken by the opticians so one has to assume they were mistaken in their beliefs, but other buyers on another development Coconut Grove, who include Brits, are frantically checking their position with the land office, as they believe they have watertight renewable lease deals and own the bricks and mortar.

At the centre of the controversy is legendary is Koh Samui optician and land developer Norbert Verweyen who now runs something called ‘OK Properties’ and is offering homes for sale on, yes you have guessed it, Coconut Village and Coconut Grove.

Despite his claim to be the recipient of a Royal Award of ‘unparalleled’ and undisputed merits’ in relation to some Taekwando Championships, Norbert is being dragged through the court in Bangkok for libeling one of his opponents.

And already he has had to settle out of court and hand over two villas and two land plots to a British retired banker, er, well risk assessor, who was persuaded to invest some 30 million in Norbert’s businesses only to find his shares were transferred to someone else.

Norbert's Kingdom - Infinity overlooks them all (see below)



Verweyen is famous for his litigations - I think he has taken some eighty cases against property owners in his projects - and they are the victims.

Gone are the days when Mr. Verweyen had the backing of the late godfather Khamnan Dam and he has already been kicked out of control of the Santi Thani development. His next libel case is on August 26 in Bangkok. Perhaps his luck will change.

COSTA DEL CRIME ARRIVALS 

Whacky at 'Dreamers' - now closed
Having been warned by a media person I was ‘dead meat’ if I showed up in Bangrak in Koh Samui, the favoured spot for new arrivals from Spain’s Costa del Crime the natural things for me to do was to go there for an evening which I duly did, particularly to the bars where the Brits were allegedly plotting.

I am responsible for outing Walter ‘Whacky’ Douglas who early this year was sent back to the UK to face passport charges but I manage to get on with most villains in controlled circumstances,  it’s the pseudo ones I have the problems with.

Having said that the rumours were probably spread by our famous lawyer Brian Goudie who is linked to Whacky through the Tongsai Bay Company.

I admit to having quite a pleasant evening and was included in at least three rounds ordered by Brits who had an edge about them but little else. Most were dribbling long before I left.  I was of course besieged in most bars by young and not so young Thai women. In the first bar the woman concerned did not get past the ‘What your name?’ line as I managed to call myself and leave the bar to answer my own call, several times.

But by the last bar the hostess had managed to progress to: ‘Where you from?’ and ‘What hotel you stay?’ I did not answer the last question but I do have a mysterious new name in my mobile phone and a new Facebook friend from Buri Ram.



In fact I was staying at Infinity Resort in Bang Pho, Samui, on the top left corner of the island and about 30 minutes from the local court….and what a place.

This is the ideal getaway. There is no funicular railway to this place half way up a mountain on Samui.  You either drive yourself, or get picked up. I was of course not at risk, but had I been this would have been the ideal location.


Access to the private suites is by buggy. Once there I was treated to a massive two bedroomed luxurious suite with pool and clear views over to Koh Phangan; and a beautiful white washed restaurant with the same view.

I really wish I had brought the kids. They would have had the time of their lives and it seemed to be a favourite place for families although condoms were placed discreetly in the room.

Travelling from the suite to reception without the buggy is something of an Olympian task though and would take the stuffing out of most potential assassins.

#OKProperties, #BrianGoudie #NorbertVerweyen, #KohSamui #Bangrak #InfinityResort

The author was transported to Koh Samui by Bangkok Airways and hosted by Mai-BS at the Infinity Resort.

And finally from Brian Goudie's 'briangoudie.blogspot.com' comes the following


Well, well, well. If this is living proof that Goudie has lost the plot this is it. Is he now trawling the white power websites to get info on anti-fascists?  Sonia Gable I do not know, nor have I met her. But lets wait and see.

MURDER BEATINGS AND INFINITY POOLS ON A TROPICAL ISLAND

STRIKE BACK! EXPATS FIGHT BACK AGAINST VEXATIOUS LITIGANT
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HOW TO HIDE PROPERTY IN THAILAND WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

August 14, 2014, 12:20 am
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The Anti-Money Laundering Office has come out with a statement saying that big banks are facilitating fraud. Well no news there. 

That is what they have been doing for years – after all if someone sends you a few million why ask too many questions? That has been the attitude.

HSBC did not seem to mind banking for the Columbian drugs cartels. It seemed almost a sham they were found out. But internationally things are now getting tighter regarding the transfer of large amounts of cash.

HSBC Hong Kong might want to look at some deposits in their branch at 82-84 Nathan Road, Tsin Tsa Shin Hong – particularly at account no 817-108674011-838 held by a Mr. Brian Goudie who has a company in Hong Kong called Ramidin (Hong Kong) Holdings.

Fisher
The Hong Kong financial regularity authority the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission might want to do this as well –. Ramidin (Hong Kong) does not trade and never has done.

It’s a receiving company for ill-gotten gains founded by a Mr.Brian Goudie, aka former  Australian convicted E0000274 Brian Gerald James Goldie.

In Thailand the Anti-Money Laundering Office might want to look at a another reeiving company called Ramidin Holdings, which sounds very similar,  also run by Brian Gerald James Goldie and also look at past deposits dating back to 2009. Wow, this guy was loaded, or at least he was when large deposits were paid into the Bangkok Bank in Pattaya, Na Klua. The Thai government must be due some tax with such income.

There is no such person any more as Goldie, though, even though that was the name Goudie was born with. So why is he signing his name in English – Goldie?

Roof of the house seems a bit leaky - and the wood has rotted

So what were all these millions being deposited in banks in Hong Kong and Thailand for? Well actually property investment. It seems to be the same property on Koh Samui in which Kevin Fisher, an associate of Goudie, has also bought into.

The original investors did not get their property even though the best part of US$1 million was handed over. And even though, I should add, they claim Goudie personally went to Dubai to talk to Thaksin Shinawatra so that everything was above board.

But he has a spanking new office to live in.

Anyway I have been watching Mr. Goudie on the internet and he is still promoting Bang Khao Bay Residences in Koh Samui and Mr. Fisher has been telling friends his investment is water-tight. Well it is of course until AMLO and the DSI get to find out.
Seems rather close to the beach

I took some pictures and two days later the Mr. Goudie screeched to a halt in his panzer-wagon, as he caught me going for a Pizza in Nathon, the island’s capital last week winding down the window giving himself enough time to shout: “The police are looking for you – you fucking scumbag”.


Hong Kong Ramidin Goldie
It turned out that Goudie had tried to report me for trespass.  I saw the officer who took the complaint at Koh Samui Provincial Court the following day, Prince Rapee day at the Provincial Court.  Any complaints officer?  No problem, he said.

A tip for buyers. That back hoe has been around for ages doing nothing. Wait until you see something else being built and if you see it - don't buy because you won't know who you are buying off.

Thai Ramidin Goldie

So far linked as owning the Bangkao Bay Holding Company are Ramidin Holdings, Thailand, and TBS, and Kevin Fisher and their companies are of course full of Thai nominees.

Then there are companies like Jemro Developments. Pilawan Developments who seem also to have morphed into this business on a plot of land guarded by stray dogs on Samui.

Both Ramidin Hong Kong and Ramadin (Thailand) are in the control of Brian Goldie who does not exist as such any more.

Brian Goldie TBS
But this is only the beginning. Brian Goudie/Goldie is linked to Walter 'Whacky' Douglas through the Tongsai Bay Villa Management Company. Or at least it had the same telephone numbers for 'Whacky's' Dreamers Club in Bangrak, Koh Samui; and Kevin Fisher, of Cranes and Equipment Asia is linked to the infamous Gary Bellchambers, currently doing time in the U.K. for a fake golf club scam.

Bellchambers
Together they shared a company called 'Millenium Glory Entertainment Company'. Bell chambers was found guilty of a 'conspiracy of  truly global nature'.

Lost?

The paper trail goes on and on.........
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EVERY VICTIM OF THE LM FUND SCAM SHOULD READ THIS

August 14, 2014, 12:40 am
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IFA Martin Terpilowski to the South China Morning Post

If you think your financial adviser was tricked too when he sold you your policies in LM then read this and you may have to think again.

The website 'Rape of Hong Kong' which is dedicated to exposing investor frauds has published a letter Martin Terpilowski sent to LM boss Peter Drake after Drake put up the website we highlighted a few days ago.

What Terpilowski, who himself had clients in LM but tried for three years to get them out, describes is sickening to the core.

What happened with the Australian LM funds should have been spotted easily by a normal intelligent person - but greedy financial advisers were locked into 9 per cent indemnified commission.

This may make your heart sink. But what on earth are the authorities doing. Lots of accountants are charging high fees to find out what went wrong and what is left. But not a policeman in site.


"All I got was smart answers from you about not understanding the asset class as well as some megalomaniac comments. Both you and Venier seemed actually angry with me for meddling in your ‘great’ business model, as you ran around Asia cozying up to Advisers.. 

"Life companies wanted to protect their market share so ignored and the advisers bought nicer cars and had better holidays and actually showed off about this on social media websites (many of those also have megalomaniac tendencies) - The whole thing was sick and you were ALL party to this.  

"You all worked in collusion, so clients never knew the reality when investing. I wish I had done more now, but I will not listen to the excuses from any of you people. I have reams of emails to you all, which I will publish and show your formally ‘matey relationship’ with advisers and life companies and how I was just the trouble maker then" -





So says Terpilowksi who promises more

Go here



*Venier - Martin Venier - LM salesman

WHEN AN INVESTMENT FUND GOES BAD - SCMP - Benjamin Robertson

Protest the fraudulent products

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August 14, 2014, 4:54 am
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DUE DILIGENCE IS NO GOOD - IF IT COMES FROM THE PEOPLE YOU ARE CHECKING OUT!

Here is the latest picture of the site for a condo project in Pattaya which has had rave review in the press and on property websites.  Construction should have started way back when and should be completed shortly – but wait - What’s that?  A ‘For Sale’ sign?


Indeed, investors who have put money in Abatalay Condo – on the menu of a company called CW Assets – might want to call their lawyers now. They might want to get together too.

Thai Police are not much interested in foreigners being defrauded in condo deals in Thailand.

Nor it seems are Consumer Protection Departments keen to investigate. To get your cash back you might need to team up so at least ten of you can bring civil (or criminal) cases – depending on what you find you.

Let’s hope they pay your cash back before offering to put it instead to a future venture.

Here's what punters were promised

But check previous stories on this site. They may help you decide. There is an amusing email exchange with the boss.

Apparently if you ring the number on the board you get the angry owner of the land who says CW Assets never paid.

All they ever forked up was 100,000 baht two years ago – but they have taken cash on some 150 apartments.

That means potential buyers would have had to have put 30,000 baht down plus 1/3 of the purchase value within 21 days – another 300,000 baht.

Who is registry for Abatalay. The email wild246@gmail is that of Ian Silver who registered Abatalay and
several other sites



So could this have happened before - oh dear yes. Royal View Talay went up in smoke involving that guy with the wild246 gmail account.

from newpattaya

Readers of this site will know we warned what CW Assets could be up to a long time ago.

from asiatradingonlinr


But wait CW Assets paid for this land outright. Did not they tell us all so? This below is what they company put on the internet so that prospective buyers should be be assured. CW Assets called it 'Due Diligence'.

(We have saved this together with url if victims need it later)

Well no they did not of course which is why the actual owner of the land had the contract cancelled - see below right.
Imorn Luekhamharn - the 'boss.

Now Abatalay has been pulled completely from CW Asset’s website so I called the company and spoke to a guy calling himself John.

AD:‘What’s happened to Abatalay”, I asked.

J:‘Oh. I spoke to the owner and he said we were waiting for EIA approval (environmental investigation).’

AD:‘But, John, Abatalay is no longer even on your website.’
J:‘Yes, I must mention that to the owner’.
Cancellation of land sale contract. No 9 million
baht was ever paid!

AD:‘But John there is a for sale sign on the land where Abatalay is mean to be – and the number on the for-sale sign is not CW Asset’s.

J:“Is that true? Thank you for telling me. I must tell the owner that.

AD:“Yes, John and you should tell the 150 people who have put down money there.”

J: “Yes, that’s true”.

AD: “Goodbye John”.

J: "Goodbye and Thank you”.

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!

Flying Sporran Reader
Service
Note to potential victims: Its probably best to get together on this rather than try and complain individually if you do not get your money back. You can contact each other through this site if needs be.

(Click the links below to see how we followed this case)


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CONVERSATIONS WITH A FUND MANAGER PART I - TO LIE FOR THE 'GREATER GOOD'

August 15, 2014, 5:15 am
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Martyn deals with high end clients a couple of whom have also been affected. Having had brushes with IFAs in the region he describes many as 'low life parasites'. He has not undergone a conversion, he says. He always played the game straight.






This may not make for easy reading for
expatriates who have lost their life savings only to find that what funds they might have recovered are being devoured by others in the financial industry, while Australia's Financial Regulator ASIC has shown itself to be less than competent.

But that's life. Read on.



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'BOTH FUNDS ARE IN EXCELLENT SHAPE - SOME EVEN THOUGHT LM MANAGED PERFORMANCE FUND HAD TOO MUCH CASH' - PETER DRAKE

From: LM Investment Management Ltd [mail@LMaustralia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:42 PM
To: Martyn Terpilowski
Subject: LM Managed Performance Fund and The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected

Dear Martyn,

I have had feedback from various advisers regarding my last correspondence to you regarding the above two LM funds.

Many of the respondents thought that I might have had “a hidden message” in there somewhere or a soft warning that all was not well with the LM Managed Performance Fund. Some even thought that the LM Managed Performance Fund had “too much cash” and you should therefore now utilise the LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected for your client’s income. Can I say that none of the above is true, relevant or correct and I apologise for raising your concerns.

To the contrary, both funds are in excellent shape with endless opportunities for investment into prime Australian property first mortgages and ventures. My real purpose was to convey to you as a professional adviser/intermediary that the two funds, whilst at a glance appear the same or similar, can in fact be applied to different investors for many different reasons and needs.

The LM Managed Performance Fund brings good solid income with a great track record in a well managed property asset sector. The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected is similar, but offers more flexibility in application, more liquidity and shorter investment terms if required.

Again, I am sorry for my poor communication to you in the last correspondence.

Regards,

Peter Drake

'YOUR IDEA OF EXCELLENT SHAPE WORRIES ME!- Martyn Terpilowski


From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 3:28 PM
To: Peter Drake; Lisa Darcy; Shauna Larkin
Cc:
Subject: FW: LM Managed Performance Fund and The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected

Peter

If the fund was holding cash – they should consider paying some of the people in the ‘queue’, which appears to be an amazing ‘queue’, which never gets any shorter and no one knows what position they are in, in the ‘queue’. This has gone on for 2 yrs whilst you continue to take money in through offshore (obviously) brokers. We hear all this about how well the fund is doing and how you are going to sell some assets to pay redemptions, but the fund has no liquidity so nobody knows the reality. Poor old Heather has come and gone, probably after realising things are not getting any better down there. The whole thing is worrying and has been worrying for a long time. I know you think the whole industry should be based on ‘trusting’ you and you have surrounded yourself by people who do, but educated people do not buy it. It is pure semantics that there is a ‘queue’ and the fund is not closed for redemptions. We have people who have been in that queue for 19mths, so basically it is closed to redemptions. They do not trust you Peter – not one iota. 99% of funds that stop making redemption payments, stop taking money in – that is legal requirement in the US and UK. I would have thought in Australia too actually and I guess it is not still being sold there by brokers. There are reasons for that. No one knows the true state of this fund when you cannot get money out. Whatever you seem to think – that is a fact.

Your idea of ‘excellent shape’ worries me and shows a lack of being in touch with reality. I am not sure any other fund manager would come out with that, in this situation. We have heard such things before from certain other managers that we have discussed before and we all know where they are now!!!!

Get this ‘queue’ moving please. We are very uneasy here.

Thanks

Martyn


'BRILLIANT RESPONSE' - Drake

From: Peter Drake [pdrake@lmaustralia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 2:51 PM
To: Martyn Terpilowski; Lisa Darcy; Shauna Larkin
Cc: ’
Subject: RE: LM Managed Performance Fund and The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected

Brilliant response.

'SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE FOR THE GREATER GOOD'

From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 4:05 PM
To: Peter Drake; Lisa Darcy; Shauna Larkin
Cc:
Subject: RE: LM Managed Performance Fund and The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected

Clearly better than yours. You actually seem to think this is acceptable. I know that you also seem to think I am a trouble maker here, but remember one thing – I was a big supporter of LM before this. I was originally lied to about the redemption issues, when told there was no issue, to later find out from our client that there was and had been already for a number of months. Since then, over the last two years, we have just had this run around as described below.

I am not sure what kind of response you want or what kind of people give you the response you want, but you are clearly completely out of touch with reality to think is acceptable.

If this was not offshore, we would clearly be making complaints to the regulator. Any decent company would do. The actions and answers of LM Investments have not been good enough and if you were on my side of the fence talking to the clients face to face, you would agree. You respond like this, in our meeting you got angry and quoted Richard Nixon ‘sometimes you have to lie for the greater good’ – and you really think you are in touch with reality or behaving as a CEO should. Sorry, but me and my clients do not and I have to try and protect my clients. All of this is very worrying.

I really fear the worst sadly and this just worries me more.

Rgds

Martyn

'THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD EVER QUOTYE NIXON' - Drake

From: Peter Drake [pdrake@lmaustralia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 3:31 PM
To: Martyn Terpilowski; Lisa Darcy; Shauna Larkin
Cc:
Subject: RE: LM Managed Performance Fund and The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected

There is no way that I would ever quote Nixon, or believe that is a relevant statement.

'REALLY THIS IS WHAT SCARES ME'...TAKING MONEY IN AND NOT PAYING OUT IS ILLEGAL IN MOST COUNTRIES - AND HAS A NAME - Martyn Terpilowski


From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 14 June 2011 16:57
To: ’Peter Drake’; ‘Lisa Darcy’; ‘Shauna Larkin’
Cc:
Subject: RE: LM Managed Performance Fund and The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected

Ometosando
Mate you did and it shows the pressure you are under and your loss of touch with reality – this is the scary part. It was in Ometosando at your serviced office. [XXXX] was there and Heather was there. I would stand up in court and say this – it happened.

It was just after I had been lied to completely about redemptions by numerous LM employees, including yourself and Eghard, the Portfolio Manager. Do you really think I just made that statement up this afternoon and attributed it to you? Really – this is what scares me. I am not one of those stupid brokers who believe what I am told, I did however once trust LM, but I have lost good friends through the lies I have been told and in turn told them, so my trust has gone completely.

Taking money in and not paying out is illegal in most countries and has a name – and you know what that name is, so whatever way you slice and dice this, there is something wrong and your reactions create an even bigger concern. Many companies had gating issues during the crisis, but you have dealt with this in the most worrying way – through lies and continuing to take in money.

You also do not seem to think there is anything wrong with that. With your experience in finance I some how think you probably do know it is very wrong actually and that is what scares me.

You seem to have no choice but to come out with these big statements and show sheer confidence and get the same from your employees, but I am looking at this very objectively and I am thinking do I see a happy ending here?

And I just don’t, because out of all the companies I have dealt with during the last few years LM exclusively have dealt with it this way and hid behind semantics whilst selling through unscrupulous agents, who are clearly not telling their clients when signing them up for a 1 yr investment that based on current waiting lists that actually means 3 years.

I have met guys in Tokyo, who have bought this off a broker after telling them that they wanted to buy a house in 12-18mths. This is open to abuse and you know that, but then you can hide behind this and say that it was the agents responsibility – but no, it is yours as you are the guy that knows you should not take money in when it is not being paid out, as that clearly opens you up to this kind of accusation, whether it is the case or not. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to work that out.

If you wanted to maintain your reputation and there were really no issues why would you deal with it like this? no one else did? It makes no sense… If anyone believes that it is business as usual like you are saying, with all this information available, they are sadly deluded. I sincerely hope I am wrong Peter and I really hope that you sort this out, but even if you do, the lies and some of the other issues highlighted have been very wrong. Sorry – but that is the case.

Rgds

Martyn

THE RAPE OF HONG KONG  An excellent read for other financial scams too like this one.


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FORMER MAN ABOUT TOWN SLIPS INTO THE SHADOWS AGAIN - BUYERS WORRIED!

August 16, 2014, 2:03 am
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 ANOTHER PATTAYA MADE MAN - BUT THIS ONE STAYS IN THE CLOSET.


Richard Ian Silver an American linked to the collapse of a condo project in Pattaya called Royal View Talay – was also the managing director of CW Assets – a company which has taken money from foreigners for condos in a building which has not been constructed and on land it does not own.

Records show that Imorn Leukhamharn, 26, who owns CW Assets with her family from the north eastern province of Kalasin may have been less than frank when last year we asked why payments were going into a PayPal account of Ian Silver from Florida, USA.

She asked: “Who is Ian Silver? In an internet Google search for Ian Silver we found 90,500,000 entries so your guess is as good as ours as to who is Ian Silver.”

In fact records with the Department of Business Development show that on the 10th of October 2011 Richard Ian Silver became managing director of the company, which has been touting the Abatalay Condo project in Pattaya and he had authority over the company and shareholders.


At one stage he held 9,799 shares while Imorn held 10,200 in the company, registration no. 0205553011823.
Imorn

But a month later things changed again as they often to in this business and Silver was removed as shareholder, and company managing director too.
























But despite his disappearance from the company books evidence shows that Silver remained, if not hands on in the company, a person to whom deposits on condos were made.

On April 11 2013 we published a story stating that a buyer had complained that his deposit was paid into the PayPal account of Ian Silver – which apparently CW Assets was using. This was when Ms. Imorn denied knowledge of him.

On April the company received another 20 million baht capital and the shareholding was changed so that now Ms. Imorn held 199,998 shares while others with the same surname, presumably members of her family held two shares.


The decision to keep Silver in the background may be connected to the collapse of the Royal View Talay project in Pattaya, in which an untold number of people had lost their investments.

Mr. Silver had attracted some bad publicity – such as this above. But very little is known about him apart from the fact that he was behind the now defunct Pattaya Info magazine, and as publisher of such invited to be a judge at a beauty contest of Pattaya bar girls, an event which was reported in the Pattaya Mai. Silver it seems is a bit of a lad.

Silver, it was reported, was seen sneaking off to investigate the “form” at every available opportunity, but that's I guess how they wrote beauty contests up on the Pattaya Mail at the time because it followed by this: 'The sixteen young ladies were first judged in evening gowns, each giving flashing smiles to the judges as the trio all elbowed each other making noises like “Aaarrggghhhh, and Ooooowwwerrrrhhh” which is thought to be secret judges language translated roughly as, “Get a load of the hooters on that one!" The Pattaya Mail has matured since then.

But that's a digression. All CW Asset projects seem to be small units, as little as 20 square metres – for single foreigners. Attractive low prices are offered which naturally attract a lot of buyers.

Some 150 investors who put cash into Abatalay were wondering why no foundations have been laid - and the land is up for sale. We had to break the news yesterday that CW Assets never owned the land.
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LM IS 'NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY

August 16, 2014, 5:47 am
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LM  BOSS - 'FED UP WITH THE IGNORANCE'


LM boss Peter Drake says he has decided to remove the internet blog he set up to justify his actions prior to the collapse of his funds which has left hundreds of people throughout Southeast asia improverished. He claims that he can no longer put up with the ignorance and abuse.

This last statement "Last Post' has attracted reams of more abuse – possibly because he has avoided questions put to him.

Drake says:

“The ignorance and abuse is not worth it. I am not sure that I can continue to write or say the way it was so many times.  
The commission was 2% on the Currency Protected Mortgage fund and 3% on the MPF. By world standards - very conservative commissions as was repeatedly to LM by the global IFA market.  
There was no lending to friends, no funds taken other than business profit. Over six years I have shared my profit with my de facto like other couples.  
LM was an extremely compliant business with a very flat structure. Every function was carried out by various committees, boards and groups acting in unanimous consent.
No one person had the power to move anything (including funds), lend anything or sell anything. The escalation of the Australian dollar was the catalyst for the end game."

Perhaps its time to bow out when people say:

"Whilst I must admit to being torn between wanting to smash your fuckin' brains in and actually wanting to listen to your explanations, I must admit Peter, that if your blog fucked right off, I wouldn't give a shit.

"You know why ? Because you never seem able to use the word 'Sorry'. Is that because your lawyers say that is an admission of guilt?"

Or

"Peter, how about a photo of you in rags? You know, with your pockets opened out to show you have nothing and a look on your face that say 'Me ? Look, I've got nothing too'. That might help us visualise your plight. 

"I have used vodka, cigarettes and medication to cope with what has happened. Without wanting to be melodramatic, you have changed my life. I am a different person to the one who first heard of LM from some prick in Bangkok. I will be haunted, forever, by you, so please, give us a new photo with the aforementioned pose. Something I can take with me into the future."

Or

"You and your IFA and Insurance accomplices deserve long terms of imprisonment. Your appalling lack of remorse is disgusting when you have ruined the lives of so many."

But one person wrote into say:

"Maybe all these people who are threatening Peter Drake should actually go back to their adviser and ask for an explanation why the adviser recommended to invest ALL of one's life savings into one fund? 

'Diversifying is the key, so no one else to blame than yourself and/or your adviser."

The question is must be how many clients found out that of their previously diversified funds  more than half or all were all put into LM MPF!

Thr question above was swiftly answered by Martin Terpilowski:

Yes advisers are guilty and 90% are scumbags but Drake indemnified their commission to 9% (+ I am now discovering - maybe 15%) to feed their greed... This suddenly became one of the biggest selling funds in Asia and Drake and his sales guy in HK Martin Venier ran around the region taking 'so called' Advisers out for nice dinners... The funds grew 300% in the last few years, purely due to commission levels. Since 2009 I have been trying to get my clients money out of these funds as I did not like the changes I was seeing at LM....My clients redemption requests were held in a 'queue' for 4 yrs before implosion... I predicted what would happen in many mails to Drake and advisers.. It is illegal in most countries to take money in and when there is a freeze on redemptions - It is also very clear at that stage, what the end result will be. Your adviser should have probably mentioned this to you."

Terpilowski, who has been representing corporate level clients from offices in Japan and Hong Kong, has decided to take on Peter Drake and has started publishing correspondence with Drake on www.rapeofhongkong.com and here. It looks like we are going to see a conspiracy. We shall be following this historical confrontation.


Links: Peter Drake's blog

Lindell Lucy's - The Rape of Hong Kong
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KOH SAMUI POLICE SPLASH OUT TO PROSECUTE BADLY BEATEN YOUNG AUSSIE

August 17, 2014, 6:04 am
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A GUEST OF KOH SAMUI -

Flying Sporran's Weekend Diary -

NOT A MARK - NOT A MEDICAL REPORT - BUT INJURED YOUNG AUSSIE ORDERED  TO SURRENDER TO BAIL FOR 'ASSAULTING' RICH KID



The energy which is being put in by Koh Samui police to prosecute a young Australian student who was badly beaten up on Koh Samui is sending alarm bells through the foreign community – if not the student’s mother Annie Hansen.

Koh Samui police are charging Jack Hansen-Bartel, a former scholarship student at the New International School of Thailand, with a misdemeanor and with (common) assault.

This follows a long presence on the island of Raymond Nobu Chang, the father of Raymond Chang (junior) who together with Ryan Wang, are accused of a brutal attack on Hansen-Bartel in a club on island in June.

Raymond Nobu Chang, an extremely wealthy Chinese businessman is due to attend the John F Kennedy School of Government in Harvard.

While asking the Koh Samui court for the return of the passports of his son and that of Wang, both of whom had just graduated the ‘Shanghai American School’  Mr. Chang (senior) said he had been tipped by Fortune Magazine in 2000 as one of the twenty-five Next Generation Global Leaders under 40.

Having not yet achieved this status, this may be why he is attending the Harvard Kennedy School.

Raymond Chang (senior)
He further added: “We are willing to meet any further additional which you may deem necessary to grant the removal his travel restriction.”

Jack Hansen-Bartel, from Mentone, Melbourne, Victoria, was knocked unconscious in the attack and said his mother in her letter to a Shanghai American school pupil, who called on the two Chinese-American students to own up apologise and compensate, had to undergo facial surgery which will continue for another year.



Chang (jun) and Wang
Raymond Nobu Chang has so far had no luck with the courts, but has been more successful with the police, who flew to Bangkok to investigate Jack, albeit in the presence of army officials of the National Council for Peace and Order, who said they wished to re-assure the mother that everything would be ‘transparent’.

So actually policemen, or maybe some others, are putting a lot more into the prosecution of Jack – a ‘model student’ at NIST, than into the investigation of the two wealthy American-Chinese, who now we are being asked to believe went to the aid of a supposed damsel in distress.

This half New Zealand half Japanese girl will feature prominently in all the trials if she returns to give evidence, but she is now attending Fordham University in the United States.

The costs of prosecuting Jack have already far exceeded the penalties he is likely to receive even if he is convicted. Misdemeanour fine 500 baht - 1000 baht, assault causing no physical harm, maybe 1000-2000 fine. The Thai tax payer has to pay that...perhaps. But that may not be the point. Koh Samui police could say that they are being even handed.

NCPO officers with Koh Samui policeman in Bangkok

The fear is that of course that somebody might be trying the well tested theory that the more money you throw at a case the more likely you are to win. This seems to work quite well in Thailand. But Mrs Hansen has confidence that she can prove her son was totally innocent.
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Now Annie has to pay lawyers and fly them and her son down to this holiday island to face cases against her son which were not pressed until a full month after the alleged attack - the day the two American-Chinese were refused their passports.

They had told the court in letters that they loved Thailand so much that they were renting a villa in Koh Samui for 12 months as 'this address'.  This address turned out to be a lawyer's office and belonging to one of Koh Samui's more famous ones.

Below is the comment on this story (republished) from Luke Kao a student at the Shanghai American School and promising film maker,  who tells his classmates to own up and apologies and the reply from Anne Hansen. The families of the two American Chinese boys have not commented publicly.

From Luke Kao

As a Shanghai American School alumnus of the same graduating class as Ryan Wang and Raymond Tony Chang, I would like to apologize for the actions of my peers. Please know that their actions are in no way representations of the average Shanghai American School student or the average Chinese-American youth; we really are better than this (although it might be hard to believe now). I don't know how or why the altercation happened, but I do know that the right thing for Raymond and Ryan to do right now is to owe up to their actions, apologize, and compensate. The moronic behaviors and bad choices of two boys and one of their fathers does not reflect us, and I hope I have salvaged Shanghai American School's reputation, even if by a marginal amount. So once again, sorry for the mindless and brutal actions of the two individuals I shamefully call my peers.

Dear Luke,

My name is Annie Hansen and I am Jacks mother. 9 weeks ago now my son was attacked by two SAS students.

Since that time my sons’ days have been filled with medical examinations, treatment, tears, pain and visits to the lawyers office. His speech is affected- as it turns out that one requires front teeth to verbally communicate clearly, he is unable to sleep through a night as he has nightmares and experiences pain and must get up to take pain relief normally once a night, sometimes twice. This pain intensifies if his head is not elevated for any length of time.

Jack was an avid sports player and has been his entire life. All Jack has known since the age of 2 was sport. To roll or kick around a ball- be it football basketball or an Australian Rules football. Any birthday was usually an arranged sports day with friends any spare time was either out at the football field, local basketball court or the fitness centre. I always encouraged this side of Jack as living a healthy and active life meant that he was completely adverse to drugs and he had stayed away from alcohol until recently as well. Jack now lives in a world that is unable to accommodate these active outside hobby's anymore. So frankly he is lost. 

Jack modeled part time since around the age of 8. He took various jobs that were fairly high paying for someone that did not look to this world as a serious full time career path. It gave him pocket money to save for the special times in his life such as the two trips he took to Samui in early June. He valued this money very much and was always reluctant to spend what he had earned. I used to tell Jack he was a bit "tight".

In May, Jack advised me that the best time of his life was about to come up. I asked him what this meant. He replied that that period of time between graduation and between starting university all of his friends in Bangkok were getting together, without the shackles of study and exams; just to simply enjoy each others company and strengthen life long bonds before each one departed for their own charted course.

Jack sits at home or in specialists' offices these days (and nights) knowing each day what his friends are doing - often only sois away from where he is. He knows that this "best " time of his life has been taken away.


Jack is faced with the inevitable, unavoidable fact that he faces a year to a year and a half of surgeries to reconstruct his mouth. These surgeries will be very painful for him and there is a recovery period between each one. He is advised that he can only ever expect an 80% recovery.

Jack has lived in Bangkok 15 years. Since he was a blonde haired, skinny, happy, kind hearted boy playing with all the Thai kids in the soi and speaking fluent Thai in 6 months of arriving in the country. Life here was, as a Buddhist, quite easy for Jack to navigate and, whereas many foreigners live a superimposed life as an expat in Bangkok, Jack was completely immersed in Thai life and had never had any trouble in 15 years.

My friends often commented on how incredibly lucky I was to have such a good and decent kid. This sense of decency is what earned him a part scholarship at NIST International School
Jacks Facebook isnt about starting business and becoming an entrepreneur or luxurious holidays in Turkey or South Africa. 

It has always been about friends, what sports team is playing, what last nights scores were, anything he had volunteered for recently with Operation Smile etc. Very basic stuff for a really salt of the earth, genuine young man .

You can imagine how unexpected the phone call from a hospital was on the morning of the 10th of June at 3am. You can imagine how when both attackers were identified, located and brought to the station by police, our surprise that they had not one scratch or mark on them. You can imagine our surprise when 6 weeks aft er my sons attack and with nowhere else left to go, two charges were laid against HIM by his attackers.  

The charges arose approx 2 hours after the judge had declared that the attackers had breached their bail conditions and were informed their passports were to be "surrendered" to the court. This occurred around 11 45 am on the 24th of July and the charges were drawn up that day at 1pm. And police are now also feeling forced into charging my son with assault while admitting they have  absolutely no medical evidence of such an act.


Imagine our surprise when in the statement of charges against Jack that Jack was ALSO now found to be molesting a woman that he had been relaxing and drinking with at a bar earlier in the evening. On witnessing this apparent molestation, these two courageous and brave attackers advised that they went to her defence. 

Jack being half their size though but so incredibly intoxicated that he would not let go of Tiffany and simultaneouly hit one in the chest who fell over and the other he hit in the head. All would be extremely laughable only I know from the police staff that the father representing both boys is there at the station each day demanding Jacks head on a platter. We receive regular reports. 

Jack has a wonderful family in Australia and they have been our rock throughout his time of need. We have wonderful friends who assist us at every twist and turn and there are many, Colonel Satit has been wonderful and happy to meet or talk at a moments notice and the Militarys NCPO and their military lawyers have spent hours pouring over evidence. So we are fortunate in some ways and we know this and are very grateful. Even through all this Jack and I still try to remember those things we are grateful for.

Luke you and some of your peers who came forward early on, and some since, I call courageous. You however are the first from #Shanghai American School  to publicly say to us that you are "sorry". 


Jack and his elder brother with army colonel and legal executives of the NCPO

Your comments made me cry. 

For the sincerity that went into them and for the kindness it illustrated. When we are dealing with very tough people like this, to see this kindness from a stranger that I know risks a lot to come out against fellow classmates - that is a big ask! I hope that in the same situation I would have the courage to write to someone in the manner you did. 


You seem like a very thoughtful and kind gentleman and remind me of Jack a lot actually.

So I just wanted to say thank you from both my son and from me. Your kindness and courage did reach from the US to Bangkok loud and clear!


#RaymondNobuChang #RyanWang @JackHansenBartel #AnnieHansen #GreenMango #KohSamui


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How LM Locked In Its Clients

August 18, 2014, 6:10 am
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Be careful out there and see how Thailand regulates these advisers
The Australian authorities cannot seem to find anything criminal about it. But in 2011 Peter Drake started locking in clients money to his funds for up to five years.

This was two years one fund had already gone belly up and punters were unable to get their money back. First he locked up clients for 3 years then came the four and five year stings.

Amazingly Drake put this down to 'investor demand'.

But what investor wanted to be locked into such a scheme when Drake's promises were already being exposed?

The secret was of course was to lure unscrupulous independent financial advisers with heavy cash incentives with huge initial payments.

Drake
Either the IFAs  completely swallowed Drake's claims that the LM Managed Performance Fund being sold throughout the Middle East and South East Asia, or they deliberately ignored the danger signals because of their greed.

A more cynical treatment of people's pensions is hard to find. Many IFAs did not tell their clients what they were doing.

Thus IFAs in Bangkok were buying new condos and cars while signing off their clients' pensions.

Clearly it did not add up. How could LM offer the highest incentives to IFAs and the highest rates to clients - only by taking in massive amounts of new cash - and Drake says it was not a Ponzi.

Managed performance? LM Managed Performance Fund cash was put into massively overvalued property in Australia.

Continuing Martyn Terpilowski's revelations:
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LM’s Announcement

From: ”LM Investment Management Ltd” <mail@lmaustralia.com>
Date: 1 November 2011 14:38:29 GMT+08:00
To: [XXXX]
Subject: Formal Rates for 1 to 5 Year Terms in LMs Conservative and Enhanced Income Funds

1 November 2011
For Distribution Through Advisers / Intermediaries Only

www.LMaustralia.com

Dear [XXXX],

Rates NOW Available for 1 to 5 Year Terms in the LM Managed Performance Fund and the LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected.

To meet current investor demand for longer term, consistent income we have formally introduced rates for four (4) and five (5) year investment terms in the LM Managed Performance Fund and the LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected.

Both Funds invest in only Australian assets benefiting from Australian’s stable and resilient economic performance.   Whilst the assets of each vest within the Australian property sector, they are different and complementary Funds within an investment portfolio.

The LM Managed Performance Fund and the LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected are available for investment in all major currencies across various fixed investment terms, without currency risk.  Each Fund has a demonstrated track record for consistently delivering its targeted outperformance of cash rates.  Investment rates are not fixed and differ according to the Fund, currency and investment term selected, with longer investment terms attracting slightly higher rates than the shorter terms.

The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected provides conservative income, achieving its performance target of around 2.00%pa to 3.00%pa above official cash rates through its investment in fully secured senior debt positions across the Australian property market.  Generally, the debt to security value ratio is around 65.00%.
Following is a snapshot of some of the current rates for the LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected.1

 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 4 Years 5 Years
 EUR 5.00%pa 5.25%pa 5.50%pa 5.75%pa 6.00%pa
 GBP 5.00%pa 5.25%pa 5.50%pa 5.75%pa 6.00%pa
 USD 3.25%pa 3.50%pa 3.75%pa 4.00%pa 4.25%pa
Download comprehensive rate sheets for the LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected, effective 1 November 2011 here.

The LM Managed Performance Fund provides enhanced income achieving its target performance of around 4.00%pa to 5.00%pa above official cash rates through proactive ownership like positions it takes within the Australian property market.  It structures its investment positions as commercial and development loans to ensure all profits are funnelled through the Fund and distributed to investors as income.
Following is a snapshot of some of the current rates for the LM Managed Performance Fund.1

 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 4 Years 5 Years
 EUR 6.00%pa 7.00%pa 8.00%pa 8.50%pa 9.00%pa
 GBP 6.00%pa 7.00%pa 8.00%pa 8.50%pa 9.00%pa
 USD 4.00%pa 5.00%pa 6.00%pa 6.50%pa 7.00%pa
Download comprehensive rate sheets for the LM Managed Performance Fund, effective 1 November 2011 here.

To access all rates, currencies and information on the Funds, please contact your LM Regional Manager or visit the relevant product page on our website.
The Directors
LM Investment Management Ltd
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© LM Investment Management Ltd 2011
Responsible Entity & AFSL No. 220281

Important Information:

1 Effective rates are net of 10.00% non-resident withholding tax.

LM is the product issuer, is licensed as a Fund Manager (Responsible Entity in Australia) and not as a provider of financial advice.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
The LM Australian Income Fund – Currency Protected is not a bank deposit and has a different risk profile to cash.
For calculations of interest distribution, please refer to the rate sheets linked in this communication.

Martyn Terpilowski’s Response to Peter Drake

From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:01 AM
To: ’Peter Drake’
Cc: ’Shauna Larkin’
Subject: FW: Formal Rates for 1 to 5 Year Terms in LMs Conservative and Enhanced Income Funds

Oh Peter

It is absolutely amazing that you can carry on getting away with this, but I presume unscrupulous brokers are only too happy to lock in the client for 5 yrs and take the commission every year when they know clients cannot get their money out anyway… As you know this is currently still being sold as a 1 year product even though my client has been in the ‘queue’ to get his money out for 2 years since his 1 year term ended… so that is 3 years and he thought he was investing for 1 year. Since I realised this I have obviously done no more LM business for investors wanting a 1 year product, but you continue to advertise as such and brokers continue to sell due to your commission levels… the whole thing leaves a very nasty taste in my mouth and the obviously if you get people ‘officially’ locked in for 5, rather than locked in anyway (when they thought it was 1 year) – it takes the heat of you.

I am guessing you indemnify the commissions and pay the full 5 yrs in day 1 also – to keep your ‘best brokers’ happy!!!!!

This fund is closed to redemptions but is still being sold to people as a 1 year product!!!! Do you think this is ethically correct? You hide behind semantics with the story of a ‘queue’ which may be true but reality is if you have people in the queue for 2 yrs plus it is closed and should not be sold… as I have told you before and I am sure you are aware – there are names for schemes like this and they cannot be sold in many regulated locations in the world…

Can I please have an update on [XXXX]‘s money?? He wants it back…. The fact he is still being mailed by Magellan trying to sell him more makes him absolutely furious…as he knows it is all lies, lies and more lies…

Rgds

Martyn
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LYING RICH KIDS GIVEN THEIR PASSPORTS BACK BY KOH SAMUI COURT

August 18, 2014, 11:20 pm
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WHAT NEXT FOR BATTLING AUSSIE MUM?

Two rich kids, who were charged in connection with a vicious attack on an Australian student in the Green Mango Club in Koh Samui and who then signed a fictitious lease for an apartment on the island to show they were not a flight risk,  were given their passports back anyway by a Koh Samui court today.


Ryan Wang
Chinese-Americans Raymond Tony Chang, junior, aged 18 and Ryan Yun Shang Wang, also aged 18, were given permission to leave to attend the beginning of the first semester of their respective American  Universities – Cornell and Purdue – and undertook to return to Thailand by September 3rd.

They were also asked to put down an additional 120,000 (US$3,769) baht bail each.

The attack took place on Koh Samui when several different international school groups were holidaying after graduating from their respective schools.

Wang and Chang had graduated from the Shanghai American School. Jack Hansen-Bartel, a scholarship student, had just graduated from NIST – the New International School of Thailand.


Annie Hansen, mother of Jack Hansen-Bartel, who was severely injured in the attack and had to have bone and skin grafts in treatment which will last another year, said she was shocked by the decision.

Jack Hansen-Bartel
“An order was made that we would be notified of any changes of their bail conditions so we would be able to appeal but we have not been informed. These boys previously sought bail so they could study and also attend their grandmother’s memorial service. But pictures show that Raymond was gallivanting around South Africa.”

On their return to Thailand they were asked to surrender their passports.

Raymond Chang is the son of Raymond Nobu Chang, a high flying executive and former CEO of several companies, who is due to attend the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Mass.

#RaymondNobuChang has rented a house in nearby  Lexington.

(In 1996 a Raymond Nobu Chang gave $300.00 to the March Fong Eu Aaa Committee. March Fong Eu was the first Asian American ever elected to State Constitutional Office in the United States. In 1966 she was elected to the California State Assembly campaigning against pay toilets (on the basis woman had to pay and men did not). She quit politics due to poor fund raising in 1987 and because her millionaire industraialist Singaporean husband failed to be frank about his business interests). She went on to become US Ambassador to Indonesia - wiki)

Chang had earlier told the court that in 2000 Fortune magazine had tipped him to be one of the 25 next generation future Global leaders under 40.

A document obtained by this website shows how Raymond Chang and Ryan Wang signed a lease agreement to rent an apartment on Koh Samui from the Thai law firm Limcharoen*, which has featured on this site in the past.


The document was dated June 8th – a day before the attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel. But checks at the address show no apartment. The address is actually the address of the offices of Limcharoen Legal.

But then again they might not want to rent a real apartment for three years when for the next three years they are meant to be at university in the U.S?

On bail and on safari in South Africa - Raymond Chang

Further statements made by Wang and Chang in order to get bail show how they claimed they had rented property here because they loved Thailand so much.
Jack at his graduation from NIST

It appears they changed their plea in the latest application to simply state they needed to go and study now.

The National Council for Peace and Order said it was monitoring this case because they wished to support foreigners as well as Thais and re-assure the mother of Jack Hansen-Bartel there would be transparency.

The two Chinese Americans are claiming that they went to the aid of a damsel in distress a New Zealand-Japanese girl who had graduated from the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo. They alleged Jack Hansen-Bartel was molesting Miss X who had been a holiday girlfriend of Wang.



Raymond Nobu Chang - heading for camera
However visual evidence obtained by this site shows quite a different scenario with her intertwined with Jack.

Jack claimed he had no further interest in the girl after an earlier confrontation when Wang literally grabbed her off him stating she was his girlfriend.

"I had no idea she had a boyfriend and she had not told me. I left very quickly to join my friends. The attack came later."

 This young woman who is now studying at Fordham University, New York, is a key witness in the case.


.Mrs Hansen said tonight that she was considering what steps to take to ensure justice for her son.

* Directors of the legal firm Limcharoen which is on the British Embassy lawyers list was the company which took over the Emerald Palace in Pattaya, the previous owners of which had taken cash from buyers and then mortgaged the property to the Kasikorn Bank. Limcharoen told the buyers they had to buy off the bank loan. Many did but those that did not and whom we connected with lawyers have been winning their cases in the courts and getting their property title deeds.


ARE PROMISES BY THE SAMUI COURT BEING HONOURED?

#RaymondNobuChang #RaymondTonyChang #RyanWang #RyanYunShangWang #Jack Hansen-Bartel #AnnieHansen #GreenMango #KohSamui
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ALBA LAWS SUPREMO SAYS 'I HAVE NO LAWYER' - BUT LEADS NEW CASE AGAINST GOOGLE

August 19, 2014, 6:30 am
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Handy Brian Goudie, formerly Goldie from Falkirk, Scotland
International con man Brian Goudie, having failed to take a case against Google in Bangkok claiming together with former brothel owner David Hanks the ‘right to be forgotten’ is now trying again in Kho Sami and claims that yesterday together with his lawyer he lodged new cases in the provincial court there.

According to his pseudo law site this fake lawyer is again taking the founders and the entire board of Google to court for allowing for offences against Thailand’s Computer Crime Act. Or is he?
It appears the complaints only come from David Hanks – an all-time sucker for Goudie’s schemes. So he will be footing the legal bills.

This would make sense because on the same day in Koh Samui Criminal Court Goudie turned up without a lawyer in a case brought against him by Barbara Fanelli Miller for failing to pay the 7.9 million baht he defrauded from her while claiming to be a barrister and advocate. He begged the court for time as he did not have a legal representative.

This is odd because Goudie obtained a work permit for a company called Alba Laws which is supposed to employ lawyers and thus be of benefit to Thailand. His last female lawyer left him rather hurriedly but may not be related to the fact that he put a picture up on the net showing his hand between her legs.

Hanks, from Girvan, Scotland
Hanks’ complaints against Google involve an unspecified website, at least not specified on his CasewatchAsia blogspot site, and make intriguing reading. He appears to be singling out one article in particular but does not say which.

‘The nature of this post is so incredibly disgusting that I am amazed that Google did not remove it. It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen written anywhere - and is completely false!' – Hanks is quoted as saying.

Readers are therefore invited to speculate as to what this post referred to.


Did it refer to:

1.His career as owner of the Masquerades Brothel in Keysborough, Victoria?
2.His attempt to pass himself off as a lawyer to con American TV mogul Bill Monson?
3.His arrest at the request of the Department of Special Investigations for racketeering in Pattaya by lending cash to Russians at 60 per cent a month.
4.Comments about his baby face.
5.A night out in Pattaya Soi 6 (Yodsak) with Brian Goudie, Jerry Weinerth and Mike Mitchell, a friend of Bill Monson.

Brian Goudie is currently on trial in the criminal case of posing as a lawyer to defraud Mrs Miller out of  7.9 million baht. He was also jailed in Australia for six years for theft, and described by the Australian Appeals Tribunal as 'not a man of good character'. No wonder he wants to be forgotten.

#BrianGoudie #DavidHanks #AlbaLaws
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