Liverpool Lou

Obviously, in that specific circumstance they would accept another payment method.

You'll need to back up that with something credible.

Why should the embassy get involved in a traffic accident - do they usually?

Gawd... Why don't you organise it, what's it got to do with AN?

"...a friend of mine who drove like a lunatic slammed straight in to the side of the van". Maybe because your friend was "driving like a lunatic"

You were fined B50,000? What traffic offence carries the penalty of a B50k fine? This should be interesting.

"...the cops said to me, "if i not there, then accident not happen". Cobblers.

No one was "murdered".

Absolutely.

Exactly.

Hear, hear!

"...he had failed to board return flight as planned. That would worry any family". No, his being an adult, missing a flight would not necessarily "worry any family"! "Also there had been some unspecified "odd" communications from him..." So that would be meaningless as they were unspecified. "He has since been found and is reported as receiving consular assistance from his Embassy. So can infer that indeed something untoward (but not lethal) had happened". Well you inferred that; the embassy always makes that word-for-word comment if asked, it does not imply anything untoward happened other than the reported missing his plane. If anything untoward had happened it is likely that the family would have been asked to comment further by the UK press that they brought in at the start...I wonder why that hasn't happened?

The OP or your story?

Brilliant! Throwing in that same old cliché , yet again, it never gets old or less profound.

You don't think that there's chance that the Russian spoke English?

"Where can I find a Fax machine?" Why not try using the internet to find one, there's many listed.

Who put you in charge here?

They work find foreigners who work online on a laptop, the biggest danger for national security. Because those foreigners are in Thailand! The Iranian thief isn't and isn't a danger to national security, either.

3. Owns a successful, legal business, does not deal drugs and B450k is not a lot.

From her successful business apparently.

Indeed, so much B.S. posted here. She seems to be involved in a successful business but we couldn't have that here, could we?

They can also work for those already in the country if the whereabouts are known.

They could always consider extradition if they know to where he travelled. interpol Red Notice etc, lots they can do. Extradition depends on the country that he's in wanting to co-operate with the Thai police, the RTP cannot demand it. There is a Red Notice but that doesn't do anything except advise member police forces, so there is actually not much they can do. Oops, sorry, wrong bloke, there isn't a Notice for this Iranian but it wouldn't help them anyway unless his country co-operates with the RTP and for extradition the RTP need to tell the police of the country he's in exactly where he's located, so, still not much they can do.

He left Thailand the next day, how could they?

More evidently, the RTP cannot do anything about an Iranian thief who immediately left the country after the theft and didn't return.