Swedish Taxman Catches Fugitive In Pattaya

[george]

Swedish taxman catches fugitive in Pattaya

PATTAYA: -- Local immigration police caught up with a Swedish national in Pattaya after receiving an arrest warrant from the Swedish embassy. Claes-Hakan Bengtsson, 54, is accused of tax crimes in his home country, the total amount he allegedly kept back amounting to over 12 million Swedish kroner (64 million baht). Bengtsson then fled to Pattaya.

Immigration officers raided Bengtsson’s apartment, and Benny Carlson, Nordic liaison officer in Bangkok, accompanied police during the arrest. Bengtsson was taken to Soi 9 for further questioning.

When presented with a Swedish court order for his arrest, Bengtsson confessed to his crime. He said that he came to Pattaya even though he knew he would eventually be caught. He went on to say that he evaded paying the taxes from a company he opened in Sweden, although he did not reveal which company it was.

Following questioning, Benny Carlson took Bengtsson’s passport and cut it into pieces as his right to travel was cancelled by the Swedish government. He will now be deported back to Sweden to face the charges.

--Pattaya Mail 2005-06-11

[Kerryd]

Hehehehe, 2 down, 24,998 to go ! (soon all of Pattya will be mine. MINE I tells ya !)

[Pattaya_Fox]

The world is becoming a smaller place as the advancement in electronics adheres to no boundary.

As I recently returned to Manchester UK all passports including British were swiped at the passport control upon entering the airport.

At one time your passport would only be given a cursory glance by the passport control officer when re-entering the UK, but not so to-day.

So the tracking of criminals if using their own passport is quite easy.

[Kerryd]

The world is becoming a smaller place as the advancement in electronics adheres to no boundary.

As I recently returned to Manchester UK all passports including British  were swiped at the passport control upon entering the airport.

At one time your passport would only be given a cursory glance by the passport control officer when re-entering the UK, but not so to-day.

So the tracking of criminals if using their own passport is quite easy.

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Even the cruddy little "international" airport in Kabul is using passport scanners now. At one airport near Dubai (Sharjah), they are using bio-metric eye (retinal) scanners as well (have to change contact lenses every time I go through there to confuse them).