Thailand’s Tourism Police have sacked an officer arrested for involvement in a transnational ATM skimming gang. Tourist Police Division Commander Pol Maj Gen Apichai Thi-amart said Pol Sen Sgt Maj Nontapan Saengsuk, 37, a Tourist Police officer, was dismissed from the agency following his arrest. Pol Sen Sgt Maj Nontapan was caught in Nakhon Ratchasima, together with two Russian men using an ATM ‘skimmer’ to hack information from their victims’ credit cards and making counterfeit credit cards to withdraw cash from ATMs. Some Bt2.8 million cash and 328 counterfeit credit cards were also seized. Read article
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According to thanhniennews.com, Ho Chi Minh City police confiscated 10 motorcycles with Thai license plates after their Thai riders who entered Vietnam as tourists were caught violating traffic laws on Wednesday. According to traffic police, the foreign riders entered a car lane on the Hanoi Highway, District 9. They failed to present driving licenses endorsed […]
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Times of Malta reports that two foreigners ended up in court today after assaulting the police when drunk in separate incidents early morning. Briton Michael Gill, 41, currently living in St Paul’s Bay, admitted to slightly injuring a taxi driver, resisting and assaulting the police in Paceville. He was sentenced to a nine-month jail term […]
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According to ansa.it, Italian police on Monday arrested a German tourist for carrying a samurai sword near a popular Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary in Naples. The man, 62, said he had the ‘katana’, in a case on his back, to defend himself. Carabinieri stopped the tourist outside the shrine of the Blessed Virgin […]
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Forbes reports that police in southern Russia allegedly detained, harassed, and threatened to jail two journalists reporting stories critical of the 2014 Sochi Olympics. According to Human Rights Watch, two reporters from Norway’s TV2 — the country’s official Olympics broadcaster — were harassed by Russian police over the course of a three-day reporting trip to […]
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Manchestereveningnews.com reports that a flight carrying Russian football fans to Manchester for Tuesday’s clash had to divert to Denmark to eject drunken passengers. The Easyjet Sunday service from Moscow, was forced to land at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark at 3.15pm amid reports one CSKA Moscow supporter had taken too much drink and had started pushing […]
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As reported by Stuff.co.nz, a British tourist has skipped the country for Bangkok, leaving behind a hard drive loaded with child pornography in a Wellington rental car. The hard drive was discovered in a rental car at Wellington Airport yesterday afternoon by rental staff, but the 46-year-old man who hired the car had already left […]
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Khaleejtimes.com reports that Sri Lankan authorities on Friday wiped all the data from the computer of an Australian media rights activist as she and a colleague were kicked out of the country, a local rights group said. Jacqui Park and fellow Australian Jean Worthington were packed onto a plane that flew out of Colombo airport […]
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As reported by Thehindu.com, a 34-year-old woman tourist from Russia was arrested at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport on Wednesday for unruly behaviour aboard a flight and for assaulting Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel. Mariia Kontrahhova, a Russian national, was taken by the Quick Response Team of the CISF from the aircraft after the crew […]
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The six Australians accused of murdering a Peruvian man in Lima have won the right to give statements on the case from Australia and avoided becoming the subjects of an Interpol red notice after a Peru court ruled in favour of their appeal against extradition. A statement from the group, dubbed the “Peru Six”, revealed […]
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