Accused Norwegian pedophile arrested in Pattaya


PATTAYA:--A 70-year-old Norwegian fugitive on the run from pedophilia charges was captured hiding out in Pattaya.

Svein Eirik Michelsen was captured Jan. 27 after being spotted on Walking Street. He is wanted on international fugitive lists for molesting underage girls and possession of child pornography.

Immigration police said Michelsen was a frequent visitor to Thailand, entering the country on Aug. 4 on a 30-day visa waiver stamp in his passport. He applied for a retirement visa at Chonburi Immigration and was approved Aug. 22.

He was then given permission to stay until November this year before immigration officers found out he was on an international alert list.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-02-06

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

I was just thinking exactly the same thing.

I’m surprised that as soon as he became a fugitive, details weren’t provided to Interpol. I mean in Thailand you are dealing with immigration police. They should have nabbed him when he entered the country on August 4.

Edited February 6, 201511 yr by Asiantravel

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

"Immigration police said Michelsen was a frequent visitor to Thailand, entering the country on Aug. 4 on a 30-day visa waiver stamp in his passport."

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

He didn't enter on any sort of visa. He entered using a visa exempt entry as was made clear in the article.

If one applies for a non-imm O-A visa, you do need to supply a police report. Entering on a non-imm O or converting from a visa exempt entry or tourist visa entry to a non-imm O for the purpose of retiring does not have that requirement.

More importantly, if someone is sought for a major crime back in his home country, shouldn't the police in that country lift his passport or shouldn't immigrations in that country be able to identify him when he attempts to leave?

The competence of the police and immigrations officials in the country where the crime was committed and where the accused has been identified ought to be the first place to point the finger of blame. Thai police seem to have to deal with so many foreigners who have slipped through the fingers of the authorities back in Farang Land (or who paid some tea money to the corrupt farang police) you have to really wonder whether those farabf officials are totally clueless.

Edited February 6, 201511 yr by Suradit69

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Than an internationally wanted fugitive - child molester? Yikes - you might be as dangerous as him....I have 2 girls....glad they are taking out the (below) trash....and it's alot kinder than what would have happened to him if I caught him with my girls....

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Amen to financial advisers. Why would someone hand over hard earned money to relative strangers (Thai word 'farang') Answer=greed and stupidity.

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

They should do it for anyone coming in, period!

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Sir

You make some strange posts, but this one is by far the worst.How you can put a scam artist above a nonce is beyond me

The only good thing would be death penalty, but a slow one SCUM BAG!!!

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Sir

You make some strange posts, but this one is by far the worst.How you can put a scam artist above a nonce is beyond me

Fink the point was.............Scum in LOS is Scum............From what ever deviation.......

Feed him to the sharks too !!!

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

You make some strange posts, but this one is by far the worst.How you can put a scam artist above a nonce is beyond me

I dont put either above the other. What I said was that personally I am more bothered by people who are doing illegal things here than people who may have done illegal things elsewhere, especially as to my mind some countries have some very odd ideas about what is and isn't illegal, and the relative importance of various types of crime.

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

If I remember correctly, when I applied for my first retirement Visa, a police report from my home country was required. Visa renewals did not require it.

Good job BIB.

Send him back

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

I was just thinking exactly the same thing.

I’m surprised that as soon as he became a fugitive, details weren’t provided to Interpol. I mean in Thailand you are dealing with immigration police. They should have nabbed him when he entered the country on August 4.

Already got em for OA'S

Good job by the immigration police, even if it took some time.

This scum bag should not be entitled to carry a Norwegian passport.

Should Thailand start asking for police CBR checks to accompany initial retirement visa applications? Wouldn't you want to know who you are allowing to live long term in your country?

If I remember correctly, when I applied for my first retirement Visa, a police report from my home country was required. Visa renewals did not require it.

Bizarrely you have to get a police report to get a retirement visa outside of Thailand but not a retirement extension within Thailand.

As I mentioned, if anyone actually started checking the bona fides of all people with long visas and extensions the departure lounges would be full.

I may be missing something but nowhere does it say he was wanted as a fugitive when he entered the country. Possibly the warrant was issued once he was in Thailand.

Not that I am in any way defending him.

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Nothing wrong with estate agents,my wife is one,and honest

If Thai prisoners are anything like US prisoners, with hatred of those with "short eyes", he might wish he were tossed to the sharks instead.

First the immeasurable pain he inflicted upon his defenseless and innocent victims comes to mind, who will have to bear and cope with these traumatic experiences the rest of their lives.

Secondly it is almost incomprehensible that a person derives such pleasure out of hurting and abusing young victims in order to satisfy his pathological needs.

And him being 70 years of age it runs shivers down my spine to even imagine how many lives he ruined before they even had a chance to start to blossom....

Nothing wrong with estate agents,my wife is one,and honest

Nothing wrong with some estate agents, I'm sure.

I was talking about the criminals/losers from other countries who become all sorts of "businessmen" here.

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Just for a while, and if they get better at preventing them coming in, it would be a temporary inconvenience with a beneficial end!

It may be a little quieter on some of the more notorious streets, but that would be a good thing.

The boiler rooms and estate agents and pseudo lawyers and financial advisers could be then addressed!

if he was on an international wanted list ... do the thai aiports when you are at immigration, not have a passport reader that could do a quick check if one is on "the list" ?

if he was on an international wanted list ... do the thai aiports when you are at immigration, not have a passport reader that could do a quick check if one is on "the list" ?

Like in the club's where the bouncer says"your on the list your not coming in"slight misquote

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Interestingly, at least in the country, where I am coming from, the Thai Embassy is asking applicants for a NON-IMMIGRANT-O VISA A, to supply a Criminal Record Certificate (1 original, 2 copies) ....

If Thailand threw out all foreigners who had a criminal record somewhere the departures lounge at BKK would be full to bursting.

Personally I'm more bothered about the numerous scam artists allowed to live here running boiler-shops or becoming "financial advisers" and estate agents.

Than an internationally wanted fugitive - child molester? Yikes - you might be as dangerous as him....I have 2 girls....glad they are taking out the (below) trash....and it's alot kinder than what would have happened to him if I caught him with my girls....

stealing a child's innocence and screwing their brain for life is more horrendous a crime than a corrupt scammer.

What a nice place Pattaya is , not to say that the rest of LOS is becoming more infested with scum every year in fact not just LOS but the world seems to be in a state at the moment of Madness.

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