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"Briton held in alleged $150m fraud
Police have arrested a Briton in Bangkok´s red light district who has been eight months on the run after [highlight=yellow:9899ef990b]allegedly embezzling US$150 million from a company in Dubai[/highlight:9899ef990b], police said on Thursday.
Michael Bryan Smith, 43, [highlight=yellow:9899ef990b]was arrested in the Nana area on Wednesday night after authorities in the United Arab Emirates sought Thailand´s assistance[/highlight:9899ef990b], police told a press conference.
Smith allegedly siphoned off other workers´ salaries into his own bank account while working as personnel manager at a Dubai property company, according the warrant from the UAE police said.
Police said Smith, who is married to a Thai woman, had travelled extensively through Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Thailand after fleeing Dubai.
They said Smith had denied all charges and the case would be handed over to the Attorney-General´s Office and the UAE´s application for his extradition would go through the proper procedures"
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/143937/briton-held-for-alleged-150mln-fraud
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"Interpol asked to help find Thaksin
Police have sought help from the Interpol unit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a search for fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who is believed to have been staying in that country.
The police move came after Pheu Thai Party MP Chalerm Yoobamrung admitted he had been to Dubai recently to visit Thaksin for three days.
Police Maj General Visanu Prasartthong-osot said the latest intelligence report showed Thaksin had not left the UAE, but police were checking if he had left the country under another name.
"We believe he is likely still in that country because it is not far from Thailand and he can use it as a base for his close aides to come and see him,´´ he said.
[highlight=yellow:9899ef990b]Visanu said he had submitted a request to the Attorney General´s Foreign Affairs office to seek the extradition of Thaksin, even though Thailand does not have an extradition treaty with the UAE. "We can ask for cooperation from the UAE since we had earlier helped them arrest and dispatch suspects wanted by them."[/highlight:9899ef990b]
After the court issued an arrest warrant for Thaksin, police stepped up pressure on him by asking Interpol police in 187 countries to help find and arrest him, he said. Thai police had been dispatched to countries Thaksin was believed to visit frequently such as Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Montenegro, Cambodia and the UAE.
Chalerm said he did not discuss politics or who would be the new party leader with Thaksin, but they talked about his well-being and his business. Thaksin told him he had bought an island in Montenegro to develop a real estate business, hoping to make billions of baht in profit by selling expensive mansions to Asian millionaires, following the success of Hawaii.
"Thaksin is living a good life in Dubai because the country highly honours him and has given him top security. The reports that said Thaksin is not welcome there are wrong. Dubai approved a visa for me 24 hours after I applied. Thaksin took me out shopping in malls and many people came to ask for his autograph and his picture,´´ he said.
Thaksin also won five goldmine concessions from a country in Africa, which had given him a special passport.
Responding to Chalerm´s revelation of his visit to Thaksin in Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said he had not made any progress getting Thaksin back because he had more important work to do, such as combating drugs and violence in the South. "
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/05/22/politics/politics_30103359.php
