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Thailand: tourist Police Commander to investigate jet-ski scam at Patong Beach

As reported by phuketgazette.net, a complaint by a senior Chinese consulate official has prompted Tourist Police Commander Roy Ingpairoj to visit Phuket in person to investigate unscrupulous jet-ski operators at Patong Beach. Maj Gen Roy led 22 Tourist Police officers on an inspection of Patong Beach late yesterday afternoon. Read Article

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India: non- magnetic metal detectors to be installed at 3 airports to eliminate gold smuggling activities

As reported by Thehindu.com the Customs and Central Excise Department will soon install electronic detectors sensitive to non-magnetic metals at three airports in Kerala to check the rampant smuggling of gold from the Gulf into India. Read Article

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Manas airport, kyrgyzstan: passenger arrested trying to smuggle jewellery items to Istanbul

According to Eng.24.kg an attempt illegally to export gold from the country was suppressed in Manas airport, press service of the company reported. According to its data, on March 6 at 4.30 a.m. officers of the Aviation Security Service of Manas international airport found 26 gold jewelry items (rings, earrings) in the luggage of a [...]

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Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan: man arrested trying to sell millions of counterfeit stamps

As reported by Eng.24.kg the Corruption Control Service of the State National Security Committee (GKNB) has revealed and confiscated a large batch of excise stamps, Public Relations and Mass Media Department of GKNB informed today. Read Article

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India: six arrested on counterfeit money charges

The counterfeit currency prevention wing of the Crime Branch CID Police has unearthed a counterfeit currency racket and arrested a six member gang and looking after one more here. Read Article

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China: counterfeit walnuts sold in Guangzhou

According to Izismile.com the Chinese police are investigating the sales of fake walnuts that have been found to be prevalent in the city of Guangzhou. These imitation nuts are actually shells filled with cement wrapped in cloth. Read Article

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Africa and Asia topping the 2012 online fraud list

According to Prosecurityzone.com Iiovation has found that Africa had the highest rate of online fraud when compared to all other continents in 2012. Billions of online transactions processed with Reputation Manager 360—iovation’s shared device reputation and real-time fraud prevention service—were analyzed for geographic trends. The list of the top five continents that originated online fraud [...]

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Chon Buri, Thailand: Swedish man held in connection with large employment scam

Bangkokpost.com reported that a Swedish man has been arrested in connection with a job scam that left more than 100 Thai laborers 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 [...]

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Pattaya: Russian tourists victim of travel company scam

Bangkokpost.com reported that fourteen Russian tourists are demanding that police speed up their investigation into a scam by a Russian travel company in Pattaya. The tourists told the superintendent of Pattaya Police Station on Saturday that they had paid a total of 3 million baht for package tours but the operator did not keep her [...]

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Bangkok, Thailand: 4 arrested for online romance scam

Borneobulletin.com reported that Thai police have arrested three Nigerian men and a Thai woman on charges of luring women into romantic relationships via Facebook and other social-networking websites and swindling them, news reports said Wednesday. Read Article

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