Tesco Blackmail From Nana Internet Cafes

[roamer]

Just saw this from Bangkok Post, come on , own up if it was you or name a likely suspect.

EMAIL EXTORTION

British man quizzed about Tesco threats

WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM

Lumpini police and immigration authorities were last night questioning a British man suspected of sending emails demanding money from Tesco in the United Kingdom.

Stephan Alexander, 36, and his wife were taken from the Nana area near Sukhumvit road and handed to the Crime Suppression Division police, a source on the investigation team said.

Mr Alexander denied sending the threatening emails, the source said. He was still being questioned at press time.

The CSD was working closely with Scotland Yard. UK police were still not convinced Mr Alexander was the right man, said the source.

Scotland Yard investigators are in Bangkok working on the case.

The arrest came after police viewed the image taken from a security camera at an internet cafe where a man sent an email to the superstore firm in London. The man in the image was a large, well-built Westerner wearing a white T-shirt and glasses.

The source said the man had sent the messages from five internet cafes, all of them located on Soi Nana, to Tesco executives in the UK.

He threatened to poison food in Tesco supermarkets if they did not pay him 2 million (136 million baht) in cash.

The first message was sent on May 21. The latest on Wednesday at 9pm from an internet cafe in the area.

Edited June 7, 2007 by roamer