Unexpected twist: Chinese accident investigation unveils chilling kidnap-ransom scheme in Bangkok

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Royal Thai Police officers, investigating a car accident between Thai and Chinese drivers on Bangkok’s Sirat Expressway, stumbled upon a shocking 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 grey Toyota Yaris sedan had crashed into Somphong’s car, a white Toyota Fortuner SUV.

 

Somphong told officers that the driver of the sedan, later identified as a 36 year old Chinese man named Zhao Wulin, used a translation application 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 instead.

 

Somphong explained that the expressway police arrived and ordered him and the Chinese man to wait on the expressway for their insurance company representatives. Somphong revealed that another team of police approached the Chinese man and immediately arrested him.

 

Somphong said he was confused because the car accident should not have led to such a quick arrest. He added that he later learned that the Chinese man had kidnapped a Chinese woman for ransom. The woman was in the sedan at the time and took the opportunity during the accident to flee the scene in a taxi.

 

by Petch Petpailin

Top Photo via Facebook/ สนามบอล ไปทางไหน

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-09-15

 

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[Gecko123]

Check out this CCTV footage of what happened after the rear end collision. Pretty bizarre!

 

 

[hotchilli]

Those pesky Chinese entrepreneurs.

[Seth1a2a]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Chinese man had kidnapped a Chinese woman for ransom

 

She's Chinese, but she escaped with the luck of the Irish. .....Probably more arrests are in the works if this guy cracks under interrogation.

[Mavideol]

and more to come as it appears Chinese can come in without visa.... the scammers are at the waiting for that day

[Nabby]

The Chinese are completely out of control and are parasitic wherever they go. Any form of news about China/Chinese is invariably BAD NEWS. 

[Andycoops]

No doubt all the other undesirable communist mafia are rubbing their hands at the ridiculously ill thought out free visa policy.

[Deserted]

Do the Chinese do anything else except commit crimes when they come to Thailand?

[DavisH]

This isn't the first Chinese related kidnapping for ransom to happen in Thailand. 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2023/04/21/police-expect-chinese-kidnapping-for-ransom-cases-to-continue/

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by DavisH

[WHansen]

Lucky lady. Best of luck to you.

[Irish star]

This should be posted in every Chinese News Source 

[n00dle]

On 9/15/2023 at 12:44 PM, Seth1a2a said:

Probably more arrests are in the works if this guy cracks under interrogation.

Why?

[sathornlover]

On 9/15/2023 at 3:20 PM, Andycoops said:

No doubt all the other undesirable communist mafia are rubbing their hands at the ridiculously ill thought out free visa policy.

I rather fear that these kind of people can get the so called 5 million elite visa with ease....

[Woof999]

On 9/15/2023 at 11:10 AM, Gecko123 said:

Check out this CCTV footage of what happened after the rear end collision. Pretty bizarre!

 

 

What a surreal video.

 

Moral of the story, drive with increased awareness while transporting your kidnap victim.