A rich Chinese man was kidnapped from his apartment in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday. He was stuffed into a plastic field and transported to Hua Hin for the night and held for a ransom of almost four million baht by a gang of Thai kidnappers, including his ex-girlfriend who is a beauty pageant contestant. It turns out the sufferer is needed for fraud in China. Instant within the case have been arrested.
On Saturday, the victim’s good friend Yu travelled to Lumpini Police Station and reported that he acquired a regarding video call from his friend Wang yesterday.
Wang said…
“You don’t have to report this to the police. They will release me if they obtain the cash.”
However, Yu grew concerned and determined to go to the police. Wang’s face was bruised, mentioned Yu.
Investigating officers say that the victim used to have a Thai girlfriend named Nampetch who he dated for about one yr. They broke up three months ago and lately received back together. Police say 24 yr previous Nampetch is a former magnificence queen, who competed as a contestant in the Miss Grand Suphan Buri contest in 2020.
Police say that Nampetch knew that Wang had a lot of money and belongings. Moreover, Wang is needed on a Chinese arrest warrant, making him a simple kidnap for ransom goal as he in all probability wouldn’t go to the police.
Police consider that Nampetch, with the assistance of her second boyfriend Guy, planned the kidnapping collectively and used the BMW that Wang purchased for Nampetch to commit the crime.
At 7pm on Friday, the gang arrived at Wang’s condominium in Sathorn and entered utilizing the spare key that Wang gave to his Nampetch to enter his room on the 17th floor.
The kidnappers tied up Wang’s palms and feet and used his telephone to request a luggage cart from the apartment workers. Then, one of many kidnappers went out and brought again a huge plastic field.
Wang was stuffed into the box, positioned on the cart, taken downstairs and put contained in the BMW he purchased. The four suspects drove to a home in Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, where they called Wang’s good friend Yu.
Then, the gang pressured Wang to transfer money right into a bank account belonging to Kob twice, first 2 million baht after which 900,000 baht. Then, they compelled the sufferer to switch 1.03 million baht to a lady named Ta, totalling three.93 million baht. The gang released Wang at a restaurant on Saturday.
Police say they’ve been able to get 2.three million baht again of the entire sum up to now and arrested six suspects, together with beauty queen 24 year outdated Nampetch, 24 year old Guy, Kob, June, Frog, and Joe.
Six suspects were arrested beneath suspicion of, joint kidnap for ransom of an individual over 15 years outdated by threatening to use violence or other strategies of coercion to detain and imprison, joint extortion, and collectively restraining or imprisoning others to deprive them of bodily liberty and permitting others to commit acts that trigger bodily or psychological hurt to the victim.
During interrogation at Thong Lor Police Station yesterday, Nampetch advised the police that she selected Wang because the victim as a outcome of she knows he’s a grey capitalist and does unlawful enterprise in Thailand, so thought that he wouldn’t go to the police. He provides her 100,000 baht in spending money per month, she said..