Kanokrat Nimsamooth Booth said she was looking out for a lawyer to help pursue a case at the European Court of Human Rights and perhaps for other Thai women with problems in mixed marriages and stumbled across an advertisement for Drew Walter Noyes.
She only found out he was fake by reading the website of British journalist Andrew Drummond but by then she had sent him personal documents. In fact Drummond himself supported her with her problems.
When she found out that the British journalist was embroiled in legal cases with Noyes and people associated with him she went to his aid. Drummond, she said, was doing investigative journalist work and as a journalist herself she could see what was up against.
“He told the stories very straight, not perhaps in the Thai style, but they were accurate and in the public interest. As a result of helping Andrew I have been under personal attack on the internet as all sorts of websites are put up the net to try and discredit me," she said at the conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
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“These men have tried to drain Andrew Drummond of cash because he has had to pay to defend himself from allegations which have no substance. He has won all his cases except one and that is being appealed.
“On a website in English registered in London and hosted in the United States he accused a man of being a pimp, who indeed was a pimp. That was a legal term to use in the context because actually because the brothel in question was legal. But in Thailand this expression was translated as being a ‘maeng da’ (horseshoe crab) and being a maeng da is against the law.”
She added that the problem with Thailand at the moment was that the authorities did not really know about many of the foreigners who were settling in Thailand. Many had dubious pasts and came to Thailand set up illegally structured companies to hold land and to carry on illegal businesses.
They included #BrianGoudie, also known as Goudie, who was jailed in Australia for fraud, who had turned up in Thailand pretending to be a British barrister and former Captain in the Royal Marines;
#DavidHanks, 66, a former brothel owner from Melbourne, who claimed he ran a furniture restoration business in Pattaya, which was a paper company only; and #DrewNoyes, 59, an American who also claimed to be a lawyer but whom had been exposed by the media in the United States as a man of myriad lies, who had been pursued by lawyers there trying to recoup cash from share and property deals, and representing women who had allegedly been assaulted and sexually assaulted.
Drummond showed a graph showing how British criminals were indirectly linked together in businesses in Thailand.
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“It would be a very interesting exercise for police to carry out such exercises elsewhere, he said, but they had other things on their minds.”
He said he had come across Noyes when he was negotiating deals for American porn filmmakers and selling homes built for less well off Thais by the National Housing Authority at grossly inflated prices to his foreign 'friends'.
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It was, he said, very difficult to carry out his job as a correspondent while at the same time raising a family and attending numerous court cases, but of course the aim of his attackers was to drain him of cash.
He was thankful that he had strong support in the foreign community in Thailand and overseas who had helped him because they recognised he was helping others by his exposure stories.
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Did not realise I had a fan club. Had one you Thai chap turn up who wanted me to autograph my business card saying he had been a long time fan of this site. Unfortunately of all days I had forgotten to re-stock my business cards so signed a 'programme' so to speak and gave him my contact details. If he emails I guess I should give him something. Quite a few foreigners turned up whom I guess may have been disappointed that most of it was in Thai - and quite a few Thais I suspect thought my English went on long enough. Goold old Benny Moafi - the scourge of the Thai courts turned up and offered me a free service in counter-suing.
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My apologies to readers who have had triple does of the Stooges this week. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible perhaps beginning with the story of the Channel 7 crew from Australia who were attacked this week down on Koh Samui.