One police officer has been fired and two other officers are under investigation for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a Chinese businesswoman, which took place in the middle of the crowded Suvarnabhumi Airport on May 6.
Deputy Tourist Police Pol. Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn said that a senior police sergeant in the Immigration Bureau, who was not identified, was found to have facilitated the woman’s abduction by the members of a criminal gang and that he has been fired and charged for his involvement, Daily News reported.
The victim Jincai Chen, 39, was taken by four men and one woman after arriving at Suvarnabhumi airport at about 9.30pm on May 6 via a flight from Hong Kong, as reported by our sister site Coconuts Hong Kong.
She was released and found safe on the side of a road the night of May 19, police said.
The gang of kidnappers, led by a Chinese man named Wenqu Sun, demanded a ransom of CNY2 million (about THB10 million or US$305,000) from the woman’s husband, a Tanzanian citizen of Korean origin.
The husband reportedly paid the amount first but then contacted police last week after the gang demanded another CNY1 million (about THB5 million or US$156,000).
In a press conference, police said that between May 6 to 18, the gang kept the victim at a hotel in Bangkok before moving her to a rented house in Pattaya, and then to a house on Koh Samet in Rayong province.
She was then blindfolded and brought back to Bangkok, where she was set free unharmed on the side of Bang Na-Trat Road last Saturday night. She then called her relatives who alerted the police.
On Monday, police identified the suspects as a Thai woman named Wansikarn Termthanapat, three Chinese nationals: Wenqu Sun, Meiling Kai, and Dongliang Sun, and one Hong Konger named Song Ming.
The Thai woman has been arrested while the foreign suspects have fled the country.
It was reported that the victim was a former business partner of the gang’s leader Wenqu Sun.
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