Aussies Deported Over False Phuket Robbery Claim

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Aussies deported over false Phuket robbery claim

Australian couple Abdul Karim El Rajab (left) and and Zeidan Nouha have

been deported, but have not been placed on the Immigration blacklist.

PHUKET: -- The two Australian tourists on holiday in Phuket who were charged with filing a false robbery report last weekend have been deported, the Phuket Immigration Office has confirmed.

The Australian couple, Abdul Karim El Rajab, 31, and Zeidan Nouha, 30, were arrested for filing a bogus report of being robbed in Patong last Sunday.

Police believe the couple filed the report with the aim of filing a fake insurance claim.

Officers became suspicious of the couple after an investigation into the alleged robbery proved fruitless.

The couple were arrested after officers searched the couple’s hotel room and found all of the items reported stolen, including iPhone 4s, their passports and wallets.

“They were fined 600 baht each for intentionally providing a police officer with false information and they have been deported back to Australia,” the officer said.

“However, they have not been placed on the Immigration blacklist, which means they have not been barred from entering Thailand. They may choose to return at a later date,” the officer added.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2011/article11373.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-11-05

[gary09]

They got off lightly,

[zorro1]

[quaxo]

600 baht and deportation? Couple of lucky twits.

[wombat]

Abdul Karim El Rajab, Zeidan Nouha

very Australian names

[philisok]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

[UdeBoCM]

Abdul Karim El Rajab, Zeidan Nouha

very Australian names

They wear national costume at least, that 's a proof they are Australian..

[govoner]

hope someone lets their insurance company know that they were intending to defraud them

[alexth]

Get used to it, people, I feel the same when gypsies are being called Romanians. Some idiots go as far as asking me how come I'm Romanian and white!?

[Semper]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

Who are, except the Aborigines?

[NorthernNomad]

And why not bar these two scum twits from returning to Thailand?

PS - nice hair bleach job on the wifey - ugh.

[keymaker]

Abdul Karim El Rajab, Zeidan Nouha

very Australian names

They wear national costume at least, that 's a proof they are Australian..

They might arrived in Australia as political refugees and got more rights than born Australians also free citizenship.

They're the shame of Australia, and PITY Thailand only 600 Baht fees??

[USNret]

Scum

[liddall]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

so true australians are aborigine right ?

[sirchai]

That is why Australians and other nationalities will get a bad name because of all the import that they let into their country.

Only punished by 600 bath is cheap much too cheap

Thais wouldn't understand by their names that they were not originally from Australia. C'mon, they are holding Aussie passports...

I remember an American guy who called the cops to a hotel in Bangkok, where he 'got robbed.'

The cops not just found the 'items' he'd claimed to be 'stolen', they also found some weed. Two things are endless, human stupidity and the universe.

But I'm not sure about the universe...(Albert Einstein).................

[NowImEasy]

That guy definitely is not an Aussie. He hasn't a shaved head and tattoos!

[drdoom6996]

What the hell. SCAM THE SCAMMERS. I wouldn't live in Phuket on a bet, and I live in Pattaya.

[sandgroper2]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

Who are, except the Aborigines?

If you knew a little about history, you would know that Australia wasnt called Australia until the first white man got there, . So to state that only aboriginies are original Aussies is rubbish and not factual.

[MrRed]

Surely the Australian insurance company can take them to court in Australia.

[dopenhagen]

I don't understan why they ot off so lightly, not only are these underlings giving bad names to Australians, but also in the process to people carrying Arab names, immigrants and refugees to Australia AS WELL as Phuket itself as adding to the crime stats regardless, not to mention adding to the list of bad headlines relating to Phuket and eventually Thailand.

In other countries they would have been fined much more severely, I wonder how much of their cash stash ended up in the pockets of the investigating officers of the Police...

[dopenhagen]

Unfortunately it would be nearly impossible to convict them for attempt to fraud, they can at any point claim confusion and lack of equality to police and that they accepted their fine off pure fear of more lack of justice, I dont think the Australian justice system holds massive respect for the Thai justice system...

[fergus1969]

Lebanese Aussies are just as much Aussies as the convicts who were deported there between 1788 and 1868

Abdul Karim El Rajab, Zeidan Nouha

very Australian names

[rotary]

They should have been given 1 year in Bkk Hilton then deported with life time bar entry from Thailand. Real scum bags looking to free load.

[liddall]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

Who are, except the Aborigines?

If you knew a little about history, you would know that Australia wasnt called Australia until the first white man got there, . So to state that only aboriginies are original Aussies is rubbish and not factual.

maybe the Australian government knows the answer: http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/04fifty.htm

Early migration waves

The date of the first human occupation in Australia remains unknown but evidence exists that humans have been on the continent for at least 40 000 years. Consequently, the Aboriginal people are regarded as the Indigenous people of Australia.......

.....The migration program has reflected economic or social conditions in Australia and elsewhere. For example:

During the 1840s a large number of Irish immigrants came to Australia to escape famine in their homeland.

From the 1860s to the late nineteenth century, labourers from Melanesia were recruited to work on Queensland plantations.

From the 1860s to the 1920s concerns about population imbalance resulted in deliberate efforts to attract women to Australia.

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Afghani, Pakistani and Turkish camel handlers played an important part in opening up the continent's interior, facilitating the construction of telegraph and railway lines...

you can change a countries name but not its origins

[MrRed]

Unfortunately it would be nearly impossible to convict them for attempt to fraud, they can at any point claim confusion and lack of equality to police and that they accepted their fine off pure fear of more lack of justice, I dont think the Australian justice system holds massive respect for the Thai justice system...

Understandable but the evidence of them filing an insurance claim and then the officers finding everything in there room is pretty water tight wouldn't you say?

The justice system has nothing to do with it really here in Thailand,they committed a fraudulent claim which was recognized by the Thai police quite easily.I am sure they will be brought to book in Aus.

[KhunVee]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

They are white.

And the original Australian people are black.

[MrRed]

Why does the thread have to turn into a nationality flame,they are Aussies and fraudsters end of story,they should be slayed!

[F4UCorsair]

Fraud against travel insurance companies is very high, and that's reflected in the premiums.

During my flying career, flight attendants were notorious for scamming their travel insurance company to 'subsidize their holidays', and they bragged about it.

[Hawkman]

It's a pity they say Australian citizens, definitely not originally from Australia.

Who are, except the Aborigines?

If you knew a little about history, you would know that Australia wasnt called Australia until the first white man got there, . So to state that only aboriginies are original Aussies is rubbish and not factual.

Come on, you know what he means. Just because some men decided to change the name of the country doesn't mean the people who lived there before were not there originally.

[KhunVee]

maybe the Australian government knows the answer: http://www.immi.gov....ets/04fifty.htm

Early migration waves

The date of the first human occupation in Australia remains unknown but evidence exists that humans have been on the continent for at least 40 000 years. Consequently, the Aboriginal people are regarded as the Indigenous people of Australia.......

.....The migration program has reflected economic or social conditions in Australia and elsewhere. For example:

During the 1840s a large number of Irish immigrants came to Australia to escape famine in their homeland.

From the 1860s to the late nineteenth century, labourers from Melanesia were recruited to work on Queensland plantations.

From the 1860s to the 1920s concerns about population imbalance resulted in deliberate efforts to attract women to Australia.

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Afghani, Pakistani and Turkish camel handlers played an important part in opening up the continent's interior, facilitating the construction of telegraph and railway lines...

you can change a countries name but not its origins