Aussie couple in Phuket arrested over fake robbery claim

**dirtydog** · 02-11-2011, 06:54 PM

Aussie couple in Phuket arrested over fake robbery claim

Head of Patong Investigation Team Maj Thammasak Boonsong points out the items originally reported stolen.

Abdul Karim Al-Rajab and Zeidan Nouha look on as their belongings are searched.

PHUKET: An Australian couple on holiday in Phuket have been arrested for filing a bogus report of being robbed in Patong with the aim of filing a fake insurance claim.

Abdul Karim El Rajab, 31, and Zeidan Nouha, 30, were arrested at the Sunset Beach Resort on Phra Barami Road in Patong yesterday.

According to a police statement, the couple have have been charged with intentionally providing false information to police officers.

Maj Thammasak Boonsong of Patong Police told the Phuket Gazette today that the couple confessed to police that the robbery they reported taking place on Thaweewong Road on Sunday was fictitious.

In their confession, the couple admitted to creating the bogus robbery in order to get the proper documents needed to file a claim with their insurance company, Maj Thammasak said.

In their original report of the incident, filed with police at 11:30pm on Sunday, the couple claimed they were driving a motorbike near The Kee Resort when a man on another motorbike snatched Ms Nouha’s shoulder bag and rode off.

They described the man as wearing a helmet and a yellow shirt. The description given was similar to that of an American thief recently caught in Patong.

Police yesterday returned with the couple to the scene of the alleged theft, a popular thoroughfare near Soi Bangla, and asked taxi drivers and store owners about the incident.

However, not a single person remembered hearing or seeing the robbery, said police.

Growing suspicious of the couple’s claim, investigating officers asked them to return to the police station for further questioning.

The officers then obtained permission from the hotel manager to search the couple’s hotel room with Mr Al-Rajab and Ms Nouha present.

In the room safe were the black Cannon digital camera, two Oroton wallets and Ms Nouha’s and Mr Al-Rajab’s driver’s licenses, all reported stolen.

Police found elsewhere in the room the pink Kakinu shoulder bag that Ms Nouha claimed was stolen.

Inside the bag was the credit card she also claimed was stolen, and in the couple’s luggage police found two white iPhone 4s – also reported stolen.

“We didn’t want to charge them, but recently there have been too many complaints from the [honorary] consuls [in Phuket]. They are always receiving reports of lost belongings, such as laptops, wallets and cameras,” said Patong Police Superintendent Arayapan Pukbuakao.

“Tourists of all nationalities commit these kinds of crimes. It’s always suspicious when they file a report and leave without making any effort to recover their stolen property. When we bring them to the general area the event supposedly occurred, they usually aren’t able to take us to the exact place they described in the report,” he said.

“These types of cases have increased since last year. So now we’ll charge all of them – we don’t want them to take advantage of us for their benefit,” he said.

Mr Al-Rajab and Ms Nouha are currently being detained at Patong Police Station.

They were due to return to Australia today, one of the investigating officers told the Gazette.

Phuket NEWS: Aussie couple in Phuket arrested over fake robbery cl

Typical bloody Aussies, AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI

**Davis Knowlton** · 02-11-2011, 07:03 PM

Excellent Aussie names! Does Oz have ANY immigration controls?

**WujouMao** · 03-11-2011, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Excellent Aussie names! Does Oz have ANY immigration controls?

Better than Blighty.

**dirtydog** · 02-11-2011, 07:22 PM

^They had to stop all controls when it got to 8 million Bruces and 8 million Shielas

**harrybarracuda** · 02-11-2011, 07:34 PM

Dirty Lebos. Arrested in Phuket? Sweet, this is one occasion you can actually laugh at how badly they're going to get screwed.

**taxexile** · 02-11-2011, 07:44 PM

we don’t want them to take advantage of us for their benefit,”

taking advantage for ones own benefit is a phuket thai monopoly, cant have foreigners doing it too.

her pussy should get a good workout in the womens cells.

**Aussie Tigger** · 02-11-2011, 07:44 PM

Makes one proud to live occasionally in our multicultural society NOT.

**socal** · 02-11-2011, 08:24 PM

Oh I thought only Thais where corrupt

at least that is what this site would have you believe

**Bettyboo** · 02-11-2011, 08:34 PM

^ all Thais are corrupt, all Canadians are gay... FACT!

**Sailing into trouble** · 03-11-2011, 07:01 AM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ all Thais are corrupt, all Canadians are gay... FACT!

As a Canadian I take exception that all Thai's are corrupt!

**Bettyboo** · 03-11-2011, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ all Thais are corrupt, all Canadians are gay... FACT!

As a Canadian I take exception that all Thai's are corrupt!

Sorry.

**Ghost who Walks** · 02-11-2011, 09:04 PM

Being a 'true blue Ozzie" it makes my eyes water and my gut palpitate when " aussies' who are arrested overseas for this type of crap have names such as El rajab and Zeida. Proper Ozzie's have names like Smith and Brown and Cobber and Mate etc etc etc.Why cant the GOV. make em change their name when they freely give out citizenship ?????

**natalie8** · 02-11-2011, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Excellent Aussie names! Does Oz have ANY immigration controls?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Dirty Lebos.

Exactly! And the Aussie government is much like the Canadian government in giving Lebanese priority over other backgrounds.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ all Thais are corrupt, all Canadians are gay... FACT!

**natalie8** · 02-11-2011, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ghost who Walks

Proper Ozzie's have names like Smith and Brown

But those are English / British names.

**OhOh** · 02-11-2011, 09:39 PM

3rd generation Aussies, they have learnt the ropes quickly.

**SiLeakHunt** · 02-11-2011, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

“Tourists of all nationalities commit these kinds of crimes. It’s always suspicious when they file a report and leave without making any effort to recover their stolen property. When we bring them to the general area the event supposedly occurred, they usually aren’t able to take us to the exact place they described in the report,” he said.

“These types of cases have increased since last year. So now we’ll charge all of them – we don’t want them to take advantage of us for their benefit,” he said.

So if you're reading this article and planning on pulling off a similar scam, remember to agree with your mate the exact spot where it took place.

Cheers

**Gerbil** · 03-11-2011, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by SiLeakHunt

It’s always suspicious when they file a report and leave without making any effort to recover their stolen property

That's bollocks. That's what insurance is for partly, to save you the hassle of having to track down and recover your own stuff if it does get stolen.

There will always be cnuts who take advantage of this though, which of course is why premiums are high.

**nigelandjan** · 03-11-2011, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by Gerbil

There will always be cnuts who take advantage of this though, which of course is why premiums are high.

You know don,t ya mate ,,,,,,, next time you get your quote

**bobo746** · 03-11-2011, 06:08 AM

I got no problem with them stitching up an insurance company their all kvnts anyway.
Lebs are usually a bit better at pulling scams than these two.

FarangRed · 03-11-2011, 07:16 AM

Throw the book at them for abusing Thailand's hospitality.

**Aussie Tigger** · 03-11-2011, 07:37 AM

This type of scam happens all the time,hence as a previous poster commented the high premiums.
It just grabs you though if one of our own Nationals does it and then them being the same nationality as yourself is highlighted.
Of course this then, for those who feed of this negativity provides an opportunity to engage in cultural bashing regardless of where ever the guilty party originated from.
Obviously it would be better if the report stated the offenders names and their crime first not focussing firstly on the Nationality.This in my opinion applies to all reports and all nationalities,after all no country is crime free or without its undesirables .

**IceSpike** · 03-11-2011, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

all Thais are corrupt, all Canadians are gay... FACT!

Not all Canadiens are Gay.

**Roger Ramjet** · 03-11-2011, 02:01 PM

Let's hope the Australian police run the ruler over these two, when they get out and get back to Australia. I bet there would be an interesting read on the prior history of both these two!..... and it would be interesting to know whether they are recent immigrants processed by the Australian Immigration office!........(refugees???)

**Mozzbie47** · 04-11-2011, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Roger Ramjet

Let's hope the Australian police run the ruler over these two, when they get out and get back to Australia. I bet there would be an interesting read on the prior history of both these two!..... and it would be interesting to know whether they are recent immigrants processed by the Australian Immigration office!........(refugees???)

They should do time in Thalaind, cos nothing will happen to them in Ozz.

**mingmong** · 03-11-2011, 05:52 PM

with names like that they would fit in to the ''Hells Angels'' or any other ''Bikey Band'' in Oz,

you have to be 'Mid Eastern' to earn your CRED!

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