Film director’s ‘abduction’ in Myanmar now disputed

Famous film director and fight choreographer Ramai “Danny” Moriphan, 40, was repatriated via the Tachileik-Mae Sai border in Chiang Rai yesterday right after allegedly having been held captive in Myanmar’s Wa State given that Jan 4.

Members of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment received Ramai through Myanmar officials close to 9. 30am and he was taken to the military camp within the province for a debriefing on his ordeal.

The case captivated attention on Come july 1st 11 when his mother, Kham, filed a request along with police to investigate her son’s alleged abduction by the United California State Army (UWSA) in Mong Tong township in Myanmar’s Shan State. Their mother also handed police pictures of her son, who was shown chained upward, along with a written notice saying he had been physically and mentally abused. The particular ethnic army required a ransom associated with 24 million baht.

Local police in Chiang Rai were ordered to investigate and focus on repatriating Ramai.

On Weekend, UWSA soldiers delivered the director to Myanmar officials within the border town associated with Tachileik, Shan Condition. Myanmar officials kept him for a day for questioning just before informing the Thai-Myanmar Township Border Panel of his release yesterday, a source stated.

The original source added that Ramai’s story conflicted with the account given earlier by his loved ones. He apparently informed Myanmar authorities that he had not been abducted by UWSA; rather, he or she claimed he had journeyed to Wa Condition of his own volition to find therapy to have an undisclosed sickness however been suffering from. This individual added that he had not become entangled using a drug-trafficking syndicate. Rame was released from the military camp around 3pm yesterday. He has been taken to Chiang Rai police station where he was met simply by his mother.