French woman arrested for alleged B200m ransom plot

French woman arrested for alleged B200m ransom plot
French woman arrested for alleged B200m ransom plot
A European woman was detained on Thursday night in a hotel in Bangkok for allegedly plotting the kidnapping of a well-known businesswoman’s young girl for a 200-million-baht compensation. ( Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham )

A European woman has been detained in a Bangkok motel on suspicion of planning an elaborate plot to kidnap a well-known businesswoman’s child in exchange for a 200-million-baht payment.

Around 10 p.m. on Thursday, Metropolitan Police Bureau ( MPB) officers detained Sandra Christina Marie Diersten, 45, at a hotel in the Silom neighborhood of Bang Rak district. On suspicion of unlawful council, she was wanted as a result of an arrest warrant the Criminal Court issued on April 5.

The arrest was made in response to a problem from a well-known woman to officials at Thong Lor authorities place, according to Pol Maj Gen Theeradet Thumsuthee, an analytical commander of the MPB.

According to the problem, a group of foreign citizens had conspired to seduce her seven-year-old child for a payment of 200 million ringgit. One of the reported gang members changed of soul and alerted the woman, who later learned the plan. The research that followed the release of a permit for the incarceration of Ms. Diersten, the alleged gang leader, was then launched by police.

On Thursday, Pol Maj Gen Theeradet led police police to identify Ms Diersten. The police discovered that she was staying with a Palestinian man at a motel in Silom, which led to her imprisonment.

During doubting, Ms Diersten denied all costs. She claimed to have been duped into investing with an American guy, the husband of the powerful Thai businesswoman, and that she was a entrepreneur.  

According to the think, she had invested about 185 million ringgit with the American, who had reportedly defrauded her. The Australian subsequently filed a police report to falsely accuse her of trying to kidnap his daughter, according to Ms Diersten, to evade paying his debts.

Out of health issues, she informed the officers that she had not reported entering Thailand.  

The think added that she first met the Palestinian man in Dubai before settling down with him at the hotel.  

The woman was taken to the Thong Lor place.

Police Maj Gen Theeradet claimed that the officials have obtained significant proof against her and were not persuaded by her statements.