Convicted Dutch money launderer and Thai wife have sentences drastically reduced

[wakeupplease]

Just look on it this way, many governments do not care what happens to low life like him, and they do not have to pay for his up keep as here he is lying in a T jail at T's expense. back home it would cost a fortune to keep him in jail so who cares not them, those who gave him sanctuary pay for it in the long run and (we)  have got rid of another con artist. Nice. That is why embassies do as they do, its cheaper. You Pay not us is there message, its called oneupmanship. Thanks by the way.

 

If its a local con apologizes to the man.

[TheLobster]

I'm not reading through all this crap. Was his money gained illegally? If not then the headline is wrong and should be changed.

[mrfaroukh]

I wonder what would be left of him after 20 years in Thai jails

[Wim1954]

15 hours ago, sweatalot said:

learning about this shameful case makes me feel very unsafe in Thailand. I am considering to leave.

Bye bye

[Get Real]

23 hours ago, marcher said:

But why the 103 year sentence if the maximum is only 20

Forgot the calculator at home that day. 

[thenewgoo]

5 hours ago, Get Real said:

But why the 103 year sentence if the maximum is only 20

Yes, I asked that earlier in the post. Nobody seems to know though. I guess the maximum penalty for offending 'high up persons' is 83 years. Plus 20 for the dirty laundry.

[thaiguzzi]

The Royal Dutch embassy in BKK should be all over this case like flies on shIt.

Don't let it rest. Harass the powers that be day in day out. Week in week out. Make diplomatic waves in Holland to the Thai embassy in Amsterdam/Hague. Let their ambassador feel some heat. Make it a diplomatic time bomb. Make it a diplomatic international embarassment.

The case stinks !!!

[ukrules]

3 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

The Royal Dutch embassy in BKK should be all over this case like flies on shIt.

Don't let it rest. Harass the powers that be day in day out. Week in week out. Make diplomatic waves in Holland to the Thai embassy in Amsterdam/Hague. Let their ambassador feel some heat. Make it a diplomatic time bomb. Make it a diplomatic international embarassment.

The case stinks !!!

Hahaha, they are all over it. How do you think he ended up being arrested in the first place ?

 

This whole farce was initiated by his own embassy.

 

[Dogmatix]

300 million baht hardly put him in a big league of drug dealers and money launderers.  If he sold businesses in Holland, he could easily have had that kind of money and much more legitimately and it is unlikely that 14 Dutch MPs would have made noise on his behalf, unless the evidence over there suggested strongly that was the case.

 

Admittedly it was foolish to flaunt wealth with multiple Porshes etc, making himself look like a criminal, but he must have really peed off someone with big connections in the current regime.  Meanwhile many genuine big shot drug dealers and money launderers with high level police and military connections are walking tall on the hi-so cocktail party circuit.

[Dogmatix]

12 hours ago, Get Real said:

Forgot the calculator at home that day. 

 

This is no doubt because the maximum sentence is for a single offence but Thai courts can and often do order the sentences for multiple occurrences of the same offence to run consecutively and the point where one offence finishes and the next one begins is often very difficult for the layman to see .  

 

That's why there is a Thai lawyer now facing 150 years in prison for 20 alleged offences of LM which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.   

[Guest Jerry787]

Coffee Shops and Cannabis trade is legal in Holland.

[chilli42]

On 6/21/2017 at 9:31 AM, Adeeos said:

Maybe this is stating the obvious but if one really has that kind of money and are doing business at that level in Thailand you need to be putting in serious time cultivating a group of higher ups to intervene and protect you when things head south.  This is the "Thai way" and it works most of the time.  Its not true that money alone will assure you of this support, money is simply the price of entry, a seat at the table.  It's about building mutually beneficial relationships ... and getting off ones backside learning to speak Thai reasonably well.

 

 

You mean he should go from being a legit, legal business man in his country, to joining up, cowing down, playing ball with, and paying off, Government gangster's, and technically becoming a gangster, briber of officials, gangster thug himself, just to, "get along" and avoid being robbed???.. He wasn't doing business in Thailand, (at least not from the reports)... He moved here to retire, from a LEGIT business he ran in Holland, only to be ROBBED by not some shady, back-room thugs,, but GOVERNMENT officials, and the "justice" system,,, 

Well the way you are suggesting is one way of doing it though it really would be overkill in his circumstances not to mention feeling unclean on a daily basis.  There certainly are better ways to accomplish the same end such as building relationships.  But to each his own I guess.  I do wonder how he came to the attention of the people who put him through this.  I suspect he was not being very low key.

[Maggusoil]

On 6/22/2017 at 0:53 AM, SiamBeast said:

Deport him if you must, but he doesn't deserve to be in jail. It's pure BS.

But why deport him? These imbecile turkey, politically correct, point scoring fun police are just pissed off he has made a fabulous success of selling one of the world's most useful substances, legally and for profit and then used the profit to come to Thailand and set up with one of their own, buy a few beautiful toys because it is also "fun" to do so and enjoy his life.

Legal punishment is reserved for those that do other's harm. Has he harmed anyone? Let's not go down the road of selling drugs is harmful before we pass legislation to take away licences from every club, pub, hotel, restaurant, liquor store, corner store or supermarket to sell the world's most harmful digestible drug.

Get real. Apologise to him for the dreadful mistake you/we have made. Compensate him generously for the injurious and wrongful deprivation of his liberty and set him free. For God's sake people. Lets get our priorities right. My God.