Media focus on Dane in Thai prison

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Media focus on Dane in Thai prison

BANGKOK: -- Peter Jensen, a 49 year old Danish man currently in prison in Phuket, was interviewed in the Danish daily newspaper Nordjyske.dk on Sunday 6 September 2015. The interview was made by using the mobile phone of his Thai girlfriend who visited him in the hospital where he was recovering after sustaining a blow to his head in prison. The story was reflected in the Danish tabloid EkstraBladet.

Nordjyske.dk had also interviewed legal adviser Claus Juul of Amnesty International who claims the Danish embassy in Bangkok is not doing what he believes they should do to get the Dane transferred back to Denmark. According to Claus Juul this should be easy.

What makes it difficult to transfer him to Denmark is, that among the complications in the case is a two year sentence for fraud that he according to sources has been sentenced by the Thai court. The case allegedly involved four or five cases of fraud committed in Thailand and raised by the Thai public prosecutor against him.

On LinkedIn, Peter Jensen’s profil stil shows him as CEO of SPCE Co., Ltd., the company where he was selling pre-cast concrete elements for projects. The company used to have a website named www.pryter.com which has been taken down.



When his Thai prison sentence is served he will automatically be expelled to Denmark where the Danish police is waiting for him with an arrest warrant – also for fraud, this time for VAT and tax fraud. The arrest warrant was posted on Interpol’s website and among the reasons the Thai police arrested him in November last year.

Source: http://scandasia.com/media-focus-on-dane-in-thai-prison/

-- ScandAsia 2015-09-08

[Hawk]

So?

[Loaded]

Do they have concrete evidence he committed fraud?

[speedtripler]

I guess the Danish police will have to wait 2 years until his Thai sentence is served

If he's committed these offences in thailand probably not much chance of being deported or allowed to serve the remainder in a nice euro style prison

Quite lucky to have only got 2 years for a string of frauds when some people get 5 years for mere possession of a yaba tablet etc

[dageurreotype]

Good. One less farang scamster scum off Phuket, several thousand more to go

[stephenterry]

No sympathy.

[SOTIRIOS]

...does anyone really know anything about the case....

...most corporations have 1 foreigner...the rest Thai....

...easy to see whom the odds are in favor of....and against.....if 'sh*t happens'......

[Doc46]

Good. One less farang scamster scum off Phuket, several thousand more to go

Yea and give him an extra 5 years as a bonus!!!!

[speedtripler]

...does anyone really know anything about the case....

...most corporations have 1 foreigner...the rest Thai....

...easy to see whom the odds are in favor of....and against.....if 'sh*t happens'......

Are the Danish police and courts wrongly accusing him of fraudulent behaviour too?

It would be a bit of a coincidence if a wanted fraud artist is wrongly accused and subsequently convicted of.. Multiple Frauds... In Thailand after leaving Denmark where incidentally the Danish police want him for fraud too...

I think we have to consider the possibility maybe the Thai police were right about something... Just this one time

[Srikcir]

He was arrested in November 2014 for tax evasion under an international Interpol arrest warrant and visa overstay by Thai Immigration.

He was subsequently sentenced for two years for fraud in Thailand. But there appears no information on the specifics of the charge. I suspect it too may have also been tax evasion such as income tax and VAT.

Without the Interpol arrest warrant he probably would have continued to evade Thai authority's attention.