Cambodian wanted for contract killing of Cambodian-French MP

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The Thai gunman, Ekkaluck. | Photo via PPTV HD

 

By Petch Petpailin

 

Thai police issued an arrest warrant for a Cambodian man in connection with the contract killing of a former Cambodian-French opposition Member of Parliament in Bangkok.

 

Police arrested the Thai gunman, Ekkaluck “Em” Parenoi, in Cambodia’s Prey Veng province on January 8 and brought him back to Thailand for questioning. Ekkaluck admitted to being hired to kill the former MP, 73 year old Lim Kimya.

 

Recently, Thai police officers arrested 47 year old Chakit Buaplee in the central province of Chanthaburi for driving Ekkaluck from Thailand to Cambodia. He claimed that he did not know what Ekkaluck had done when he agreed to take him to the border area of the two countries.

 

Ekkaluck refused to disclose the identity of the person who hired him, referring to this individual only as his “benefactor.” According to Ekkaluck, he was promised 60,000 baht for the job, with 30,000 baht paid to him in advance.

 

Sam Rainsy, a former leader of the Cambodian opposition party, later took to social media to accuse former army general and current President of the Senate, Hun Sen, of masterminding Lim’s murder. Rainsy also implicated the Cambodian man in Thailand, whom Ekkaluck referred to as his supporter.

 

Police investigations into Ekkaluck’s mobile phone revealed conversations with the Cambodian man, Ly Ratanakraksmey, who also has a Thai alias, Somwang Bamrungkij.

 

 

Ly operates a business dealing with the importation of labour in Thailand and Malaysia. He reportedly has close connections with Thai officials, including those in the police force and the Ministry of Labour. Efforts by PPTV HD to contact Ly for an interview were unsuccessful, as all his communication channels were inactive.

 

Officers from Chana Songkhram Police Station gathered sufficient evidence to implicate Ly in Lim’s assassination. Subsequently, an arrest warrant was issued against him for violating several laws, including:

 

• Section 84 of the Criminal Law: causing another person to commit an offence through employment, compulsion, threat, hire, favour, or instigation. The punishment is equivalent to that of the person who committed the crime. If convicted, Ly faces the death penalty, as would Ekkaluck according to Section 289 of the Criminal Law: murder committed with premeditation.
• Section 376 of the Criminal Law: firing a gun in a public place without reasonable cause. Penalties include imprisonment for up to 10 days, a fine of up to 5,000 baht, or both.
• Section 8 of the Act on Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, Fireworks, and Imitation Firearms: carrying a firearm in a public place without proper permission or necessity. Penalties include imprisonment for up to five years, a fine of up to 10,000 baht, or both.

 

Police are also pursuing another suspect in the assassination, Kimsrin Pich, who remains at large. According to reports from Matichon, Kimsrin is the younger brother of Sros Pich, a politician aligned with the Cambodian government, and also works as a pro-government news reporter.

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2025-01-15

 

 

[Tropicalevo]

They have the shooter. 

They have identified the middle man. (AKA the fall guy.) 

Just need to identify the guy that ordered it all. 

 

Or as Meatloaf sang it.........