European men wanted by Interpol arrested in Thailand

PHUKET, THAILAND, November 6 (TNA) - Two European men, one is a Danish and the other is a Swedish, who are wanted by the Interpol, have been arrested by Thai immigration authorities. A 48-year-old Danish, identified as Peter Jensen, was arrested in Phuket Province in the Thai South on early Thursday morning, just before 1am. The Danish suspect, who was on the Interpol's red notice and wanted in Denmark for an alleged tax fraud of about 53 million baht, was nabbed at a restaurant in Phuket's Thalang District. The arrested Danish man was initially charged with overstaying in Thailand, as his visa has expired since April 24, 2013, after arriving in the Thai Kingdom through the Suvarnabhumi International Airport on August 31, 2010, but he has still been in Phuket. Earlier this week, a 36-year-old Swedish webmaster, identified as Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, was arrested at an immigration checkpoint in Nong Khai Province in the Thai Northeast, bordering Laos, for allegedly pirating famous movies worldwide. The Swedish man, a co-founder of The Pirate Bay website and had hidden in Laos, has been wanted by the Interpol and his home country's authorities for running, together with his three other associates, The Pirate Bay website for Internet users to download pirated movies worldwide free of charge and earning from advertisements on the site. A Swedish court earlier sentenced him to a 10-month imprisonment and a fine of 5 million US dollars or about 160 million baht, but the wanted Swedish jumped bail and escaped to Laos, where he has a local wife. He had, however, visited Thailand from Laos for 27 rounds before the arrest. Two months ago, his two accomplices were arrested in Cambodia but the other remains at large. Patarawit Pothiwat, representing the Thai Entertainment Content Trade Association, said hunts for the wanted Swedish webmaster and the other wrongdoers had taken for over three years and their illegal business had caused great damage to worldwide film industries. (TNA)