John Barksdale held in Bangkok while authorities investigate Ormeus
A new report from the Daily Mail has confirmed John Barksdale remains in custody while authorities investigate.
Barksdale was arrested in connection with his Ormeus Global Ponzi scheme.
According to the Daily Mail report,
two alleged victims, Daranee Plusker and Bob Steed, complained to police in Bangkok last month that they were deceived by the American businessman in 2017.
Plusker and Steed are reported to have lost $325,000. The total amount lost by Ormeus Global victims is unknown.
Plusker and Steed’s complaint lead to an arrest warrant issued in Bangkok on July 8th.
After the warrant was issued Barksdale purportedly fled to Bo Put, an island getaway in Ko Samui District.
Police Colonal Suparerk Pankosol, Superintendent of Suratthani Immigration, said: ‘We found that the suspect fled from Bangkok and lived discreetly at his resort.
‘He allegedly carried out an overseas fraud, with alleged damage equivalent to 10 million baht.
He will be taken to Lumpini police station in Bangkok for legal action.’
In contrast to his victims, Barksdale appears to have been living in luxury until his arrest on Tuesday.
For reasons unknown, Barksdale had a chorus of large pink teddy bears to keep him company:
Hunting Barksdale down was a joint operation between immigration officials and the Lumpini and Bo Phut Police Departments.
Accompanying the Daily Mail’s report is a delicious video detailing the raid on Barksdale’s property and his subsequent arrest.
Say what you want about Thai officials but they certainly know how to put on a show.
Is he using some sort of BS Ormeus marketing slide as wall art?
These guys stole millions and millions and just get getting away with it for a little while.
Is Craig Pickering (the mega scammer) been caught yet? Craig is even a bigger scammer of Barksdale! They work together too and from USA
Bunch of dirty losers!
Yeah, basically a road map of his shell companies laid out for any investigators who come knocking.
Lol. I can kind of see the motivation. It’s a bit like the Great Train Robbery gang having a painting of the train hanging in their villa.
Still, you’d think that any halfway successful scammer could afford a Van Gogh or something to adorn their stolen property, rather than some boring clip art.
I lost a lot of money in this black hole, so I’ll admit feeling some vindication that Barksdale was arrested, but after reading this article i’m even more confused and angry.
Isn’t Bob Steed (cited in this article as the one who tipped off the police) the “Head Mining Consultant” for Ormeus? WTF!?
He’s still listed on their website as leading the US Division.
(support.ormeuscoin.com/support/solutions/articles/43000061144-is-bob-steed-still-our-mining-consultant)
It’s just not adding up.
Where is all the mining equipment that was shown in videos and tours? Where did my money go?
Bottom line: steer clear of this garbage.
Bob Steed. CHIEF Mining Consultant. Get it right. lolz.
youtube.com/watch?v=A5JTb65vu1U
Angry Dan, I’m sorry and I feel similar. This doesn’t add up at all.
So I did some digging.
Corporate has said that they had $250m of mining equipment. We saw the press, the facebook posts and live stream when Bob Steed gave everyone a tour in Utah.
Didn’t John Barksdale say at our last big event that the company had bought 40 or 100 big mining boxes that were supposed to buy ORME coin daily out of the market?
Is anyone getting mining deposits daily? Who has the equipment?
I don’t pretend to know Bob Steed personally, but I do recall overhearing or understanding that he is an owner or shareholder of a public company that specializes in hosting.
He said his business partner did well in internet shopping and I remember another person saying ‘iMall.’
I researched iMall and Utah and found that public company, i’m pretty sure.
Anyway, google told me about these Utah internet shopping scammers.
deseretnews.com/article/699110/2-Utahns-Internet-firm-to-pay-a-4-million-fine.html
And then I discovered that Craig Pickering the FTC violator (ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/1999/04/internet-mall-promoters-settle-ftc-charges) has a public company – Fortecx Inc.
The initial disclosure statement names Craig Pickering, Rodney Wilkerson, Barry Dixon. backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/financial-report/191282/content
Page 13 is particularly interesting… Guess what they do?
They host equipment and source power.
Maybe i’m jumping to conclusions, but do you blame me? Does this public company have the equipment and bitcoin?
I’m with Angry Dan on this, it’s weird that Bob Steed is named as having turned in Barksdale. Makes me wonder if they work together. Or is one thief turning on another?
Either way, if all of our money went to this public company in the USA, shouldn’t that be relatively easy to get back?
This sucks and it’s worse than any Ormeus rep understands fully. Please inform others. Maybe we could create some pressure to get something… anything back.
I agree, we should put pressure on getting our invested money back. They should be easy to track.
Apparently stateside the SEC are seeking comment from Ormeus victims.
Haven’t been able to confirm yet.
I was an early investor and I know both Bob and John. I would like to know what the story is myself.
Can’t get to my coins and I see the Ormeus Telegram groups are talking like everything is up and running.
How do I see where my coins are and do they still exist is my question.
The story is Ormeus is a Ponzi scheme and your money is gone.
Keeping track of Ponzi points in a backoffice won’t change that.
He’s very active in (Ozedit: Telegram group link removed)
Yeah not sure what happened with the Thai case. We never got a followup.
In any event Ormeus’ website is dead. Ormeus Coin’s public value remains dumped at 1.2 cents. 24hr volume is just under $1500.
Whatever Barksdale is doing in that group hasn’t done anything for Ormeus.