According to Mr. Eglitis, it was suspected that Mr. Scotcher’s actual identity was David Shom, an Australian fugitive and suspected pedophile who fled the country almost two decades ago, whom he was helping Australian police track down.
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According to Bryan Littlely, a former Australian journalist who initially coordinated communication between police and Mr. Eglitis, and who declined to name the officers involved, high-ranking officials had up until that point been aware of the work the private investigator was doing on their behalf.
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“Mostly he (Eglitis) reported to Brian LITTLELY who would forward the information to me. Brian is a reporter I believe. I do not know what AN (aka Eglitis) was doing in Cambodia. I was informed that he had sighting of who he believed was SHOM on 21/9/2015,” he said.

BRAT17 wrote:Eglitis was a bounty hunter. Any suggestion australian police didn't know where he was or what he was doing and he was a "fugitive" is a bit far fetched. They just didn't really bother in my view AFP called me the day he was arrested and kind of asked what he'd want them to do

Brewer wrote:Who exactly is Shom and what has he done?

Leon Mark Melzack, 51, and co-accused David Allen Shom, 51, were charged with a series of child sex offences in March, 1997, and bailed to face the Western Australian Magistrate's Court.
Both men failed to appear and bench warrants were issued for their arrest after inquiries revealed the pair had left the country bound for Cambodia just two days after being granted bail. These warrants are still active.
Evidence suggests that neither man has entered back into Australia under their real names but whether they have assumed alternative identities remains a mystery.

Leon Mark Melzack and David Allen Shom were charged in 1997 with child sex offences but, two days after being granted bail, fled to Thailand and then Cambodia, after which the trail went cold. Sixteen years later, they are still on the run, and believed to be living in Bali under assumed names. However, the Australian child abuse squad spokesperson says that “we have no idea where they are.”