Interpol arrests couple wanted for fatal Bangkok bombing

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ERAWAN BOMBING
Interpol arrests couple wanted for fatal bombing
THE NATION


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BANGKOK: -- Interpol has arrested Thai and foreign suspects for their alleged role in the Bangkok bombings in August that claimed 20 lives and injured many others, deputy police chief Pol General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said yesterday.

While Srivara declined to reveal the names of the suspects, reliable police sources identified the suspects as Phang Nga native Wanna Suansan and her Turkish husband Emra Davuloglu.

Srivara said the suspects were currently in detention in a foreign country, and the Thai side was working on bringing them back to face legal action.

Arrest warrants for Wanna and Davuloglu were issued soon after the fatal Erawan Shrine blast for allegedly renting an apartment to a prime suspect in the case.

Initially, Wanna told the media in a telephone interview reportedly from Turkey that she had nothing to do with the bombings and would return to testify. However, she did not turn up as promised.

Srivara said the Public Prosecutors Office and the Foreign Ministry were coordinating the return of the suspects with Interpol.

Sources said the arrests were made after Wanna, who is holding a Thai passport, was found to have overstayed her visa and Davuloglu's Turkish passport was found to be fake.

Wanna and another suspect left Thailand on July 1 through Phuket Airport. Further investigation showed that Wanna had gone to Cambodia through the Sa Kaew border checkpoint on May 30 last year, and then to Malaysia through the Sadao border checkpoint in Songkhla province on October 23 in the same year. The arrest warrant accused Wanna of renting a room to the bomb suspects after police found bomb-making materials, including fertilisers, bolts and gunpowder.

She was also charged with having in possession war weapons without permission.

The sources said that checks into Davuloglu's financial records showed that several transfers had been made to his bank accounts from abroad. The first transfer was Bt156,106 in February, Bt157,646 in March, Bt410,000 in April and Bt14,495 in August.

Financial records also showed that a group of seven foreigners, including Chinese and Turkish nationals, had transferred more than Bt1 million to foreigners in Thailand, including Davuloglu. Evidence also showed that this money was used to purchase bomb-making materials and general necessities.

The first bomb at the shrine in the heart of the capital killed 20 people, most of them foreigners, while the second one at Sathorn Pier on the following day caused no injuries.

Under detention for their role in the attack so far are Bilal Mohammed and Mieraili Yusufu, who have been identified as Chinese Uighurs. The two have been formally charged by the Bangkok Military Court on 10 charges and are being detained in a special military prison.

Bilal, who was arrested in the room that he allegedly rented from Wanna, confessed to planting the bomb at the shrine.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Interpol-arrests-couple-wanted-for-fatal-bombing-30274289.html


-- The Nation 2015-12-04

[ukrules]

I wait with interest to find out which country they were arrested in.

[trogers]

My guess is France...

[ukrules]

Interpol don't actually make arrests......so who / what made the arrest ?

Edit : It's Turkey.

[steven100]

Interpol would have done passport checks to see where they had entered and then they would inform local police.

[NongKhaiKid]

Interpol only circulates detail

[NongKhaiKid]

Interpol only circulates details of wanted persons to member countries for action, they're an information clearing house and nothing else.

Police Forces will likely have their own Interpol office which is manned by officers from that force. Interpol doesn't have agents worldwide no matter what the television and Hollywood would have us believe.

[FangFerang]

The article declares the woman and her Turkish husband helped the bombers, and then declares his Turkish passport was fake. Then they go on to declare they are Uighers, and no dots are EVER connected between the Uighers shipped back to China and the bombing a few weeks later.

The official statement "The bombing occurred because we disrupted human trafficking" is a farce, a joke, a lie and a poorly executed byte of misinformation.

The bombing occurred because they sent the Uighers back to China, and the bombing was a vindictive reaction to that decision.

Everyone sees the big, white Uigher elephant in the room, and no amount of attitude adjustment will make it go away.

They need better spin doctors altogether.

[Srikcir]

"Interpol has arrested Thai and foreign suspects"

There is something suspect with this announcement.

Interpol personnel have no arrest or even investigative authority. Interpol doesn't even have law enforcement officers per se.

Interpol is a supranational law enforcement agency that relies on Interpol member nations to make arrests in response to Interpol arrest warrants. It is the arresting nation's law enforcement authorities who only able to detain arrested suspects. Interpol's major function is to act as an information clearinghouse for member nation law enforcement agencies.

Since the announced "arrest" may be suspicious, use of the term "arrests" might be suspicious. Perhaps the couple have been taken in protective custody, detained only for questioning, or placed under a temorary house arrest. People arrested by a nation in response to an Interpol Red Alert are entitled to the constitutional protections of that nation. Their transfer to Thailand would also have to comply with any extradition treaty with Thailand.

The Prayut regime has been known to create extravagent headlines seemingly to bolster its law and order image, only later to retract or correct the public's responding "misunderstanding." No doubt there will be more clarifications to this story.

[bangkapi]

Case closed.

[londonthai]

interpol has nothing to do with overstaying visa or fake passport/identity. It's the responsibility of the local immigration police.

turkey was harbouring those 2 suspected terrorists for over 3 months. They have known, that she didn't have a valid visa, her visa didn't finish just yesterday but sometimes ago. His false identity was known from the beginning, at least since the middle of august. Their address was known to police, even journalists were able to trace her and take interviews.

it's only now the turkish government decided to act under pressure from eu (mainly france), nato, russia and usa and accused of helping terrorists, sponsoring them. By giving away those suspects turks are trying to clear their name.

those 2 arrested, as well as the remaining 15 for whom thai put arrest warrants for terrorism, are not all terrorists, but people smugglers.

Wanna Suansan, the wife, was just earning money from her flat in bkk, as a safehouse for illegal immigrants. As to bank transfers to her husbands accounts - terrorists to operate with cash, which is difficult to trace and detect

there is a big chance, that those 2 men arrested in bangkok for erewan, are just chinese muslims, who were on it's way to turkey. They were tortured into confession. So the real perpetrators are still on the run. Probably in turkey, or even syria by now.

[mike324]

I'm sure "Interpol arrest" is just a loosely used term to indicate suspects being arrested in a foreign country with the help of local police. Folks here need to chill out with being so picky with words.