Police are collecting evidence so the court can issue arrest warrants for three Chinese men who they believed kidnapped and murdered a Chinese university student after failing to obtain a 2.5-million-baht ransom from her father in China.
Pol Maj Gen Nopasilp Poolsawat, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB), said the Chinese suspects have been identified as Zhou Pengfei, 24, Chen Saikang, 23, and Zhou Xiongfei, 23.
“Our investigation found they were all involved in the kidnapping and murder of Jin Can,” he said yesterday.
Jin Can’s body was found in a ditch on a deserted land plot in Nonthaburi’s Bang Yai district on Saturday afternoon.
Authorities found five stab wounds on the victim’s body, which was stuffed in a sack, as well as large gash on her right shoulder.
A towel was found wrapped around the victim’s neck.
Surveillance camera footage showed three men forcing the victim into a red Mazda car from Bangkokthonburi University last Tuesday.
They took her to a rented house in a luxury housing estate in Bang Yai and held her there while they negotiated a ransom.
Investigators found out the kidnappers used WeChat to demand 500,000 yuan, about 2.5 million baht, from her father in China. The university told him that his daughter was last seen at the university between 5pm and 7pm last Tuesday.
The father, believing it was a prank, did not transfer the ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
Other footage showed three men arriving at the site where the body was found in the red Mazda at 1.30am last Wednesday.
The vehicle was returned to the rental company on Phetchaburi Road on Thursday, before the men left for Chengdu, Pol Maj Gen Nopasilp said.