Phuketwan Updating News Report
PHUKET: An Iranian and a Frenchman have been arrested and charged with stealing a large amount of money from safes at two Phuket resorts, Phuketwan has learned this afternoon.
Police are still counting the money in different types of currency.
The arrests at Baan Tonsai Gardens Resort in Patong follow a media conference earlier in the day on Phuket in which two Belarus men were accused of skimming one million baht using fake ATM card in Bangkok and another 100,000 baht in Phuket.
Mikalai Ramankou and Siarhei Bandarkou, both 35, were arrested after Siam Commercial Bank officials in Rawai reported them using ATMs in the district in unusual patterns.
Police found eight cards discarded in a toilet when the pair were arrested at Rawai beach Hotel about 5.30pm yesterday.
More of those quality tourists we keep hearing about? Definitely a new kind of tourist, they stay at a resort then rob the safe before leaving. A holiday where you actually return with more cash than you left with. Hopefully a diet of fish head soup and pig intestines over rice will reform them over the coming years.
Posted by Arun Muruga on December 26, 2014 19:06