Update: James EGLITIS deported to Thailand, reportedly having fun in Bangkok.

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Update: James EGLITIS deported to Thailand, reportedly having fun in Bangkok.

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Updating this thread: https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/posting ... f=9&t=6736

Wanted Australian released from prison and deported
Wed, 2 November 2016
Thik Kaliyann

An Australian man, wanted by police in his native country on kidnapping and torture charges, was released from Siem Reap provincial prison and deported to Thailand last week and has since been pictured enjoying the nightlife in Bangkok.

Accompanied by immigration officials to the departure gate at Siem Reap International Airport, Guido James Eglitis, 70, flew to Thailand at 9:30pm on October 29, hours after completing his sentence and being released from custody, Siem Reap Immigration Police chief Chea Kimsan said yesterday.

Eglitis was arrested in October 2015 and subsequently convicted of assaulting UK national David Scotcher during a home invasion in Siem Reap. At the time of his arrest, it emerged that Eglitis had also been charged in Queensland for the 2007 abduction and torture of a businessman in Brisbane, but had reportedly skipped on bail...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/w ... d-deported

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Fugitive Guido James Eglitis photographed at a beer bar in Bangkok on Sukhumvit Road – Photo Sidney Morning Herald.
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Article from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Australians are asking why Australian authorities have not demanded the extradition of James Eglitis, who jumped bail while committed to stand trial in Brisbane in 2007 on charges of kidnapping, deprivation of liberty, robbery, impersonating a police officer and possessing restricted items.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian- ... sfdb1.html
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Re: Update: James EGLITIS deported to Thailand, reportedly having fun in Bangkok.

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Thailand Nabs Fugitive Freed by Cambodia
by Janelle Retka | November 18, 2016

Weeks after Siem Reap provincial immigration police deported an Australian man wanted by Interpol to Bangkok, he was placed on Thursday in a Thai immigration prison and is expected to be extradited to his home country in the coming days.

Guido Eglitis, a 69-year-old private investigator, was charged with stealing the passport and camera of a British national in Siem Reap in October last year while posing as an Interpol agent, provincial immigration police said at the time.

When he was released after serving a year-long sentence in the provincial prison and deported on October 25, immigration police did not return him to Australia, despite his presence on Interpol’s wanted list for a 2007 incident in which he attempted to detain a man.

[Eglitis continues to deny any wrongdoing]
Mr. Eglitis said he had been working with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) for years assisting in investigations—one resulting in the 2007 charges, which he said were wrongly laid. In that case, he was accused of posing as a federal police officer in order to detain a businessman allegedly involved in a Ponzi-like scheme in which investors lost millions of dollars...

[After being deported from Cambodia] He said he chose to go to Bangkok in order to continue pursuing Australian criminals.
On Wednesday, he contacted the AFP to provide updates on his investigations, he said on Thursday, then was called to the immigration office and had his visa revoked.
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai ... ia-120698/

Back story : Conman James G Eglitis (Oz) and Brett Hastie (NZ) Arrested for Robbing Learn4Life English Teacher in Siem Reap, Cambodia
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