South African arrested for falsifying police report in failed insurance fraud claim

PHUKET: Tourist Police, in cooperation with Phuket City Police have arrested a 33-year-old South African national after he confessed to filing a false police report that personal items had been stolen from his Phuket Town hotel room today (June 6).

At around 12.55pm today (June 6) the suspect, named as Mr Laurie Viljoen Botha, filed a police report at Phuket City Municiaplity Police Station, alleging that various personal items had been robbed from his room at the Sino Imperial Hotel on Phuket Rd in Phuket City's Talad Yai sub district.

However, police became suspicious after they studied the hotel's CCTV footage which showed the suspect leaving the hotel with a bag (see picture).

Police then invited the suspect back to the police station for further questioning, a session which finally concluded with the suspect signing a three-page confession that he had lied about the robbery in order to file an insurance claim in his home country.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/south-african-arrested-for-falsifying-police-report-in-failed-insurance-fraud-claim-52650.php

-- Phuket News 2015-06-06

Why is no one pointing at HIM?

Tourists like that that give us all a bad name.

Why is no one pointing at HIM?

Agreed.................... What's going on, Thailand is falling apart! I need pointing in the morning with my coffee.

Tourists like that that give us all a bad name.

+ cause our insurance premiums to increase

Six police including a farang for this photo opportunity but I suppose the tourist police don't have quite so may chances to get their faces in the press.

Daft and ill thought out plan, i wonder how long he'll be doing bird for this one.

Who is that westerner with a big badge patch on his shirt? Is he from the police?

Daft and ill thought out plan, i wonder how long he'll be doing bird for this one.

No time in Thailand.

He'll get a fine and get extradited, end of story.

I really am surprised by this story.

All the countless times I had guests been robbed or staff stealing, police did absolutely nothing but take a report, charge 100 baht for photo copy and nothing else.

I had offered donations to go arrest thieves and still nothing and yet here not only police examines cctv but actually gets a confession

Daft and ill thought out plan, i wonder how long he'll be doing bird for this one.

No time in Thailand.

He'll get a fine and get extradited, end of story.

Deported.

Phuket:- A 33-year-old South African man was arrested Saturday for having filed false complain with police that he had been robbed of his valuables. He later admitted he hoped to use the complaint form to claim for insurance compensation in his country.

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Why is no one pointing at HIM?

Their not quite sure which one it is................

Who is that westerner with a big badge patch on his shirt? Is he from the police?

Negative guys, thats Igor and he's a good bloke, helps out the police with a lot of the Eastern European matters.As far as the South African guy, what a dumba**.

Why is no one pointing at HIM?

Agreed.................... What's going on, Thailand is falling apart! I need pointing in the morning with my coffee.

You boys are new to the subtleties of criminal pointing traditions.

Victims and criminals do the pointing. The thief-takers stand around sternly, in emotionless condemnation.

Therefore as both victim and perpetrator, he should be pointing at himself, with an (admittedly difficult to pull off) mixed expression of abject guilt and triumphant Schadenfreude.

Simple logic fellow TV sherlocks

Who is that westerner with a big badge patch on his shirt? Is he from the police?

Tourist volunteer cop.

Tourists like that that give us all a bad name.

We already have "a bad name."

Guess he's not the only one to make sure that we pay more for a travel insurance.

But an American guy topped him in Bangkok a few years ago. Same story, claimed that a lot of expensive items were missing.

Cops then made a search of his hotel room, found all items that "were stolen", plus a big bag of Ganja.

Tourists like that that give us all a bad name.

We already have "a bad name."

Farang?

he should have known it would be checked you cant go around falsifying police reports what a wally .

Tourists like that that give us all a bad name.

Speak for yourself. He doesn't give me a bad name.

insurance fraud, so what, its a big company.

its the men in power wearing suits and ties who are the real criminals.

Leaving the hotel with a bag? What's so suspicious about that?

Who is that westerner with a big badge patch on his shirt? Is he from the police?

What, the one with the noms , maybe hes' a fraud too.

6 cops around him and making the headlines, i wonder how much loot was involved hardly the bloody brinks matt job was it ?

I really am surprised by this story.

All the countless times I had guests been robbed or staff stealing, police did absolutely nothing but take a report, charge 100 baht for photo copy and nothing else.

I had offered donations to go arrest thieves and still nothing and yet here not only police examines cctv but actually gets a confession

You've failed to make the all-important distinction between crimes committed by locals and crimes by foreigners. It's a "closed shop" and foreigners are definitely not welcome to participate (except in a "supporting role" as victim). It's all in the LOS fine print somewhere.

insurance fraud, so what, its a big company.

its the men in power wearing suits and ties who are the real criminals.

Typical poor and uneducated men mentality

Leaving the hotel with a bag? What's so suspicious about that?

Leaving with a bag when you do not check out and probably, not coming back with that bag

is suspicious.

Where did you leave the bag and what had been, or is inside?

I really am surprised by this story.

All the countless times I had guests been robbed or staff stealing, police did absolutely nothing but take a report, charge 100 baht for photo copy and nothing else.

I had offered donations to go arrest thieves and still nothing and yet here not only police examines cctv but actually gets a confession

You've failed to make the all-important distinction between crimes committed by locals and crimes by foreigners. It's a "closed shop" and foreigners are definitely not welcome to participate (except in a "supporting role" as victim). It's all in the LOS fine print somewhere.

Fair point

However initially he was presumably robbed by a local and police actually did their job.

Unless he was really robbed and confession is a result of few hour "discussion"

Fashion Police would lock this guy up for life.