Flukey,
tell us about the US$50,000 you conned out of Thai Sabai Airline's board, the CEO is very anxious to see you again in BKK.
Author: Noriega (registered user)
Date: 08-08-2005 11:46
The Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia) August 8, 2005 Monday
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Airline wheeler-dealer fights deportation bid
Chris Griffith
A QUEENSLAND businessman who was sued by the Japanese Government for a failed agreement to fly Red Army terrorists to Tokyo has been warned he would be shot if he entered Thailand after allegedly fleecing an airline of $US50,000 ($65,000).
Former bankrupt Luke Norman Butler, whose aircraft-related deals have angered the governments of Japan and Cameroon, also is wanted by police in Ghana in West Africa.
"I think that if he comes to Thailand someone would shoot him, maybe me," an angry Sabai Airlines chief executive officer Tanapat Bunyarak told The Courier-Mailyesterday.
Captain Bunyarak said Mr Butler had obtained $US50,000 from the board of Sabai Airlines as a deposit for three US-based 747-200 aircraft, which he apparently did not own.
In Ghana, Mr Butler faces arrest concerning an alleged fraud involving $US450,000. Police say Mr Butler had made false representations in that he had a Boeing 747 aircraft in Indonesia and needed money to bring it down to start an airline in Ghana. Mr Butler, whose wife Simone is from Ghana and who has been arrested, had opened an airline there, employed 40 staff and planned to engage 100 more, claiming his venture was backed by funding of $US8.5 million.
Mr Butler, who is at large and fighting deportation, had claimed he had forged a deal with US\'s Utilicraft Corp for his Brisbane company to buy 100 FF-1080 Freight Feeder aircraft for $1.2 billion.
However, in February his air licence was revoked and in May, Australian authorities banned him from managing corporations for three years.
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