Three Chinese men have already been arrested for apparently abducting a businessman from Vanuatu in Bangkok for a 10-million-baht ransom.
A source said This individual Junhui, 37, Jinyong Zheng, 36, plus Heng Yaofeng, thirty-five, were arrested with a joint team of local and migration police at Suvarnabhumi airport while endeavoring to board a Qatar Airways flight in order to Qatar at about 1am on Thursday.
Police apparently confiscated a 25-million-baht wristwatch and a key to a Mercedes-Benz prior to charging them with fraud.
Three were reportedly taken to the Wang Thonglang district police office for interrogation.
According to the source, a probe began after the victim’s sweetheart told police about his abduction from a residence in the Rama IX area within Huai Khwang area on Wednesday afternoon.
She reportedly told police her boyfriend was arriving to meet the girl in his Mercedes-Benz when he was abducted by several men in a Toyota Fortuner right before her eye.
Area police and agencies from the Metropolitan Police’s Investigation sub-division four were called plus tried to track the suspects using SECURITY CAMERA footage, the source mentioned.
Ultimately, investigators managed to speak to the suspects with a phone call and tracked them down, the origin said.
Afterwards, the potential foods decided to dump the particular victim in an region around Soi Wat Lat Pla Duk in Nonthaburi, the source said.
The man took a taxi to Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district to see his partner before contacting law enforcement.
According to the initial investigation statement, one of the three potential foods owed the target money and the business person was held for a 10-million-baht ransom.
The victim had been told to move the money as he had been held in a car, it said.
However , his mobile phone was left from his residence, so the three only got the man’s brand-named wristwatch instead, it said.