Stolen diamond in suspect's tummy: police

[MaxLee]

I hope they don't dare to sell that piece of used up excrement Bull********* made in China....

[steven100]

it all sounds pretty Yukki and smelly to me ....

[joboss]

Can't wait for the point photo on this one should be classic

Will the re-enactment be filmed?

[Thai at Heart]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

[LannaGuy]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

didn't the hospital X.Ray cover that?

[PaPiPuPePo]

If she (of course the guy got the girl to swallow it) didn't wrap it or coat it with something, depending on the cut of the diamond it could cut an incision in her intestine which could be fatal (peritonitis).

[Jim walker]

Thai police are specialists at this anything that turns out to be an arse they are involved in or they are the cause of, up to their neck in sh*t as usual.

[Thai at Heart]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

didn't the hospital X.Ray cover that?

You reckon that for a 10mn diamond you can't get a radiographer to find a smudge on a film?

[dabhand]

Looks like they couldn't wait for nature to take its course.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34239036

Just hope that the real one doesn't get switched again

[bendejo]

The removal could very well have saved her life. The sharp edges of the gem could have made its own series of holes to travel through.

That part of that saved life will be spent behind bars is another story. My guess is she wouldn't have received a big percentage of the payoff.

Anyone remember a movie from the 1960s called "Gambit" with Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine?

[Basil B]

The removal could very well have saved her life. The sharp edges of the gem could have made its own series of holes to travel through.

That part of that saved life will be spent behind bars is another story. My guess is she wouldn't have received a big percentage of the payoff.

Anyone remember a movie from the 1960s called "Gambit" with Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine?

So the Chinese lass is a bimbo too...

[Jonathan Fairfield]

'Stolen' diamond surgically removed in Bangkok

A Chinese woman suspected of stealing a $300,000 (£195,000) diamond in the Thai capital, Bangkok, has had the jewel surgically removed from her intestines.

She is thought to have swallowed it in order to smuggle it out of the country.

The woman is believed to have stolen the six-carat diamond from a jewellery fair on Thursday by swapping it for a fake gemstone.

However, she was caught on security cameras at the fair and later arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.

A man travelling with her was also arrested.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34239036

-- BBC 2015-09-14

[webfact]

Colonoscope helps Thai police recover stolen 6-carat diamond

BANGKOK (AP) — The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive system.

The bad news: It was a 10 million baht ($278,000) diamond the woman was accused of stealing from a jewelry fair, adding a piece of rock-hard evidence to the case against her.

Police Col. Mana Tienmaungpak said Sunday that authorities got to the bottom of the theft when a doctor wielding a colonoscope and the medical equivalent of pliers pulled the 6-carat gemstone from the large intestine of the woman alleged to have filched it, after nature and laxatives failed to get it out.

The woman, identified as 39-year-old Jiang Xulian, and a Chinese man were arrested Thursday night at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on their way out of Thailand on the basis of surveillance video from the fair just outside Bangkok, where earlier that day the duo allegedly switched a fake stone for the real one after asking to inspect it. The dealer at the booth selling the diamond also identified the two.

The suspects initially denied involvement, but X-rays showed a diamond-like object in the woman's intestine, and police said she then confessed.

If convicted, the two face up to three years in prison, according to police.

Mana, the chief investigator for the case, said the woman agreed to Sunday's delicate operation after being told that the gemstone risked injuring her. The diamond's owner identified the stone after it was removed.

Hiding gems in the digestive system is a rare but not unknown ploy. The method is more commonly used by drug smugglers, who swallow condoms filled with cocaine or other illicit substances to get them past customs checks.

In 2012, police in South Africa arrested a 25-year-old man who they said swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country. The diamonds were estimated to be worth about $2.3 million, and were discovered by a body scan as the man was waiting to go through security at the international airport near Johannesburg prior to taking a flight to Dubai.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-09-14

[Stocky]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

didn't the hospital X.Ray cover that?

You reckon that for a 10mn diamond you can't get a radiographer to find a smudge on a film?

Diamonds fluoresce a chalky blue under X-rays.

[noitom]

Astounding that a person would authorize Thais to do a surgical invasion and removal without waiting for nature's bowel movement.

[northernphil]

....................authorities got to the bottom of it . Gr8 way to start my day.

[pumpuy]

Diamonds are a girls best friend ...no matter where ..?

Colonoscope helps Thai police recover stolen 6-carat diamond

BANGKOK (AP) — The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive system.

The bad news: It was a 10 million baht ($278,000) diamond the woman was accused of stealing from a jewelry fair, adding a piece of rock-hard evidence to the case against her.

Police Col. Mana Tienmaungpak said Sunday that authorities got to the bottom of the theft when a doctor wielding a colonoscope and the medical equivalent of pliers pulled the 6-carat gemstone from the large intestine of the woman alleged to have filched it, after nature and laxatives failed to get it out.

The woman, identified as 39-year-old Jiang Xulian, and a Chinese man were arrested Thursday night at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on their way out of Thailand on the basis of surveillance video from the fair just outside Bangkok, where earlier that day the duo allegedly switched a fake stone for the real one after asking to inspect it. The dealer at the booth selling the diamond also identified the two.

The suspects initially denied involvement, but X-rays showed a diamond-like object in the woman's intestine, and police said she then confessed.

If convicted, the two face up to three years in prison, according to police.

Mana, the chief investigator for the case, said the woman agreed to Sunday's delicate operation after being told that the gemstone risked injuring her. The diamond's owner identified the stone after it was removed.

Hiding gems in the digestive system is a rare but not unknown ploy. The method is more commonly used by drug smugglers, who swallow condoms filled with cocaine or other illicit substances to get them past customs checks.

In 2012, police in South Africa arrested a 25-year-old man who they said swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country. The diamonds were estimated to be worth about $2.3 million, and were discovered by a body scan as the man was waiting to go through security at the international airport near Johannesburg prior to taking a flight to Dubai.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-09-14

[LannaGuy]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

didn't the hospital X.Ray cover that?

You reckon that for a 10mn diamond you can't get a radiographer to find a smudge on a film?

my post explains that the X.Ray FOUND the diamond

[webfact]

Stolen diamond pulled out from Chinese tourist’s intestine colon

BANGKOK: -- Doctors at the Police General Hospital have successfully retrieved a 6-carat diamond worth 10 million baht which a Chinese female tourist stole from an exhibition booth at the Bangkok Diamond and Jewellery Fair and swallowed it before escaping last week.

The tourist, Mrs Jiang Xulian, 39, were stopped at Suvarnabhumi airport last Friday, along with her accomplice Mr Hae Ying, 34, after immigration police were alerted of the theft by Nonthaburi police after the owner of the exhibition booth at the fair held in Muangthong Thanee reported that her 10- million baht diamond was stolen and she suspected that a Chinese couple might steal it as they asked to see it and later returned it with fake diamond.

The couple earlier denied stealing the diamond, but after they were taken for X-rays, the diamond was discovered in the stomach of the woman.

Police later gave her purgative medicine but were unsuccessful to drain the diamond out from her digestive system because she was so stressed after being arrested and detained.

Finally she was sent to the Police General Hospital yesterday where doctors successfully used medical pincer to pull the diamond out from her intestine colon.

She admitted she was very uncomfortable when the diamond was in her stomach and after she could no linger tolerate the internal pain she agreed to allow doctors to pull it out with pincer.

Police said they would allow the suspect to remain in hospital for full recovery yesterday before escorting her to Nonthaburi provincial court to seek permission for extended detention.

Both Jiang Xulian and Hae Ying were arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport last Friday while trying to board a flight back home.

Earlier they denied the theft charge claiming that they were just tourists and were about to travel back home in China.

But after they were taken for X-rays, the diamond was shown in the digestive system of Jiang Xulian.

Earlier tourism police chief Police Maj Gen Suphapol Arunsit said the theft was suspected to be conducted by the well planned gang comprising more than two persons.

The gang was believed to commit the crime in many countries before, he added.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/stolen-diamond-pulled-out-from-chinese-tourists-intestine-colon


-- Thai PBS 2015-09-14

[Srikcir]

Will there be a re-enactment of the swallowing and extraction by the accused?

[Soutpeel]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

didn't the hospital X.Ray cover that?

You reckon that for a 10mn diamond you can't get a radiographer to find a smudge on a film?

Wouldn't need to look for a smudge on a film as diamonds fluoresce under x-ray and would be lit up like a light bulb on an x-ray film, go and research the high speed full body x-ray machines used in hospitals, and go and see who developed this technology ? - it was De Beers and what is De beers famous for ?

[Mot Dang]

Surgically removed ? Surgery usually means invasive, cutting through tissue. Apart from the probable blue jokes, colonoscope examinations are not invasive.

[Soutpeel]

Surgically removed ? Surgery usually means invasive, cutting through tissue. Apart from the probable blue jokes, colonoscope examinations are not invasive.

They will not cut anything unless it gets stuck, the only medical intervention will be a jail cell, laxatives and a bucket

[coulson]

Looks like she bit off more than she could poo....

Sorry in advance!

[Berkshire]

Of course, it could be all a scam, the original was always a fake and this poor tourist is being force fed laxatives knowing there is no diamond in her intestine.

didn't the hospital X.Ray cover that?

You reckon that for a 10mn diamond you can't get a radiographer to find a smudge on a film?

It appears you are wrong....again.

[cookee68]

Colonoscope helps Thai police recover stolen 6-carat diamond

BANGKOK (AP) — The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive system.

The bad news: It was a 10 million baht ($278,000) diamond the woman was accused of stealing from a jewelry fair, adding a piece of rock-hard evidence to the case against her.

Police Col. Mana Tienmaungpak said Sunday that authorities got to the bottom of the theft when a doctor wielding a colonoscope and the medical equivalent of pliers pulled the 6-carat gemstone from the large intestine of the woman alleged to have filched it, after nature and laxatives failed to get it out.

The woman, identified as 39-year-old Jiang Xulian, and a Chinese man were arrested Thursday night at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on their way out of Thailand on the basis of surveillance video from the fair just outside Bangkok, where earlier that day the duo allegedly switched a fake stone for the real one after asking to inspect it. The dealer at the booth selling the diamond also identified the two.

The suspects initially denied involvement, but X-rays showed a diamond-like object in the woman's intestine, and police said she then confessed.

If convicted, the two face up to three years in prison, according to police.

Mana, the chief investigator for the case, said the woman agreed to Sunday's delicate operation after being told that the gemstone risked injuring her. The diamond's owner identified the stone after it was removed.

Hiding gems in the digestive system is a rare but not unknown ploy. The method is more commonly used by drug smugglers, who swallow condoms filled with cocaine or other illicit substances to get them past customs checks.

In 2012, police in South Africa arrested a 25-year-old man who they said swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country. The diamonds were estimated to be worth about $2.3 million, and were discovered by a body scan as the man was waiting to go through security at the international airport near Johannesburg prior to taking a flight to Dubai.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-09-14

i knew of many a women who used to swallow stuff in a condom,

[ozyjon]

Will it ping or will it pong!

[maidee]

was it by any chance the missing blue diamond

[PaPiPuPePo]

A bit OT but referring to the article above how could an airport body-scanner (in S. Africa) find diamonds INSIDE someone? They're not x-ray machines, supposedly just a fraction of the radiation on the surface level of bodies to check for contraband etc being secreted under clothing. Or so we're told at least.....

[DefaultName]

So, a rock the size of a peanut wouldn't pass naturally? The woman must have the a## h### of a gnat.