Royal Thai Police officers, investigating a car accident between Thai and Chinese drivers on Bangkok’s Sirat Expressway, stumbled upon a stunning twist—an unexpected link to a chilling kidnap-for-ransom scheme.
ThaiRath yesterday afternoon reported that Expressway Police Station 2 was called to the scene of a car accident on the Sirat Expressway by a 33 year old Thai man, Somphong Sisod. At the scene, officers discovered that a gray Toyota Yaris sedan had crashed into Somphong’s car, a white Toyota Fortuner SUV.
Somphong told officers that the driver of the sedan, later recognized as a 36 year previous Chinese man named Zhao Wulin, used a translation software to tell him that he would pay for the damage out of his pocket. Somphong declined the offer, advising Wulin to contact his insurance company as a substitute.
Somphong defined that the expressway police arrived and ordered him and the Chinese man to attend on the expressway for his or her insurance coverage firm representatives. Somphong revealed that another staff of police approached the Chinese man and instantly arrested him.
Somphong stated he was confused as a end result of the automotive accident shouldn’t have led to such a fast arrest. He added that he later realized that the Chinese man had kidnapped a Chinese lady for ransom. The woman was within the sedan at the time and took the opportunity in the course of the accident to flee the scene in a taxi.
Somphong said he did not know when the lady escaped as a result of he returned to his car after speaking to the Chinese man.
After questioning each the Chinese suspect and the victim, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Noppasin Poonsawat revealed the small print of the case to the media.
Noppasin defined that the Chinese lady worked in China as an agent for a cosmetic surgery hospital in South Korea, and the Chinese suspect, Wulin, worked as a chauffeur in Dubai. Both visited Thailand for a vacation.
The two met on the Telegram application and met in person after 10 days of online conversation. They drank alcohol collectively in a restaurant earlier than the lady got drunk and woke up the following day in Wulin’s resort room in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district.
Wulin invited her to take a trip to Pattaya and she agreed. Instead of enjoying the ocean vibes, Wulin took the lady to a secluded space, tied her up, and demanded 50,000 yuan, about 250,000 baht, from the victim.
Lacking the funds, the woman reached out to her friend, who promptly transferred the cash to her account out of concern for her safety. Wulin then took the woman to the bank to withdraw the money. However, the accident on the expressway disrupted his plan.
Officers are actually investigating whether Wulin had a warrant for his arrest in China or whether or not he had beforehand dedicated a crime in Thailand.
Commissioner Noppasin added that a comparable incident had just taken place on April 18, when a Chinese man killed a Chinese lady in a automotive accident.
Private added that the case bore similarities to a prior case on April 18 when a Chinese man kidnapped a Chinese woman from the entertainment venue, RCA, in Bangkok, the place he took her to a hotel and extorted money from her. The suspect managed to evade arrest by leaving Thailand.
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