Two people detained in Nong Khai and later transferred to Nonthaburi, where a macabre crime took place.
PUBLISHED: 10 Aug 2024 at 08: 38
UPDATED: 10 Aug 2024 at 16: 24
On Saturday, one evening after their arrest in Nong Khai, two Asian men were detained in Nonthaburi and are currently wanted in connection with the murder and dismemberment of a friend in April.
The suspects in the gang-linked violence have been in Laos since June, according to Thai authorities, who had fled after the April dying in the Bang Bua Thong area.
They were reportedly transferred to Thai government after being detained on Friday in Nong Khai, a province in northeastern Thailand, across the border from Vientiane, the money there.
Although Thailand and Laos do not have a formal extradition agreement, Nong Khai emigration business authorities apparently discovered that the wanted couple had entered Nong Khai illegally. They were apprehended after being discovered on Chalermphrakiart Road in the Muang area.
After that, the emigration authorities called the Bang Bua Thong train and sent them to Nong Khai to pick up the offenders.
After a court appearance when officers had ask their additional incarceration, the two were being held at the Bang Bua Thong place.
Takuya Kato, 50, and Hiroto Suzuki, 28, are accused of murdering and dismembering brother gang Ryosuke Kabashima, 47. Before discovering that the two had fled to Laos, Thai officials placed them on the wanted record.
On April 19, a body found in a bag of rotting pieces on Kabashima’s figure near Ban Kluai-Sai Noi Road in tambon Pimolrat in Bang Bua Thong was discovered in a bag of charcoal cheap.
Authorities believe the victim and two Chinese defendants were members of a large gang gang called Yamaguchi-gumi, according to sources with knowledge of the case.
A past president was detained in Lop Buri at the age of 72 in 2018, which made the Yamaguchi-gumi gang’s arrest in 2018 make headlines. He was afterwards sent to Japan for extradition.
On suspicion of deliberate death, concealing, removing, or destroying a body or body parts to conceal a death or cause of death, the Nonthaburi Provincial Court has issued arrest warrants for Kato, Suzuki, and a Thai vehicle.
The pilot, Kritsakorn” Games” Jaipithak, 30, was arrested before.
In Bang Bua Thong city of Nonthaburi territory in April 2024, rescue workers gather a bag containing mutilated body parts next to a track. ( Photo supplied )
Takuya Kato and Hiroto Suzuki are suspected of having Chinese documents. ( Photo: Royal Thai Police )