Swede arrested in Chon Buri for overseas labour scam

Swede arrested for job fraud

Published: 22 Feb 2013 at 21.02
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CHON BURI - A Swedish man has been arrested in connection with a job scam that left more than 100 Thai labourers stranded in Sweden.

Pol Maj Gen Roy Ingpairoj, the Tourist Police Division chief, said on Friday that Ari Veinko Juhani Hallikainen, 52, opened an overseas employment business in 2010. He falsely promised 164 people, mostly from northeastern Thailand, that they would get agricultural jobs abroad.

Police said the man borrowed 13 million baht from an external source to pay for the workers' travel expenses. When the workers reached Sweden, he abandoned them without paying their wages, Pol Maj Gen Roy said.

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tamsin
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Discussion 6 : 23 Feb 2013 at 09.156
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'While Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and even Vietnam are attracting highly skilled white foreigners, we seem to be attracting all the undesirable ones.' When a country is world renowned for it's sleaze and corruption, it's not likely it will attract the cream of society, is it.
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Discussion 5 : 23 Feb 2013 at 08.055
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THai government always present Thailand as a progressive country becoming a world class place yet here you are, Thai people seems desperately want to go out and work to other countries as farm worker. In short, these Thai are victims in their own country by it government and again victimized by other people from other country.
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Discussion 4 : 23 Feb 2013 at 07.504
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Interesting, Sweden cancels a passport for someone not yet convicted. I wonder if the Thai government will take notice and cancel a particular fugitive's passport.
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Discussion 3 : 23 Feb 2013 at 07.183
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Bail granted?: never for nasty farangs in a civil dispute but for Thai child torturers , convicted and sentenced murderers and serial rapists -no problem.

Whats the bet when this grubby little affair is washed out the Thai connection played a part in the police capturing the nasty farang and somehow the Thai connection ended up with the money duped from the Thai workers.
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Discussion 2 : 23 Feb 2013 at 06.102
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While Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and even Vietnam are attracting highly skilled white foreigners, we seem to be attracting all the undesirable ones. And many of these scumbags and criminals are behaving as if they are big shots, talking down to Thais.

I hope more of them will be arrested soon.
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Discussion 1 : 22 Feb 2013 at 22.041
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If he borrowed money (THB13m) from an external source to pay for their travel expenses, it means they didn't pay him to take them to Sweden. And again he didn't pay their wages when they got to Sweden.

What kind of agreement did they have with him prior to their journey to Sweden? There's always one.

Who paid for their lodgings and food?
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