'Abducted' businessman to be questioned

[Lite Beer]

'Abducted' businessman to be questioned
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- A Chinese-Cambodian businessman kidnapped last week for a Bt100-million ransom has been released in Cambodia and will return to Thailand to speak to police tomorrow, it has been revealed.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau's chief of investigations, Maj-General Sombat Milintachinda, said yesterday that Chen Ji's relatives had informed police that the businessman - abducted by unknown men near Baiyoke 2 Tower in Bangkok's Pratunam area on Tuesday - was released on Friday evening in Cambodia.

Sombat said Chen wasn't able to return to Thailand right away because he needed to obtain the proper travel documents at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh after being smuggled out of the country via the border province of Sa Kaew. He said the initial police investigation found that the kidnappers comprised at least four or five people, one of whom might know Chen well enough to identify his car and movements.

The kidnappers were professionals based on the well-coordinated abduction, and the black Toyota Fortuner pickup truck used in the abduction carried fake licence plates.

Metropolitan Police Area 1 chief Maj-General Pongpan Wannapak, who presided over a meeting on the case at Phaya Thai Police Station yesterday, said closed-circuit camera footage showed there were at least four kidnappers - a truck driver, two men who bundled him into the vehicle and a motorcyclist.

He said police would compare the images to pictures of people who prey on foreign businessmen that are stored in the criminal database.

An informed source said police would focus on anyone who had a conflict with him or his acquaintances.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Abducted-businessman-to-be-questioned-30247863.html

-- The Nation 2014-11-16

[recycled]

And if during the investigation the police find it was one or more of their own, that's the last anyone hears of it. I could bet London to a brick that is going to be the outcome.

[RustBucket]

Well the border guards must have been in on this. It is nigh on impossible to get a vehicle through the border with fake number plates, and you can hardly walk a kidnapped person through immigration without the alarm being raised.

I would say that this probably smacks of involvement between police and immigration to relive this guy of 100 Ml baht.

[lust]

Does it say that vehicle was the same vehicle to transport him across the border? Does it say that they used a vehicle to cross the border? Does it say they went through immigration?

[Sviss Geez]

And if during the investigation the police find it was one or more of their own, that's the last anyone hears of it. I could bet London to a brick that is going to be the outcome.

Well-informed dumb speculation?

[Sviss Geez]

Well the border guards must have been in on this. It is nigh on impossible to get a vehicle through the border with fake number plates, and you can hardly walk a kidnapped person through immigration without the alarm being raised.

I would say that this probably smacks of involvement between police and immigration to relive this guy of 100 Ml baht.

I would say that this smacks of the vehicle not being involved at the border nor anyone being processed through Immigration. If that were the case the victim would not have to be delayed in Cambodia getting the correct travel documentation would he?

Not only that I would say that your post smacks of Thai-bashing and the lack of the ability to read properly.

[Jim walker]

It’s so safe in Thailand or was that Saudi now you can leave your car keys in the car and wallet on top of the dash and the windows down and you would never need to give it a second thought as all is absolutely safe just waiting for your return.

[jpduggan]

''Toyota Fortuner pickup truck used in the abduction''

What does a Fortuner pick-up look like?

[rickirs]

On the other hand false kidnapping is a novel way to spirit Bt100-million out of the country. A professional police investigation should consider all motives for this kidnapping.