Discussed: 16 Mar 2024 at 21: 28
A Russian pair who wanted to extort 1.8 million baht in bitcoin from a Russian agent couple on Koh Samui was detained in Kazakhstan about two years after being on the run, increasing the total number of foreign suspects detained to six.
Danil Ugay was detained by Interpol in Kazakhstan, and he was flown up to Thailand via Suvarnabhumi Airport on Friday night by Air Astana.  ,
The 43-year-old Russian was wanted on an arrest warrant for cooperation with a stolen property, real assault without bodily or mental hurt, and coercing with others through implied threats, according to the Koh Samui Provincial Court’s arrest warrant on October 3, 2022.  ,
A policeman group was assigned by Pol Lt. Gen Suraphong Thanomjit, director of the Provincial Police Region 8, to transport the suspect again to Koh Samui, a well-known tourist area in Surat Thani state.
The suspect admitted to being the man described in the arrest warrant after the police squad showed him it. Finally, the soldiers led him to board a trip to the Koh Samui airport. He was then transported to the police station in Koh Samui.
Danil Ugay, 43, Russiann nationwide, 43, the next suspect in the Samui bribery event is handed over to police at Suvarnabhumi airports on Friday. ( Photo supplied / Supapong Chaolan )
Evgenii Abdullin, 31, and his family Ekaterna Abdullin, 31, both Russian citizens, filed their problem with Pol Lt Col Udomsak Thappa, research chief at Koh Samui place, on Sept 15, 2022.
In a coffee shop on Koh Samui, the pair reported that four foreign nationals arrived in a dark de and two more foreign nationals on a dark bike. The group threatened them and extorted 1.8 million baht from them.
Three Kazakhstani nationals, two German nationals, and one Russian were the suspects when police started the investigation.  ,  ,
Among the suspects, Andrey Nizhegorodtsev, a 37- year- old Kazakhstani who was the gang leader, was arrested , in Pattaya, Chon Buri, on Sept 28, 2022. Four others were caught on Koh Samui, while Mr Ugay, the last suspect, managed to flee before being caught by Interpol.
Before being apprehended, the suspects in the extortion case had run businesses and traveled between Chon Buri, Samut Prakan, Phuket, and Surat Thani, according to police.
A police report details the six foreign nationals who were detained in 2022 after extorting 1.8 million baht in cryptocurrency from a Russian realtor couple on Koh Samui. ( Photo: Supapong Chaolan )