Police arrested three Chinese nationals in Thailand for allegedly kidnapping and extorting about three.2 million baht from a Chinese girl. Officers arrested two males and a woman at a hotel within the Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province.
A 23 year old Chinese woman finding out for a bachelor’s diploma filed a complaint with the Thong Lor police on Friday. In it, she claimed she had been abducted by a Chinese girl she had lately met with the help of two Chinese males.
Though their identities were not released, the three Chinese nationals have been arrested this morning and are presently being held for further investigation at Thong Lor police station in Bangkok.
According to the victim’s story, she went to dinner in Ekamai with the Chinese woman on March 16. After dinner the girl introduced her to a black Toyota Alphard parked nearby. Things changed abruptly when a knife-wielding man pressured her into the vehicle the place one other man was waiting behind the wheel. The lady she had eaten with climbed into the van additionally and they drove off, Bangkok Post reported.
While within the van, she was threatened at knife-point and forced to transfer 250,000 yuan (about 1.24 million baht). They additionally made her use a crypto app to switch the stablecoin Tether value about 273,000 baht. Over the course of the night time, one artificial her get her boyfriend in China to send one other 50,000 USDT (Tether), about 1.7 million baht.
The Chinese woman says she spent the night time together with her three captors in the van as they fleeced her and transferred her money to their account. By the top of the evening, that they had sucked about three.2 million baht out of her numerous cash sources and into their account.
The next morning, the 2 Chinese males dropped the victim and the feminine Chinese accomplice within the Min Buri space of Bangkok. The victim went residence alone to her apartment in Asoke.
She then filed a criticism with the Thong Lor Police, who then performed an investigation. Police assumed that the two Chinese males and the Chinese woman were from the same gang and dealing along with the lady appearing as bait to lead their victim to the boys waiting to extort her.
Treasure traced her steps, beginning at the restaurant in Ekamai, the place they discovered CCTV footage of the two Chinese girls getting into a Toyota Alphard. Further investigation revealed that the Toyota Alphard was rented for 6,00 baht a day from a car hire store to be used from March 15-17. It was returned to the store on March 17..