Favors sought in exchange for Chaowalit’s arrest in Thailand
PUBLISHED: 4 Jun 2024 at 11: 50
Thailand has requested the favor of the Indonesian officers by locating and detaining a wanted drug lord who is thought to be hiding in the country.
Indinesia’s narcotics division chief Pol Brig Gen Mukhi Juharsa said on Sunday that Indonesian National Police ( Polri ) wanted Fredy Pratama in exchange for the extradition of Chaowalit, alias Paeng Nanode, Malaysia’s Bernama news agency reported.
” There’s a favour, there’s a return. We ask Thailand to even get Fredy”, the media agency on Monday , quoted him as saying in a statement issued on Sunday.
On Sunday, Polri announced on its X consideration that the request had been sent to the Royal Thai Police Office. The Indonesian criminal is officially hiding in a Thai jungle, it claimed.
The Indian medicine lord supposedly controls a syndicate in Thailand and Malaysia that is connected to organized gangs in other East Asian countries.
According to Indonesian officers, the drug ring traffics in methamphetamine medications from the Golden Triangle. ( continues below )
Fredy Pratama’s photo appears on the Interpol site. The Indonesian police are searching for the medicine ring’s head. ( Photo: Interpol website )
Authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand detained 39 people during a three-country procedure in September of last year, but Fredy is still at large.
Wahyu Widada, chief of the Indonesian national police criminal investigation department, said in September that Fredy’s network had since 2020 amassed more than 10.5 trillion rupiah ( about 24 billion baht ) in assets including real estate, according to Reuters.
According to the Indonesian cocaine department commander, Chaowalit was scheduled to be deported from Indonesia to Nakhon Si Thammarat on Tuesday this year.