Zimbabwean National Arrested in Bangkok for Phuket Romance Scam

BANGKOK — A Zimbabwean man has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating a romance scam that targeted Thai women in Phuket, swindling them out of cash, electronics, and other valuables before fleeing to Bangkok. Nigerian ‘romance scammers’ arrested in Patong Tourist police, acting on a Phuket Provincial Court warrant, apprehended 37-year-old Valentive (surname withheld) at a […]

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New Thai minister on US blacklist

The Yingluck II Cabinet, announced yesterday evening, was immediately rocked by a controversy after new face Nalinee Taveesin, who was appointed PM’s Office minister, was exposed as being on a United States blacklist due to her alleged business connections with Zimbabwe. Nalinee’s name was on the US blacklist of “cronies” of the much-abhorred Zimbabwean regime. […]

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