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    Chon Buri: Swede arrested for overseas job scam

    Swede arrested in Chon Buri for overseas labour scam | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

    Swede arrested for job fraud

    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.

    The stranded workers were able to coordinate with Swedish authorities who helped them to return to Thailand, he added.

    The Swedish government later issued an arrest warrant for Mr Hallikainen and also cancelled his passport.

    Pol Maj Gen Roy said the Swede used the money from the fraud to escape to Thailand in 2011. He added that the man was constantly changing his hideout, making him difficult to track down.

    Police said they recently received information from a local resident that the wanted man was living at a house in Muang district of Chon Buri, which led to the arrest. He will be sent to the Immigration Bureau for further legal proceedings.

    Mr Hallikainen had confessed, and some Thais also were involved in the scam, said the tourist police chief, who plans to track down other gang members.


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    He borrowed 13m to pay their airfares, then didn't pay their slaries???
    This story seems a bit light on details.

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    Swede boy probably flew them over , the job he had lined up for them fell through , he cut his loses abandoned them .
    You think the immigration would have noticed , as if they believed they were entering to work legaly , they would have said so .
    One glance at him is enough to tell he's a tosser , Timberland top addidas joggers on a 52 years old ?
    dressed in labels like a 14 year old

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    Timberland top addidas joggers
    Must say I never, and never would have, noticed the brand of shoes he was wearing. Must be a chav thing.

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    addidas trousers or what ever they call them , nylon track suit bottoms that's it
    On his feet ? looks like some poncy hiking boot

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    Yes, but I'm still trying to work out how you knew the brand ot tshirt FFS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Koojo View Post
    Yes, but I'm still trying to work out how you knew the brand ot tshirt FFS.
    The big letters advertising the brand on the front of the shirt may provide a clue....

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    Doesn't look very sorry does he?

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    ^ Indeed, he looks rather comfy.

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    So a 100+ Thai's enter Sweden,how. All at once? On what Visa? Return Aeroplane ticket?

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    Heaps of thais enter Sweden legally year after year to pick wild berries in the woods up north

    And this story occurs year after year

    Usually thais do the scamming though

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    Must have the wrong guy, nobody is pointing.

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    How can the Swedish government cancell his passport? Maybe because he is from Finland? Hallikainen sounds more like a name from Finland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wizard of Oz View Post
    How can the Swedish government cancell his passport? Maybe because he is from Finland? Hallikainen sounds more like a name from Finland.
    you beat me to it !

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    The oldest trick in the book.Cambodians are always paying big sums to agents for jobs overseas or in thailand for jobs that dont exist.
    Nigerians into it now was well.

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    yes, but it did not mention the Thais had paid him

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wizard of Oz View Post
    How can the Swedish government cancel his passport? Maybe because he is from Finland? Hallikainen sounds more like a name from Finland.
    There are a number of Finnish speaking Swedes and vice versa who are actually Swedish..... from Wiki...''The area of modern Finland was part of the Swedish kingdom for several hundred years, and about 360,000 present-day individuals with Finnish citizenship speak Swedish as their mother tongue. In Finland, language is typically considered the basic, but not the only criterion that distinguishes the Finnish-speakers and the Swedish-speakers from each other.[19] In general, Finland Swedes consider themselves to be just as much Finnish as the Finnish-speaking majority, but they have their own special identity distinct from that of the majority, and they wish to be recognized as such. In a 2005 survey by Svenska Finlands Folkting carried out among the Swedish speakers, when asked about the meaning of their identity, 82% of the respondents answered: "Both to belong to an own culture but also to be Finnish amongst the rest."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wizard of Oz View Post
    How can the Swedish government cancell his passport? Maybe because he is from Finland? Hallikainen sounds more like a name from Finland.
    It may be hard for you to grasp but a family name does not necessarily relate to where you were born and what citizenship you have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wizard of Oz View Post
    How can the Swedish government cancell his passport? Maybe because he is from Finland? Hallikainen sounds more like a name from Finland.
    What is to stop Sweden from cancelling his passport?

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    The Farms in England get their seasonal workers from Portugal,then the iron curtain fell,then Eastern Europe. First was Poland,Lithuania etc. Then when they joined the EU the next countries where sourced,Belgaria and Romania.At the end of the year they will be free to work in U.K So who's next?

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    and your point is?

    that Swede will be on his way home soon; he will gladly go back to a Swedish prison rather than sitting in one here

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    Typical slant given to this story which in a throwaway comment admits some other Thai were involved.

    The point is, exploitation of Thai by Thai is endemic in supplying labour to foreign markets from this country. Usually the Thai agencies simply split outrageous " fees " with their foreign counterparts and milk the workers for as long and as much as they can. Occasionally, as in this case, they go for the short game and rip them off in one hit leaving the putative workers either indebted but still in Thailand or stranded in the host country.

    In every case Thai agencies are at the heart of the trade which of course is simply human trafficking.

    But inevitably the extent of the trade will not be exposed lest profits be jeopardised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by draco888 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Koojo View Post
    Yes, but I'm still trying to work out how you knew the brand ot tshirt FFS.
    The big letters advertising the brand on the front of the shirt may provide a clue....
    Yeah, the joys of reading!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Koojo
    Yes, but I'm still trying to work out how you knew the brand ot tshirt FFS.
    You may live in China, but you're no Hong Kong Phooey.

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    "In August, Piratebay co-founder Fredrik Neij had his Swedish passport revoked by the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok. After an appeal the revocation was dismissed, with a ruling that the embassy cannot take away his passport.
    So again, how can they cancel his passport?, the only thing of I can think, he had 2 passports, 1 Finnish? 1 from Sweden.

    If you don't have a passport when you are not in your country of origin, would make you stateless? How is he supposed to travel back to Sweden or anywhere else.

    I do not think that they can revoke a passport from the country you originate from.

    They can confiscate your passport, preventing you leaving a country, but that's it!
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