Turkish Suspect Denies Involvement in Erawan Bomb Attack

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Turkish Suspect Denies Involvement in Erawan Bomb Attack


Soldiers escort Adem Karadag, aka Mohammed Bilaturk, to Bangkok Metropolitan Police headquarters on 4 Sept.

BANGKOK — The first man arrested on suspicion of involvement in last month’s bombing of the Erawan Shrine insists he had nothing to do with the attack and only arrived in Thailand days before he was taken into custody in a raid.

Turkish national Adem Karadag, also known as Mohammed Bilaturk, said through his lawyer that upon arriving in Thailand on 24 Aug., the broker paid to smuggle him from Turkey ordered him to remain inside an apartment building where security forces discovered him among fake Turkish passports and bomb-making materials on 29 Aug.

“He insisted that he had nothing to do with the materials found at Poon Anan Apartment,” his lawyer Chuchart Kanpai said. “The news that the materials at the room belonged to him may have been because of miscommunication.”

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-- Khaosod English 2015-09-14

[Thai at Heart]

Ooooops

[pinkpanther99]

This is the guy the police paid themselves the 3 million Baht reward on.

What's the Thai for 'refund'?

[AGareth2]

so will they give the reward money back?

[z42]

Shades of koh tao here. Hard to tell at this point who's lying but the rtp certainly have form in that department.

And with this guy not having confirmed links it must be asked why would cops be getting a 3 million bounty paid out.

Embarrassing

[FritsSikkink]

he wanted to be a driver in Malaysia, what a load of BS

[phoenixdoglover]

There are only 2 probable explanations given the the circumstances of his arrest:

1) He is an idiot for sticking around and staying at an apartment full of evidence; and thus not likely to have had a crucial role in the bombing

or

2) He wasn't involved except for being there in the same set of rooms

Suspect #1 is a small fish.

Suspect #2, the border jumper, is a different matter.

[FredNL]

I refer to my first post about the arrest...

I said: Scapegoat !

[Reigntax]

I refer to my first post about the arrest...

I said: Scapegoat !

And the real bombers are escapedgoats!

[stickylies]

Oh well... Thailand. Bombing. Rtp. Yawn...

[KhunG]

There are only 2 probable explanations given the the circumstances of his arrest:

1) He is an idiot for sticking around and staying at an apartment full of evidence; and thus not likely to have had a crucial role in the bombing

or

2) He wasn't involved except for being there in the same set of rooms

Suspect #1 is a small fish.

Suspect #2, the border jumper, is a different matter.

Or the most likely:

3) He was eyeball deep in the plot, got caught with the evidence, and is trying to brazenly lie his way out of it.

[zaphod reborn]

He probably is telling the truth, except he should have known what was going on. I always thought this guy was just a trafficked Uighur, who happened to be housed at the ISIL-provided apartments in Nong Chok. There were bomb-making materials there, he could have eventually been recruited by ISIL to participate in the terror plot against Bangkok, but there's no evidence of that. He most likely is just a remnant of the ISIL militant smuggling operation, and not an operative. Still, he should be charged accordingly and given a stiff sentence.

[kiwikeith]

Smuggled from turkey to a room where the bomb was made, what a load of rubbish give him the death penalty.

[soalbundy]

why would he want to be smuggled from Turkey ? He is a Turkish national and so would have a valid passport, something wrong here

[petedk]

I refer to my first post about the arrest...

I said: Scapegoat !

I wrote in a previous topic "

o he was interrogated by the police in the absence of a lawyer?

I guess as soon as he gets a lawyer he will retract the confession. Sounds familiar to me.

I don't know if he is a scapegoat or it is just standard practice of lawyers. I am inclined to believe the latter.

If it turns out he is a scapegoat then the RTP will really be a laughing stock of the world.

[Oziex1]

Bomb making materials on display in a room days after the bombing, I'm not buying it.

Still no reason why, no one claiming responsibility?

[Artisi]

This is the guy the police paid themselves the 3 million Baht reward on.

What's the Thai for 'refund'?

The Thai for refund is -mai bpen rai

[Barin]

Ooooops

Looking at his face I have always had a feeling that probably this guy is not responsible for the recent Bangkok bombing.

It looks as if he is innocent.

There is an international ring of human traffickers in Thailand, now some refugees from Iraq and Syria want to relocate to other countries including Thailand but Thailand will not accept them officially.

Probably he is one of such refugees...

[Barin]

he wanted to be a driver in Malaysia, what a load of BS

Why?

[Srikcir]

The police according to the news reports only said that he was in the same room as bombmaking materials. But he was not apprehended in the apartment! Therefore, the police made a leap of faith to declare that because Mohammed had been in the apartment, he was involved in the bomb conspiracy.

And after many misstatements about what exactly the bombmaking materials were, recent news said the bomb was essentially made from common household materials. It was not like there were bomb casings, sticks of TNT or bricks of C4 in plain sight with a sign on the table saying' "Warning-Bombmaking area."

So there are three more possible scenarios for Mohammed's presence in the apartment: (4) he didn't associate what he saw as bombmaking materials, (5) there were no bombmaking materials in plain sight or even in the apartment during his stay, and (6) he was passing through Thailand illegally and could care less about someone making bombs.

This is why an accused needs immediate legal representation - to counter ambitious police who might abuse their authority to prosecute and earn the praise of their superiors. Or in this case to garner cash rewards!

[Artisi]

Was he smuggled in or did he enter thru' immigration with a real or with a dodgy passport, if thu' immigration can he produce a stamped passport, or has that now been side-tracked and forgotten / destroyed. We like to run the BIB down for incompetence - but one thing they are experts at is fitting-up a suspect.

[inzman]

Remember some of the "evidence" was a picture of a bomb vest from the ata in America. But when they were caught out, they said it was a mistake. Also, forced confessions under the threat of beatings and death are usually wrong. But that is how they get 100% of confessions here. So they are essentially worthless. What stooges.

[Barin]

Smuggled from turkey to a room where the bomb was made, what a load of rubbish give him the death penalty.

I strongly disagree. There is no evidence he has anything to do with the bombing.

The fact that there was a literature about bomb making in this apartment doesn't prove that this particular guy has anything to do with this literature.

The apartment was occupied by many other people being trafficked to Thailand and Malaysia.

[Barin]

why would he want to be smuggled from Turkey ? He is a Turkish national and so would have a valid passport, something wrong here

I believe he is not a Turkish national.

Even the Turkish embassy in Thailand has the same opinion.

He may be one of the refugees from Syria or Iraq.

In Turkey they can buy a Turkish passport for US$ 600.-

[FredNL]

I now refer to my second post about the arrest...

I said: "Guilty until proven innocent!"

[fred Kubasa]

He will probably change his mind after an " Attitude Adjustment " class !

Most "alleged" turn into " confessed", shortly after more intense

questioning !

[razer]

No problem! He is a refugee? Migrant? ... send him to Germany.

[Rykbanlor]

One takes every new announcement or press release with a grain of salt, but given the RTP stellar track record in coercive confession techniques and manipulating evidence, information and their own press releases to suit their needs, this latest twist is not too hard to get behind.

[mancub]

What a "bugger's muddle" eh ?

[springheeled jack]

another setback for rtp their main suspect now denies he had anything to do with the bombing what next and they gave themselves 3million baht for capturing him ?