Theft of 196 million yen in Ratchada - "an inside job"

[webfact]

Theft of 196 million yen in Ratchada - "an inside job"

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- Police investigating the assault of a man and the theft of 196 million yen or 60 million baht are convinced it was an inside job.

 

A man was left needing 20 stitches and an orange Ford was stolen along with the money.

 

Yesterday Pahonyothin police interviewed a 51 year old security guard at the condominium who said that he had been on duty in the 5pm to 5am shift.

 

No one from outside had come in as he had not exchanged any ID for visitors passes.

 

Outsiders needed key cards to actually enter the property.

 

Police are studying CCTV but believe that someone known to the victim attacked him after the money was brought from the airport.

 

It is believed that two persons in the gang may have turned on the victim.

 

Investigations continue.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-10-04

[Thaiwrath]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

Police investigating the assault of a man and the theft of 196 million yen or 60 million baht are convinced it was an inside job.

 

Thai police are getting smarter by the day.

Who would have believed it ?????????  

[worgeordie]

"No one from outside had come in as he had not exchanged any ID for visitors passes."

and he never fell asleep or went to the toilet.

regards worgeordie

[Redvic]

My god someone in the RTP has a brain. Shock horror. ?

[Mickmouse1]

Genius. ....I know you need Post Doc  diploma to get to that level of thinking?

[Mickmouse1]

I wonder if Japanese Custom declaration form is available ? presuming the Thai 1 is?

[manicmike68]

Working a 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. shift? Isn't that a little excessive?

[webfact]

Police investigate ‘insider job’ in robbery of 200m yen

By Supachai Phetchthewee 
The Nation

 

 

Police believe that the Monday night robbery, in which hooded armed men stole Bt197.96 million yen (Bt60 million) in cash and a brand-new Ford pickup truck from a diamond merchant’s employees at a Bangkok condominium parking lot, might be an inside job.

The perpetrators might know gold and jewellery exporter Pattharit Taerattanachai, 34, or have had access to information about his business operations, city police chief Lt-General Charnthep Sesawet said.

 

“Investigators don’t focus on any person or group in particular, and as of now everyone is treated as a potential suspect,” he said.

 

Police had interviewed 10 witnesses including Pattharit, his current and former employees, and partners in the company, Charnthep said.

 

Officers also had conducted a simulation of the crime and were investigating how the assailants gained access to the condominium’s fifth floor parking lot, which requires a key card.

 

Police also told Immigration Police Bureau officers to watch border checkpoints, especially those near gambling operations in neighbouring countries, for the passage of suspects carrying suspicious amounts of Japanese currency, he added.

 

Investigators were also scheduled to meet at 8pm on Wednesday at the Paholyothin precinct to discuss the case.

 

Charnthep added that he expected police would arrest the suspects soon, because there had been a similar heist in 2012, when an Indian businessman involved in a money exchange was robbed of Bt50 million in the Bang Rak area.

 

Pattharit filed a robbery complaint at almost midnight on Monday after his employees, Jirapat Pithakkitwattana and Kiatipong Peungyims, were attacked and robbed at the Ratchada Pavilion condominium parking lot at 11.15pm.

 

Another company employee, Narongchai Sawadipol, had brought the cash from Japan to Suvarnabhumi International Airport in carry-on luggage earlier on Monday night.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30328453

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-10-04

[lordblackader]

Perhaps a silly question, but why did someone bring that amount of Yen into the country to begin with?

[amrishtony]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Another company employee, Narongchai Sawadipol, had brought the cash from Japan to Suvarnabhumi International Airport in carry-on luggage earlier on Monday night.

 

Well, is it legal to bring in so much of cash (197.96 million Yen)  in to Thailand and that too through swampy in a carry on luggage?

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, lordblackader said:

Perhaps a silly question, but why did someone bring that amount of Yen into the country to begin with?

Cash is invisible.... international transfers of some kind are traceable

work the rest out for yourself!

[Nemesis7]

Sounds like a movie story to me

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, lordblackader said:

Perhaps a silly question, but why did someone bring that amount of Yen into the country to begin with?

New sin taxes probably

[gk10002000]

3 hours ago, amrishtony said:

 

Well, is it legal to bring in so much of cash (197.96 million Yen)  in to Thailand and that too through swampy in a carry on luggage?

The original article a day or two ago said the money had been declared and checked in with customs and the authorities.  that alone is a red flag because now lots of people knew there was lots of cash coming in.  Inside job or not, now there are lots of people that knew about the cash

[PAIBKK]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Police also told Immigration Police Bureau officers to watch border checkpoints, especially those near gambling operations in neighbouring countries

 

So, are the backdoors of the casinos closed now, since YL used them in August ???