Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand

Immigration police made a statement about the arrest of a Spanish criminal fled to Thailand. He conned 5,000 people out of 500 Euros each.

BANGKOK – October 30, 2014 [Pattaya Daily News]; at 14.30 pm Pol.Lt.Gen.Sakda Chuenpakdee-acting commander of immigration- was accompanied with Pol.Maj.Gen.Warawut Thaweechaikarn-superintendent inspector of immigration-, Pol.Col.Chengron Rimdee-superintendent of immigration office- and Pol.Lt.Col.Suppachai Poldet-deputy superintendent- who together made a statement about the arrest of Mr.LuisBatlleVilaseca aged 54 from Spain with his fake Mexico passport.

The officers arrested him in Suvannabhumi airport on 29th of October.

Pol.Col.Chengron said that Thai police were notified by Spanish police officers to arrest Mr.LuisBatlle who traveled to Thailand without permission.

Therefore the police officers inspected Mr. Luis Manuel Batlle Costa who had a name like the suspect.

Read More: http://www.pattayadailynews.com/pattaya-news/spanish-con-man-caught-thailand/

-- Pattaya Daily News 2014-11-01

One less criminal on the streets!! Well done.

The cop on the right hand side could do with some regular foot patrols.....but no-where near a Dunkin Donuts!

Funny though, how they always seem to gravitate towards Pattaya or Phuket. Must be the entertainment factor?

Bienvenida senor Luis..

Funny though, how they always seem to gravitate towards Pattaya or Phuket. Must be the entertainment factor?

Bienvenida senor Luis..

Adios more like, he'll be on a flight back soon.

Shame they can't catch the 2 to 12 THAI conmen we are all continually reading about in the main headlines.

"Pol.Col.Chengron said that Thai police were notified by Spanish police officers to arrest Mr.LuisBatlle who traveled to Thailand without permission."

He should have been aware that he could not enter Thailand if he was going to conduct any business which would compete with Thai nationals who could perform the same tasks.

The one skill that Thailand does not need to import is that of conning other people. Plus, he would have looked utterly ridiculous in a tight dress, uttering "I rove you forever" to every strange man that walked past him.

No real sleuth work on the part of the Thai authorities, just answered the telephone and popped him when his flight landed. Doesn't matter - there was a tremendous opportunity for a photo op and a headline.

Must be a slow day at the BIB head office that police generals are photo opp with a petty criminal....

Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand

... 2 million Thai con men still on the lose.

yeah.... I am wondering how Thaksin made it out and has been flying around meeting his buddies in Hongkong, Laos, Cambodia....by the way these buddies are high official police men....Cannot catch this wanted man....

Perhaps he has had plastic surgery or the the police officers need new spectacles......

Anyway well done for catching a farang.... does cover up for all the others let through and out by the back door.

Presumably he was coming on an Ed visa intending to learn the trade

Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand

... 2 million Thai con men still on the lose.

2 million, ??? Is that all? You forgot about the bar girls add another Million on to that, then another Million for the lady boys, 4 Million, thats about right haha

Why so many police needed to make this statement. The first paragraph is just their names and titles.

I thought it would never end and it makes up for more than half the story.

No real sleuth work on the part of the Thai authorities, just answered the telephone and popped him when his flight landed.

Really. I mean, I don't know why they even bother, with all the keyboard sleuths hard at work here.

As a fellow journo friend of mine is fond of saying, if you think the RTP are a pack of incompetent fools, just commit a serious crime here and see how long it takes for them to come knocking. You might just be surprised.

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Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand

... 2 million Thai con men still on the lose.

yeah.... I am wondering how Thaksin made it out and has been flying around meeting his buddies in Hongkong, Laos, Cambodia....by the way these buddies are high official police men....Cannot catch this wanted man....

Perhaps he has had plastic surgery or the the police officers need new spectacles......

Anyway well done for catching a farang.... does cover up for all the others let through and out by the back door.

Hmmm... He made it out because he wasn't convicted ..... "cannot catch" because not their jurisdiction it's up to HK, Laos, etc police.... they won't either because, despite the democrat led government trumpeting an arrest warrant turned out Interpol never issued one. explaining that Thaksin’s case did not meet the requirements for it.

If you are going to make anti-Thaksin quips at every opportunity to make yourself look clever at least try to get informed.

Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand

... 2 million Thai con men still on the lose.

What did the 2 million Thai con men lose?

really necessary for the title 'farang con man caught in thailand' in the thaivisa newsletter?

i was on a bt bus in pattaya today when the local thief gang boarded,as they jostled and created confusion the ''picker'' sat next to me,as he lay his huge over size cloth bag over his lap(to conciel his hands) and the look out sat across from me to signal him,i waited, and as i felt his hand touch my backback i quickly removed the bag from his lap and grabed his hand which was almost in my back pack, insults flew, and they quickly buzzed and got off the bus ....beware of this type of crime...

really necessary for the title 'farang con man caught in thailand' in the thaivisa newsletter?

Click bait. 'farang' will get more page views than French, Spanish, German..... TV are experts at it, which is why we get all these 'crack down' and 'farang' titles even when the original article is worded differently.

One less criminal on the streets!! Well done.

He was in the airport

Must be a slow day at the BIB head office that police generals are photo opp with a petty criminal....

These criminals need to be exposed for what they are, I'm quite certain if you were one of the 5,000 people who he robbed you would not be so nonchalant about it unless you're so rich that 500 Euros is just peanuts to you and you can afford to lose or throw away money every day.

I was conned out of 2.5 million baht recently but they didn't catch the perpetrator ....

she remarried and remains still at large.....

Conman is a regular job in Thailand, why was he arrested?

No real sleuth work on the part of the Thai authorities, just answered the telephone and popped him when his flight landed.

Really. I mean, I don't know why they even bother, with all the keyboard sleuths hard at work here.

As a fellow journo friend of mine is fond of saying, if you think the RTP are a pack of incompetent fools, just commit a serious crime here and see how long it takes for them to come knocking. You might just be surprised.

Once again a very rare but true fact containing post.

Thank you.

recycler, on 01 Nov 2014 - 08:21, said:

Conman is a regular job in Thailand, why was he arrested?

No work permit!!!

Must be a slow day at the BIB head office that police generals are photo opp with a petty criminal....

They can't win with people like you can they - if guys like this go around ripping people off unchecked you'll whinge the police are doing nothing - when they catch them you whinge they've got nothing better to do !!

Agreed...TITV.

There is much to legitimately find fault with here in Thailand, but the criticism on this forum is often mindless.

The cop on the right hand side could do with some regular foot patrols.....but no-where near a Dunkin Donuts!

I've found that people who judge the appearance of others are often lacking in their own being. Prejudice, of whatever veil, is still ugly.

Another gold star for the Thai police against the International crims - They must be trying to defame the rest of the world in vengence for Koh Tao.

Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand

... 2 million Thai con men still on the lose.

Not that good a con man, he did not get no further than the airport, he should hook up with a few bar girls, they will give him some good lessons

Another gold star for the Thai police against the International crims - They must be trying to defame the rest of the world in vengence for Koh Tao.

they had a lot of help from spain