A Asian national who was detained at the frontier in Aranyaprathet claims he was not involved in the B70m assault.
PUBLISHED: 17 Aug 2024 at 14: 12
A Asian man has been detained in Sa Kaeo after allegedly driving a car for a group of Chinese males who robbed a friend of 70 million baht of online currency and different 10 million baht of other assets in Pathum Thani.
At the Khlong Luek immigration station in the border province’s Aranyaprathet neighborhood on Friday night at 7 o’clock, officers and immigration officials spotted a guy driving a Toyota Vios with Bangkok license plates.
Nguyen Ba Hien, 35, was the driver of the car when the soldiers stopped it for a research and discovered him on Wednesday as the suspect in the alleged robbery of a Chinese business in Pathum Thani.
At 2 a.m. on Wednesday night, the assault took place at a home in the tambon Ban Mai neighborhood of Pathum Thani.
The victim, identified as Ke Jibao, a 35-year-old Foreign business, and his family were asleep in their home when four suspects wearing balaclavas broke into their home. Each of them had a razor and a gun in hand. Their hands and feet tied up Mr. Ke, his partner, and a girl.
Mr. Ke was given the order to make a call to a Chinese family to deposit$ 2 million ( roughly 70 million baht ) in digital money into their account. After agreeing to the transfer, they took the house’s surveillance cameras servers and fled with the victim’s dark Toyota Alphard, funds, and other items worth more than 10 million baht.
Authorities have launched a massive hunt for the crew, whose members were Chinese citizens.
The arresting group seized the Taiwanese suspect’s passports and two cellular phones. He was immediately accused of overextending his card.
During doubting, the assume denied any involvement in the assault. He claimed to have been hired to take the four men from Bangkok’s Rama IX neighborhood half, on August 8 and 14, respectively. He eventually brought them back to the Rama IX region, he claimed.
The believe may be turned over to the Pathum Thani Police station for more legitimate action at the Pak Khlong Rangsit place.