Thai Immigration Police Catch Gold Scammer

Contrary to what some of the victims thought, there was no corruption in the issuance of Mr. Shaw’s entry visa. He entered the Kingdom at the airport in Bangkok on September 15 on an Australian passport and was arrested by the Royal Thai Police Immigration Bureau officers and taken into custody where he was a prisoner at the Nong Pali Jail in Pattaya for over a month until he was bailed out. Authorities say they are still in possession of that passport.

However, while further criminal charges were pending against Mr. Shaw by others who as investors in the gold scheme say they were cheated out of millions of US dollars, Mr. Shaw was bailed out of jail and did not appear for his trial at Pattaya Municipal Court.

Another fugitive warrant is now out with his name on it and authorities at Interpol, police all over Thailand and surrounding countries, are on the lookout for Mr. Shaw. When found, he will be returned to Pattaya to face numerous criminal charges.

Investigation shows promises of up to 20% returns per month were made to at least 17 living in 8 different countries who met Mr. Shaw in Pattaya. These investors are claiming they were cheated out of more than US$2.3 million and some say they received death threats when they asked for their money back.

Mr. Shaw failed to appear for his court date in the charge Philip Shields brought against him with the support of Interpol, Pattaya Police and the Pattaya District Attorney’s office and another fugitive warrant is now in effect and Mr. Shaw will be arrested on sight.

Further charges brought by at least five other investors are pending in Pattaya, Spain and Italy.

Pattaya Times editors have met with the Chief of Pattaya Police, the Chief Prosecutor, members of Pattaya Municipal Court and the second in command at Chonburi Immigration.

Our findings are that many criminal charges have been brought against Lance Shaw over the last two and a half years at Pattaya Police station by alleged victims.

We do not find any corruption within the actions of Thai officials, however we question why three of the cases against Mr. Shaw have not been forwarded to the Prosecutor’s office after two years and we will make sure they are completed to determine if they are valid. The Prosecutor says the cases should be sent to his office within two months if they have merit.


One of the complainants took matter into his own hands and was the only one to, so far, get an arrest warrant issued against Mr. Shaw for the money he gave Mr. Shaw and did not get back. Below is his account. His name is Philip Shields.

“I spent two and a half months going up and down to Bangkok to all the official offices not just once but over and over again and everybody knew of this Lance Frederick Shaw case and how serious it was because of the amount of investors who lost their money and all the charges going in against him all over the world specially in Pattaya. We caught him and they let him go, WHY?” concluded Mr. Shields.

“Lance Shaw fraudulently stole US $90,000 off me and a lot more off my family and friends one of whom has now lost his house because he remortgaged it and gave the money to Lance Frederick Shaw and is now an alcoholic who is threatening to commit suicide,” claims Philip Shields.

“And another close friend gave Lance Shaw US $80,000. He is only a young man with three children now he and his wife have split up over the trickery and lies that Lance Frederick Shaw was telling them that he was going to give them their money back personally himself and now Lance Frederick Shaw is saying he never said that.”

“This Lance Frederick Shaw case is full of corruption obviously the system is corrupt and it is not just the old guard because no one can do anything that the other one does not know. What we want to know is who is investigating him being released without the public prosecutor knowing or the investigating officer or my corrupt lawyer. The Pattaya Police investigator told me he would phone me when Shaw goes to court and told me he will not be granted bail and if he does he will put another charge in against him and he will automatically be back in jail. If I was there now I would be in the prosecutors’ office asking what went wrong,” added Mr. Shields from his other home in the Canary Islands.