Two Thais detained under martial law in missing Japanese teacher case

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Thai female companion of missing Japanese teacher and Thai husband detained under martial law



BANGKOK: -- The Thai female companion of the 79-year-old Japanese teacher Mr Yoshinori Shimata and her taxi driver husband were detained under martial law for questioning after they denied any knowledge of the disappearance of the Japanese teacher since September 21.

Mrs Pornchanok Chaiyapa, 47, and her husband Somchai were arrested by metropolitan police Monday night after the police believed they had knowledge about the disappearance of Mr Yoshinori.

Both were questioned for more than three hours but they remained adamant on knowing nothing.

The missing came to light when the teacher’s son said his father couldn’t be contacted for months and suspected something might go wrong.

Deputy commander of the metropolitan police Pol Maj Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk later decided to send the couple to military authorities for detention under martial law for seven days.

Both were later escorted to the Second Calvary Division of the Royal Guard for detention.

The police believed they had knowledge because the female companion used the ATM card of Mr Yoshinori to withdraw cash from Bangkok Bank’s ATM machines for 14 times amounted to more than 720,000 baht in cash.

Besides the woman had also used the teacher’s mobile phone to call AIA inquiring about life policy of the teacher.

She also had taken the Japanese teacher to a private hospital for check and was advised to admit him at hospital for having priblem with blood vessel in the heart.

However she told doctor that she would admit him at state hospital instead because she had no money.

Police strongly believed the Japanese might have been dead because he had chronic sickness that needed regular check and treatment by doctors.

Police also disclosed earlier Mrs Pornchanok had close connection with another Japanese but he later died after misstepping the stairways and fell to the ground from heart problem.

In that case, she received insurance sum from a firm for several million baht.
But in that case there was no unusual death but heart disease, which was also same as that of the missing teacher.

Police searched five targets yesterday which comprise rented house, condominium room, townhouse and rooms which the missing Japanese teacher used to live with his compsnion. But nothing suspicious was found.

However they collected DNA samples from all five places to check.

The DNA samples will be forwarded to the forensics department for further examination. Police believes that Mrs Pornchanok is involved in the disappearance of the Japanese victim, though more evidences are needed to prove the theory.

Police also drilled a cement ground of one house on suspicion the body of the teacher might be buried but nothing was found after neighbour complained of strong smell of carcass coming out.

Yesterday the son of the missing Japanese teacher Mr Testsuo Shimata, 47, arrived in Thailand in search of his father and to give clues to the police, and offered his DNA to help police investigation.

Accompanied by Japanese embassy staff, he met with Thai police investigators and provided some information to the police.

Mr Tetsuo said he was in last contact with his father via email in March, when his father admitted that he was seeing Mrs Pornchanok, during which his father also gave him the suspect’s contact number.

He said at the beginning of the month, he had called his father, but did not talk to him, as a woman by the name Pen had answered the phone and told him that his father was ill.

He added that he never heard from his father again until he found out that his father had gone missing.

He also said he had met the woman who disguised herself with hat coming to pick up belongings in the rented condomupinium room at Huey Kwang where his father stayed.

He was told his father was sick and would take him to see his father.

The woman was questioned by the police but released on bail and later disappeared.

Meanwhile a third Japanese man emerged identifying himself to be Mr Kamakari and had close relation with Mrs Pornchanok who earlier called herself Pensri.

He claimed to have fallen in love with the Thai woman six years ago and agreed to live with her at a house in Bang Name.

He thrusted her so much that he decided to give all his pension money to her to take care of.

But after having all his money she fled and disappeared.

He wrote to Pornchanok’s mother asking her to return all his money he kept for lifetime so that he could live on.

(Photo : Thai PBS File)

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/thai-female-companion-missing-japanese-teacher-thai-husband-detained-martial-law/


-- Thai PBS 2014-10-21

[clockman]

The danger of being old in Thailand,

[Hardback]

Rather unfortunate typo in the article

"He thrusted her so much that he decided to give all his pension money to her to take care of"

[thequietman]

Thainess ! Anyone?

[Puwa]

"He thrusted her so much that he decided to give all his pension money to her to take care of."

[JOC]

Two of Thailands finest!!

At the same time very scary, that the legal system is totally sidelined. "They were sent to an armycamp"

Kim Jong-un would be proud!!

[JOC]

The danger of being old in Thailand,

The danger of being old in Thailand and believing in the ego-boosting "hansum man"!!

[american12bthai]

this is sad. and it pisses me off that a thai wouldnt bat an eye when taking someone life savings. this is heartless. cruel. and i hope someone... please. make her pay. and im not talking about money.

[SteveFong]

the grip on the people has already begun,

but it is a slow boil

kind of like bkk in daytime

[The stuttering parrot]

Thainess anyone?

Why would you bag all thai people just because a couple of scumbags which can be found in any country commit such a low life act?

And don't worry about being old people of all ages fall for the love con and a lot more other cons besides that one.

[NongKhaiKid]

i am waiting for a Thai official to state the Japanese are happy about the way the investigation has been handled, exemplary professionalism etc.

A spokesman at the Japanese embassy said ' Que Mr. Fawlty ? "

[JohnThailandJohn]

"Deputy commander of the metropolitan police Pol Maj Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk later decided to send the couple to military authorities for detention under martial law for seven days."

How can a police officer decide to hold her under Martial Law? I thought under Martial Law the military was in charge and could set aside certain rights, not the police. This sounds like the police dictating to the military.

I hope with this news gets the attention of a Military leader who sees how troubling this could be and steps in and hands them back to the police for any possibly criminal investigation and detention. This just doesn't fall within the scope of needing to apply Martial Law and should be a non political, non national security criminal case.

Edited October 21, 2014 by JohnThailandJohn

[cgphuket]

Not a country for the naive. When will people learn Thailand is not disney world. It is the 3rd world and while 95% of Thai people are good, 5% are pure evil and those 5% like the soft targets....

[The stuttering parrot]

So you reckon 3.2 million Thais are pure evil and like soft targets?

[Thaddeus]

I think it's a duck.

[TDCNINJA]

"Deputy commander of the metropolitan police Pol Maj Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk later decided to send the couple to military authorities for detention under martial law for seven days."

How can a police officer decide to hold her under Martial Law? I thought under Martial Law the military was in charge and could set aside certain rights, not the police. This sounds like the police dictating to the military.

I hope with this news gets the attention of a Military leader who sees how troubling this could be and steps in and hands them back to the police for any possibly criminal investigation and detention. This just doesn't fall within the scope of needing to apply Martial Law and should be a non political, non national security criminal case.

I won't attempt to debate the merits of whether this is right or wrong.

The way I see this situation is that the police commander sensed that his department was unable to break down Mrs Pornchick, and figured that 7 days in military detention might soften her up. If that doesn't work, rinse and repeat.

Given the "woman's" previous track record, I could care less about her civil rights and I hope she is tortured around the clock with no mercy.

Edited October 21, 2014 by TDCNINJA

[RKASA]

Rather unfortunate typo in the article

"He thrusted her so much that he decided to give all his pension money to her to take care of"

Rather a Freudian slip then a typo maybe.

[SteveFong]

"Deputy commander of the metropolitan police Pol Maj Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk later decided to send the couple to military authorities for detention under martial law for seven days."

How can a police officer decide to hold her under Martial Law? I thought under Martial Law the military was in charge and could set aside certain rights, not the police. This sounds like the police dictating to the military.

I hope with this news gets the attention of a Military leader who sees how troubling this could be and steps in and hands them back to the police for any possibly criminal investigation and detention. This just doesn't fall within the scope of needing to apply Martial Law and should be a non political, non national security criminal case.

I won't attempt to debate the merits of whether this is right or wrong.

The way I see this situation is that the police commander sensed that his department was unable to break down Mrs Pornchick, and figured that 7 days in military detention might soften her up. If that doesn't work, rinse and repeat.

Given the "woman's" previous track record, I could care less about her civil rights and I hope she is tortured around the clock with no mercy.

one good punishment, Oral services to inmates in over a year with the longest serving getting the longest service?

and then, she rinses, and repeats

[Gunna]

So you reckon 3.2 million Thais are pure evil and like soft targets?

I would say about right from my experience - 5 truly evil from the 100 or so I have got to know. A Thai boyfriend of one of them said to me " This is the most evil family I have ever met, they just want money " and he went to work and never returned.

[Commerce]

If there's DNA involved with Thai experts, forget it!

Her "ex-companion", the Thai media writes; Don't they mean ex-husband?

A Thai wouldn't do this, again and again.

[bkkgooner]

She takes out over 700k in cash and then actually calls the life insurance company?

Not exactly the brightest girl in the world is she?

Seems like she has a thing for preying on old men and getting her hands on their life insurance

[MobileContent]

So you reckon 3.2 million Thais are pure evil and like soft targets?

Looking at our village yes 5% surely are evil and those Farangs, Koreans and Singaporeans that got burned are long gone but new supply of foreigners are dropping by monthly and they seem to get older and older.

[bluebluewater]

I thrust everyone I meet . . .

[WhizBang]

So you reckon 3.2 million Thais are pure evil and like soft targets?

I would say that figure is probably a little on the low side.

[umbanda]

Looks like older Japanese men likes younger Thai women with good heart...

Edited October 21, 2014 by umbanda

[OmarZaidMD]

Soooo sad .... where's the body ... closure? She knows . . .

[kamahele]

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So you reckon 3.2 million Thais are pure evil and like soft targets?

I would say about right from my experience - 5 truly evil from the 100 or so I have got to know. A Thai boyfriend of one of them said to me " This is the most evil family I have ever met, they just want money " and he went to work and never returned.

Can this figure also apply to other countries? I think so. I've met a lot of "evil" people from all parts of the world.

[SOTIRIOS]

...what a monster.....

[outre99]

The one thing that i noticed after reading this article is the competent and comprehensive approach the police exhibited during the investigation. Checking all of the relevant residences, interviewing neighbours, even drilling through the concrete floor.

Me thinks the use of the Martial Law is a convenient procedural way for them to hold the suspects so they don't flee.

If anything we should give credit to the police in this case for actually doing their job properly.

[chotthee]

Another Farang dead. More illegal Burmese goats needed.