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  • Bank rolls over after security footage captures employee stealing money | Thaiger

    Bank rolls over after security footage captures employee stealing money

    Look up before you steal money in a bank. There’s probably going to be a security camera. A female bank employee has been caught red-handed stealing 10,000 baht of an elderly customer’s savings. CCTV at the bank shows the moment when the teller stole the elderly man’s savings. The daughter of the victim shared the video online for everyone to…

  • Police ramp up investigation into shots fired into Surachat’s car in Bangkok | Thaiger

    Police ramp up investigation into shots fired into Surachat’s car in Bangkok

    Investigators yesterday combed the scene of a shooting where seven shots (below) were fired into a vacant car belonging to former Immigration supremo Pol Lt-General Surachat Hakparn. Deputy Police Commissioner-General Pol General Virachai Songmetta visited the crime scene where the white Lexus was shot at by two suspects on Monday evening. According to The Nation, the location was a massage spa…

  • Finnish man arrested over Suvarnabhumi bomb threat | Thaiger

    Finnish man arrested over Suvarnabhumi bomb threat

    PHOTO: Skytrax Police report that an investigation has been opened into a bomb threat made to Suvarnabhumi International Airport. A man remains in detention over the matter. The threat was made on the evening of January 1, with a call implying that a bomb had been placed inside the airport The airport regularly receives bomb threats, and has security protocols in…

  • EssilorLuxottica announces a 6.3 billion baht fraud at a plant in Thailand | Thaiger

    EssilorLuxottica announces a 6.3 billion baht fraud at a plant in Thailand

    EssilorLuxottica has reported a 213 million US$ (6.3 billion baht) fraud in on of its plants in Thailand. EssilorLuxottica is a French-Italian multinational corporation based in Paris with subsidiaries and manufacturers around the world. Essilor Luxottica, a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of ophthalmic lenses, frames and sunglasses, has announced that its subsidiary Essilor International recently discovered fraudulent fund transfers in one…

  • Thai police dis criticism of their Koh Tao Murder investigation | Thaiger

    Thai police dis criticism of their Koh Tao Murder investigation

    PHOTO: Bangkok Post Thai police have publicly hit back at foreign media allegations that their forensics investigation into the highly-publicised 2014 murder case on Koh Tao did not meet international standards. The publicity about their allegedly botched investigation began in 2014 with the brutal murder of two British tourists, David Miller and Hannah Witheridge, on Koh Tao island off Surat…

  • Phuket police arrest eight drug dealers along with weapons and ammunition | Thaiger

    Phuket police arrest eight drug dealers along with weapons and ammunition

    On December 29, Phuket police arrested eight drug dealers and also seized a collection of drugs and weapons. In the first case, police arrested 29 year old Auttarit Chuachit and 28 year old Taweewan Suwannapo for possessing methamphetamine pills and Kratom leaves along with a gun and ammunition. They were arrested at the parking under a condominium on Thepkasattri Road…

  • Three Bangkok police fired after proof of extortion emerges | Thaiger

    Three Bangkok police fired after proof of extortion emerges

    UPDATED STORY Three policemen who worked out of the Thonglor Police Station, on the eastern edge of Bangkok city, have been suspended from their duties las Friday, pending a full enquiry. Thai Rath reported that the three had been relieved of their duties after allegedly receiving a bribe from a French businessman. The three policemen were identified as Maj. Phitsanupol…

  • Former Office of Buddhism chief sentenced to 20 years for corruption | Thaiger

    Former Office of Buddhism chief sentenced to 20 years for corruption

    PHOTO: National Office of Buddhism The former chief of the National Office of Buddhism has been handed a 20 year prison sentence for the mis-appropriation of temple funds. Thai PBS World reports that at the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases, Panom Sornsilp was found guilty of graft, along with the former director of the Office of Temple Renovation…

  • Samut Sakhon temple Abbot accused of sexual abuse of up to 19 temple novices | Thaiger

    Samut Sakhon temple Abbot accused of sexual abuse of up to 19 temple novices

    PHOTO: Police The acting abbot at a temple in Samut Sakhon has been arrested following allegations that he held captive and sexually abused a list of young novice monks. It’s been reported that the youngest was only 8 years old. Samut Sakhon is just to the east of Bangkok, facing the Gulf of Thailand. 40 year old Phra Khru Sangkharak Saksit…

  • DSI to charge former national park chief over “Billy” murder | Thaiger

    DSI to charge former national park chief over “Billy” murder

    PHOTO: Chaiwat Limlikhit-akson, former head of Kaeng Krachan National Park and Polajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen The Department of Special Investigations says they plan to file charges against a former national park chief and three park officials, in connection with the murder of Karen community rights activist Polajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen back in 2014. Shane Kanchanapat, director of the DSI’s Special Cases Division,…

  • Thai Ponzi scheme investigations wrap up | Thaiger

    Thai Ponzi scheme investigations wrap up

    PHOTO: Bangkok Jack 2019 has been the year of the ‘Ponzi’, unsustainable investment schemes which always end up in the late-comers receiving nothing and losing their investment. Thai media have reported on up to 10 high-profile Ponzi schemes that have crashed leaving Thais losing billions of baht. This is the latest news on three of the current investigations. Police have…

  • Fakes valued at 50 million baht found in raids in Saraburi | Thaiger

    Fakes valued at 50 million baht found in raids in Saraburi

    PHOTO: INN News That’s another 50 million baht worth of counterfeits off the streets. The Department of Special Investigation has seized counterfeit goods in a series of raids, with a street value of around 50 million baht and including some 158,000 items. In this case, the fakes were mostly brand name eyeglasses and clothing accessories. The DSI, Department of Intellectual Property…

  • Deceased captain from Wednesday’s Phuket boat crash had been the captain in another fatal boat crash | Thaiger

    Deceased captain from Wednesday’s Phuket boat crash had been the captain in another fatal boat crash

    … meanwhile an 18 year old boat boy remains missing. Whilst the search continued for a missing boat crew, 18 year old Kittipong ‘Boy’ Samunboot, following a speedboat crash on Wednesday late afternoon off Phuket’s east coast, it’s been revealed that the captain of the boat, Surat Mat-osod, was involved in an earlier fatal crash at sea in 2014 off…

  • 13 year old shoots classmate in Bangkok afters repeated taunts | Thaiger

    13 year old shoots classmate in Bangkok afters repeated taunts

    PHOTO: Siam Nonthaburi Foundation A teenage schoolboy has shot dead a 13 year old classmate who he says had repeatedly insulted and bullied him at a school in Muang district yesterday morning. The fatal shooting occurred inside a public school in Bang Kraso, Nonthaburi, a north west suburb of Bankok. The 13 year old shooter was apprehended and taken to the…

  • PM demands sentencing review after “Jack the Ripper” serial killer case | Thaiger

    PM demands sentencing review after “Jack the Ripper” serial killer case

    Thai PM Prayuth Chan-o-cha is ordering the justice minister to re-examine Thailand’s rules regarding sentence reductions and parole for violent criminals, after convicted serial killer Somkid Pumpuang, dubbed “Thailand’s Jack the Ripper,” was released from prison. He’s now the major suspect in another murder last Sunday, just seven months later after being released. “We have to be updated as the…

  • 14 year old arrested as gunman in Yala murder | Thaiger

    14 year old arrested as gunman in Yala murder

    PHOTO: Facebook/Krpoliceyala A 14 year old boy is accused of shooting a forestry official in the southern Thai province of Yala, according to police who arrested three suspects on Saturday, including the alleged mastermind. Authorities say the killing was planned by 34 year old Arseesa Kamae, an accountant who worked for the victim. She allegedly hired 33 year old Treenaphat…

  • Chonburi police arrest nine Chinese nationals for alleged amulet scam | Thaiger

    Chonburi police arrest nine Chinese nationals for alleged amulet scam

    Police have arrested nine Chinese nationals in an investigation into alleged amulet fraud in Chonburi, eastern Thailand. The Nation reports that the accused were running a shop at a Chonburi temple, where they sold fake amulets and Buddha images for prices that ranged from 1,000 baht to over 10,000 baht. They are accused of working with tour agents to target…

  • Foreigners and Thais conned out of 45 million baht in Pattaya property scam | Thaiger

    Foreigners and Thais conned out of 45 million baht in Pattaya property scam

    Police in Pattaya are hunting for a 49 year old real estate agent, Jidapha Sirikhong, who is alleged to have scammed both Thai and foreigner residents in a 45 million baht property scam. The Pattaya News reports that Jidapha is the owner of Som Property, with an office in an unnamed condominium building near Jomtien beach, where she took deposits for…

  • Mother cat and 4 kittens poisoned at Sai Kaew Beach, Phuket | Thaiger

    Mother cat and 4 kittens poisoned at Sai Kaew Beach, Phuket

    On December 11, a report was made following a post from the Facebook page ‘Rain Forest’ about 5 cats that were dumped and poisoned at Sai Kaew Beach, at the far north end of Mai Khao Beach in Phuket. The post shows pictures of a cat and her four kittens that had been poisoned with water and food, probably laced…

  • Teacher arrested for death of twins who stole his limes in Phattalung | Thaiger

    Teacher arrested for death of twins who stole his limes in Phattalung

    PHOTO: Assawin Pakkawan A 55 year old teacher has been arrested for the murder of twin brothers who, according to the police report, stole limes (lemons) from his farm in Phatthalung Province, southern Thailand. Police announced the arrest of Madyusup Chaisukkho, an English teacher at a public school in Pak Phayun district, for the deaths of 31 year old Manop Khongchan…

  • Leading anti-drug enforcer warns Thailand is becoming an emerging hub | Thaiger

    Leading anti-drug enforcer warns Thailand is becoming an emerging hub

    PHOTO: A small meth lab raided in the Shan State, one of many thousands of undetected facilities, hidden under the jungle canopy – Daily News Thailand is becoming a major conduit for drug cartels, according to Niyom Termsrisuk, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board. The growth of meth labs has exploded in the lawless Shan State of…

  • Over 50 Chinese youth arrested for running scam call centre from Samui hotel | Thaiger

    Over 50 Chinese youth arrested for running scam call centre from Samui hotel

    PHOTOS: CTN News 54 enterprising teenagers, most from China, have been arrested for running a call centre scam from a Koh Samui resort. The Chiang Rai Times reports that the arrests happened after police received a tip-off from a Chinese person who had worked for the call centre. Police say the Chinese teenagers were enticed to come and work for…

  • Police shoot and kill major meth trafficker in Nakhon Si Thammarat | Thaiger

    Police shoot and kill major meth trafficker in Nakhon Si Thammarat

    PHOTOS: Chiang Rai Times A Burmese drug trafficker has been shot dead in a gunfight with police in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The ambush was the result of a sting after police pretended to be buyers. Authorities raided a house rented by the suspect and found a tablet press, 11 kilograms of methamphetamine powder, 500,000 ‘speed’ pills…

  • Manhunt launched for alleged British drug kingpin | Thaiger

    Manhunt launched for alleged British drug kingpin

    PHOTO: Road on a home in the Nong Prue district last week – YouTube Police have launched a manhunt for the alleged kingpin of a Pattaya-based drug ring, just days after arresting six members, including three Australian Hell’s Angels members. Read that so try HERE. Tihomer Stojic was arrested at his girlfriend’s house in Buri Ram on November 28, while…

  • Two Aussies, Nigerian and Thai arrested with a kilogram of crystal meth – VIDEO | Thaiger

    Two Aussies, Nigerian and Thai arrested with a kilogram of crystal meth – VIDEO

    PHOTO: Pattaya ‘Drug Cartel’ Sting Operation Two Australians, a Nigerian and a Thai woman have been arrested in Pattaya with a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine valued at 350,000 baht. A team of police raided a home in the Nong Prue district and arrested 46 year old Jamie Robert Hansom and 58 year old Steven Brett Hovi, both Australian, 38 year old…

  • 10 months later, no action to catch Bea’s murderer – Phuket | Thaiger

    10 months later, no action to catch Bea’s murderer – Phuket

    PHOTO: Dimitrios ‘Dim’ Chairopoulo, wanted and believed to be living in Greece “We are all in desperate need of some answers so that justice can be served for the family.” It’s been over 10 months since the murder of a local Phuket beautician 43 year old Niramon ‘Bea’ Aewkaew. But her alleged Greek murderer Dimitrios ‘Dim’ Chairopoulos remains on the…

  • MD on the run – arrest warrant out for owner of company constructing petrol station in Phuket | Thaiger

    MD on the run – arrest warrant out for owner of company constructing petrol station in Phuket

    PHOTOS: Phuket Hotnews The owner of a company responsible for the collapsed petrol station under construction in Thalang, Phuket, is on the run. Seven people died and two others injured when the concrete pillars gave way to a concrete slab, crushing those below. Chuchart Plasuwan is the 44 year old MD of the The Blue Phuket Co Ltd. The incident…

  • Pattaya CCTVs weren’t working along busy soi to identify snatch and grab thieves | Thaiger

    Pattaya CCTVs weren’t working along busy soi to identify snatch and grab thieves

    PHOTO: Ruk Siam News Pattaya City Hall say that all their CCTV cameras along a busy Soi were working on the night a Russian family were robbed. Not a single camera in the area of Soi 14 to 16 Na Klua, Banglamung, was working when a Russian family were robbed last night. According to the police report, two men on a…

  • Chinese man stabbed to death in Bangkok office | Thaiger

    Chinese man stabbed to death in Bangkok office

    PHOTO: khaosod.co.th Police are investigating the death of a Chinese man found murdered at his visa service office on the first floor of a Bangkok apartment in Huai Khwang. Police found 54 year old Fang Yang Zen dead, face down at a blood drenched table in the office. There were more than ten cuts on his face and neck, and a…

  • Criminal Court upholds bail for former park chief Chaiwat | Thaiger

    Criminal Court upholds bail for former park chief Chaiwat

    PHOTO: Former chief of Kaeng Krachan national park, Chaiwat Limlikhit-aksorn (left), and Karen activist Polajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen (right) The Criminal Court has rejected a request to withdraw the bail of former Kaeng Krachan park chief Chaiwat Limlikhit-akson and three others. The four are suspected in the murder of Karen activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen about five years ago. In the request…