British Man Arrested at Airport for Allegedly Defrauding Wife and Forging Documents

[PomPolo]

Well this is a new one here - all I can say is good luck getting that 49% back in a company meeting - you can always learn lessons but can't fix stupid!
As a Brit not going to defend this Brit 555

[kiwikeith]

4 hours ago, dpeti73 said:

This happening when you buy something here for 100% price but you can own only 49% and the relationship going wrong

Big question is his partner probably put nothing into it, then maybe she had some land , more to come I hope.

[soalbundy]

3 hours ago, Baba Naba said:

If it was a replacement deed, then it was not forged, just duplicated and it was a legal document.  

Am I missing something?

Yes, he lied to the land office saying the original was lost.

[soalbundy]

6 minutes ago, PomPolo said:

Well this is a new one here - all I can say is good luck getting that 49% back in a company meeting - you can always learn lessons but can't fix stupid!
As a Brit not going to defend this Brit 555

Yes, a right Muppet, he succeeded with the fraud then came back.

[Lazybones]

4 hours ago, Baba Naba said:

If it was a replacement deed, then it was not forged, just duplicated and it was a legal document.  

Am I missing something?

Yes, he forged documents to obtain the replacement deed. 

[PeeJayEm]

Guilty until proven innocent apparently.

[BusyB]

2 hours ago, Ironmike said:

You'd need to be a complete moron to return here after doing that hope he rots in the Hilton. 

 

I was wondering about that. Maybe he's been set up?

 

[Samh]

3 hours ago, Bundooman said:

Yes. He was duplicating it fraudulently. That's illegal, yes?

I guess if Thais do it it called replacement of lost deeds.

[save the frogs]

4 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Our scumbags seem to love Pattaya.

Like moths to a flame

bashing pattaya every chance you get man

there's a lot of nice people in pattaya. scumbags are the minority. 

[norsurin]

4 hours ago, har0165 said:

1. Just enjoy the lifestyle here, don't do business here. As a foreigner, everything is set up to work against you.

2. Don't get married.

 

Speaking from experience.

Totally agree with u.I once build a house in surin..after i get divorced i just left.Now my in-laws live in the house.Not a big loss.. about 350.000 baht.Me and my exwife have 2 kids together and i visit the grandparents everytime im in Thailand.Only for a day.Past is past.I will never get married again..i enjoy my freedom.My exwife and our kids moved to my country 18 years ago.Kids get educated and have good jobs here.I meet my kids on a daily basis and sometimes i meet my ex.We talk together but never about our past.A friend of me build a house in khon-kaen.He paid it cash.About 800 K.The house and the land was in his wife name.He find out that she have borrowed 600 K in the local bank with the house as a security for the loan.Well..the marriage ended and he never went back.

[PingRoundTheWorld]

3 hours ago, Ironmike said:

You'd need to be a complete moron to return here after doing that hope he rots in the Hilton. 

Before you judge so harshly: who paid for the land? my guess would be he paid 100% or close to it, but when he figured out either she's stepping out on him or about to leave he decided to act. His only mistake was to return to Thailand afterwards. (ok his first mistake was getting married, and second mistake starting a company and buying land with the wife)

 

Legally speaking if he did forge documents then yes, it's fraud, but morally speaking if he was the one who financed the company 100% it is not.

[bkk6060]

Sounds like a scamming criminal.

[swerve]

Power to this guy.  Hope he gets away with it.  Thais forge signatures to steal from others regularly.

[SbuxPlease]

Seems like things went sour with the business relationship and he tried to get out in a sneaky way. Who knows, maybe he's playing nasty because she is too, or maybe he's just a fraudster. How could we ever know?

 

Perhaps look at who the initial investment came from. I've heard of cases where a foreigner who could prove to the court that all the funds are from him should be returned to him when the land sells. Courts aren't totally unreasonable in Thailand.

[Keeps]

5 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Our scumbags seem to love Pattaya.

Like moths to a flame

Who, Aussies? This is about a Brit, not one of yours.....

[Liverpool Lou]

9 hours ago, Baba Naba said:

If it was a replacement deed, then it was not forged, just duplicated and it was a legal document.  

Am I missing something?

I'd guess that what you're missing is that he may not have been authorised to sell on his sole signature and the documents were issued based on a false police report as the charges include providing false statements and instructing officials to record false information in official documents.

[Liverpool Lou]

9 hours ago, Toby1947 said:

Good on him, 👍 

Why?

[Liverpool Lou]

9 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

It gets worse than that. If married (to a Thai) and your spouse runs up huge credit card debts or bank loans (with or without your knowledge), the creditors can come after you to recover 100% of the debts if she won't/can't pay.

That's incorrect.  Loans taken out or debts incurred by spouses solely in their name and only benefitting that person do not become a liability of the other spouse.

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, Cabradelmar said:

Would be interesting to know who put up the initial 20m. Baht

Where was it reported that B20m was put up originally?   He sold the assets for B20m.

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, Samh said:

He seemed to be a bit young to have the odd £465,000 kicking around.

How old is the man whose face you cannot see reported to be?   Where was it reported that he had B20m originally?

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

Big question is his partner probably put nothing into it, then maybe she had some land , more to come I hope.

Bigger question is, how did you know that to probably be the case?

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, Samh said:

I guess if Thais do it it called replacement of lost deeds.

Not if they file a false police report indicating the the document has been lost.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, swerve said:

Thais forge signatures to steal from others regularly.

Do they?  Any examples of this regular activity?

[RT555]

$578,000....why come back.. 

[still kicking]

6 hours ago, save the frogs said:

bashing pattaya every chance you get man

there's a lot of nice people in pattaya. scumbags are the minority. 

Ablolutely all my friends live in Pattaya, everybody has a good job or is self-employed 

[Patong2021]

11 hours ago, Issanraider said:

Yes you clearly are.

Allegedly he forged her signature on documents to obtain a duplicate title deed when the original deed had not been lost.

He then allegedly forged her signature in order to sell the company in who’s name the title was registered.

 

 

Unfortunately, that information is not given in the story posted. It is understandable why many could be easily confused. The perils of AI I guess.  Thank you for providing the missing details.