How Many Notorious Foreign Criminals Are Hiding Out in Thailand?

[SoCal1990]

It's hard not to wonder how many staunch, hardened criminals are laying low in Thailand, either still up to something illegal or just trying to disappear quietly into the woodwork. 

 

I’m not talking about the general nuisance types who mainly get into bar fights, a one-off smash up of personal property belonging to a business or an individual, or an isolated attack on the locals. I mean the ones who actually try to vanish. The quiet ones. Fugitive types with a dodgy past. The ones who never make eye contact, never speak to their neighbors, just keep their heads down, below the radar, and try to stay out of sight.

 

I came across a list of some of the ones that were caught in Thailand over the years and it kind of resonated with me. People like Viktor Bout (Arms Dealer), Charles Sobhraj (Serial Killer), Christopher Paul Neil (Pedophile), Joseph Hunter (“Rambo” – Contract Killer), Paul Francke (Conman), Shirai Shigeharu (Yakuza Boss), Peter Chadwick (Murderer), and the Hells Angels guys (Organized Crime).

 

Apparently all of them were either arrested or exposed while living in The LOS. As a result, it kind of makes you wonder how many more are still in Thailand, just blending in with the sex-tourists, the barflies, and the digital nomads.

[simon43]

I still have an overdue library book that I borrowed 55 years ago from Leicester Childrens' Library, and I'm still hiding from the British police.....

[SoCal1990]

2 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I still have an overdue library book that I borrowed 55 years ago from Leicester Childrens' Library, and I'm still hiding from the British police.....

Thank you for your confession. But fear not, your secret is safe with me. Nobody else will ever know.

[chickenslegs]

12 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I still have an overdue library book that I borrowed 55 years ago from Leicester Childrens' Library, and I'm still hiding from the British police.....

Good news ...

Books on loan to children and young people (0-15 years)

• Three week loan period
• No charge for overdue books.

Please make every effort to return books on time.

 

https://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-community/libraries-and-community-centres/libraries/join-a-library/charges/

[worgeordie]

1 hour ago, SoCal1990 said:

It's hard not to wonder how many staunch, hardened criminals are laying low in Thailand,

So how many do you think ? , do you include the Chinese ,Taiwanese ,Japanese

and other SE Asian criminals or just Farangs ,Pattaya seems to be a magnet

that draws them in .

 

regards Worgeordie

[khunJam]

Who knows how many, but I will definitely will squill if I come across any.

[StandardIssue]

Come on, are you surprised? The numbers are extraordinarily high. Perhaps coming down a little in the last 10 years.

Not only hardened criminals fleeing home country and attempting to "lay low" here, but new criminals setting up shop.

How many Indian scam call centers setup shop in Pattaya? So many people in USA get calls from these douche bags and try to get SCAM slow thinking people - victims make bank transfers to THAI banks!

Chinese and other nationalities setting up online Casinos. They get busted every so often.

If you choose to live here then buyer beware. You are going to be keeping company with a strange mix of expats, criminals, sexual deviants, narcissistic types that love pay for play sex etc.

[Patong2021]

3 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

It's hard not to wonder how many staunch, hardened criminals are laying low in Thailand, either still up to something illegal or just trying to disappear quietly into the woodwork. 

 

I’m not talking about the general nuisance types who mainly get into bar fights, a one-off smash up of personal property belonging to a business or an individual, or an isolated attack on the locals. I mean the ones who actually try to vanish. The quiet ones. Fugitive types with a dodgy past. The ones who never make eye contact, never speak to their neighbors, just keep their heads down, below the radar, and try to stay out of sight.

 

I came across a list of some of the ones that were caught in Thailand over the years and it kind of resonated with me. People like Viktor Bout (Arms Dealer), Charles Sobhraj (Serial Killer), Christopher Paul Neil (Pedophile), Joseph Hunter (“Rambo” – Contract Killer), Paul Francke (Conman), Shirai Shigeharu (Yakuza Boss), Peter Chadwick (Murderer), and the Hells Angels guys (Organized Crime).

 

Apparently all of them were either arrested or exposed while living in The LOS. As a result, it kind of makes you wonder how many more are still in Thailand, just blending in with the sex-tourists, the barflies, and the digital nomads.

 

A drop in the bucket. England is known for hosting Middle eastern rapists, France and Belgium for  hosting despots, Iran and lebanon for hosting terrorists, North Africa has its thriving slave trade families, Russia hosts US traitors, Canada  hosts many of the worlds corrupt dictator families and  war criminals from Rwanda and the Balkans, Australia  hosts pedophiles and right wing  fanatics,  and the USA   is home to  violent people of all manner. What collects in Thailand  is  inconsequential filth much like pond scum. 

[save the frogs]

15 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

narcissistic types that love pay for play sex etc.

 

Yes, people who enjoy p4p should be placed in the same category as serial killers because both exhibit narcissistic traits. 

 

To answer your question OP, quite a few. 

 

[Harrisfan]

7 hours ago, simon43 said:

I still have an overdue library book that I borrowed 55 years ago from Leicester Childrens' Library, and I'm still hiding from the British police.....

Think of all those kids that missed out

[fredwiggy]

This ones in prison, but you can read about some of his exploits in Thailand................https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-subway-guy-jared-fogle-100000949.html

[bkk6060]

Many.  Drug addicts, prison tat crooks, child Predators, and those who will say " I need to stay under the radar".  Just walk around Pattaya it is full of them possibly one of the top places in the world where they congregate.

[ChipButty]

Paedophile scoutmaster who fled to Thailand and spent decades on the run will die behind bars after being jailed for 46 years.

Richard Burrows, 81, 'ruined countless lives' as he systematically abused 24 boys across Cheshire and the Midlands between 1968 and 1995, a judge said today.

The predator became one of the UK's most wanted fugitives when he fled the country before his trial was due to take place in 1997.

[ChipButty]

I know it's not Thailand but Gary Glitter did some jail time in Cambodia, 

[simon43]

9 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Good news ...

Books on loan to children and young people (0-15 years)

• Three week loan period
• No charge for overdue books.

Please make every effort to return books on time.

 

https://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-community/libraries-and-community-centres/libraries/join-a-library/charges/

What??!! You mean that I've been hiding out for all these years for nothing?  I think I need to go back and commit a 'real' crime, like parking on a double yellow line.....

[Gandtee]

9 hours ago, simon43 said:

I still have an overdue library book that I borrowed 55 years ago from Leicester Childrens' Library, and I'm still hiding from the British police.....

'They seek him here. They seek him there. They seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That elusive library book stealer from Camberwell.

[ChaiyaTH]

The usual old guy talk again with the head stuck in the mud... Thailand is the least populair and worst place to hide, on the amount of tourism it's not that bad at all too.

[thesetat]

10 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

Thank you for your confession. But fear not, your secret is safe with me. Nobody else will ever know.

We know who you are and will be coming for you soon. Your country has been notified you are hiding out in Thailand already. Do not try to leave the country.. 

[thesetat]

5 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

The usual old guy talk again with the head stuck in the mud... Thailand is the least populair and worst place to hide, on the amount of tourism it's not that bad at all too.

Yeah, I do not see any difference from Thailand to other countries. 1 or 2 people a year caught running from the law in their own country found here. A few is not that bad. The problem in Thailand is that many active criminals working in Thailand now. 

Perhaps those with a past history have regretted their lives before and do not wish to talk about it to others hence their being secretive or discreet in what they do and who they talk to. It does not make them a bad person now. Yet, here the OP is trying to make it seem like just because someone had a criminal history that they are trying to hide out and still committing crimes. 

 

 

 

There are lots of countries where criminals go to hide out. Countries that do not have extradition laws. Thailand is not one of them.

 

[Gaccha]

The British police have officers permanently stationed in Pattaya and Bangkok. They are actively looking. 

[SAFETY FIRST]

2 minutes ago, Gaccha said:

The British police have officers permanently stationed in Pattaya and Bangkok. They are actively looking. 

Agree, I caught up with a few at the Windmill bar, Walking Street the other night, they were actively looking. 👀

 

[Gottfrid]

10 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

The ones who never make eye contact, never speak to their neighbors, just keep their heads down, below the radar, and try to stay out of sight.

 

10 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

As a result, it kind of makes you wonder how many more are still in Thailand, just blending in with the sex-tourists, the barflies, and the digital nomads.

You have very many thoughts, as I understand. You can at least make it a little more simple for yourself to figure out. How do you think the two quotes above from you initial post work together?

[newbee2022]

3 hours ago, Gaccha said:

The British police have officers permanently stationed in Pattaya and Bangkok. They are actively looking. 

Only Britain sent police officers to Pattaya and BKK?

There must be a reason for it

Not Germany, Switzerland, America? 

Strange.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

11 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

The numbers are extraordinarily high. Perhaps coming down a little in the last 10 years.

Really?  Where did you get the statistics for that...somewhere dark and musty, no doubt.

[Liverpool Lou]

11 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

How many Indian scam call centers setup shop in Pattaya? So many people in USA get calls from these douche bags and try to get SCAM slow thinking people - victims make bank transfers to THAI banks!

Well, how many Indian call centres are there in Pattaya?   I'd suggest that there are none; just because some of them have occasionally been found to use Thai bank nominee accounts doesn't mean that they are calling from Pattaya.

[Liverpool Lou]

11 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

If you choose to live here then buyer beware. You are going to be keeping company with a strange mix of expats, criminals, sexual deviants, narcissistic types that love pay for play sex etc.

Only if you choose to keep that sort of company by socialising in those circles.

[Cameroni]

Definitely not the Joker, Penguin or Riddler. They would call a lot of attention due to their get up, you would notice them. 

 

I think I saw Twoface in a bar in Pattaya though.

[Magictoad]

14 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

It's hard not to wonder how many staunch, hardened criminals are laying low in Thailand, either still up to something illegal or just trying to disappear quietly into the woodwork. 

 

I’m not talking about the general nuisance types who mainly get into bar fights, a one-off smash up of personal property belonging to a business or an individual, or an isolated attack on the locals. I mean the ones who actually try to vanish. The quiet ones. Fugitive types with a dodgy past. The ones who never make eye contact, never speak to their neighbors, just keep their heads down, below the radar, and try to stay out of sight.

 

I came across a list of some of the ones that were caught in Thailand over the years and it kind of resonated with me. People like Viktor Bout (Arms Dealer), Charles Sobhraj (Serial Killer), Christopher Paul Neil (Pedophile), Joseph Hunter (“Rambo” – Contract Killer), Paul Francke (Conman), Shirai Shigeharu (Yakuza Boss), Peter Chadwick (Murderer), and the Hells Angels guys (Organized Crime).

 

Apparently all of them were either arrested or exposed while living in The LOS. As a result, it kind of makes you wonder how many more are still in Thailand, just blending in with the sex-tourists, the barflies, and the digital nomads.

You.need help.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, Gaccha said:

The British police have officers permanently stationed in Pattaya and Bangkok. They are actively looking. 

As does the FBI and the AFP!  

[ThreeCardMonte]

Some think Thailand has all of these criminals here in hiding.

 

Others think this (not me):

”Alot of very high quality, high functioning expats living in Thailand and posting on this forum”

 

Are you confused?