Chinese couple arrested for ransoming ex-husband for B12m

A Chinese couple were arrested for forming a gang who abducted and ransomed two compatriots, including an ex-husband, for about 12 million baht.
Pol Maj Gen Nopasilp Poolsawat, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, on Tuesday identified the suspects as Liu Bomr and Du Yangzhen and said they were among six suspects in the abduction case.
According to the deputy commissioner, the Chinese woman, Du, was a former wife of one abductee. The woman told police that she had informed her new husband about being abused by her ex. In response, her new husband became frustrated and planned to take revenge by robbing him.
The new husband contacted another Chinese man named Tong, who then recruited three Myanmar men to form the robbery team. The gang gathered at a rented house in the Lat Phrao-Wang Hin area in Bangkok to plot the crime.
The woman then called her ex-husband last Saturday and told him to prepare 3.2 million baht in cash, alleging that a client wanted to exchange digital money for the sum.
Fifteen minutes later, the gang of five armed men arrived at Anget Property (Thailand) Co, which is in another rented house on Ratchadaphisek 24 Road in Huai Khwang district, Bangkok. They robbed the man and another Chinese national of the 3.2-million-baht cash and took both victims to Nakhon Nayok province.
There, the gang threatened to kill both victims unless they transferred USDT270,000 (about 9 million baht) to them.
After the additional sum was transferred, the gang returned to Bangkok and released them on Nawamin 100 Road on Sunday.
The gang went to their rented house, where they shared the money. Afterwards, Mr Liu and his wife went to Pattaya and then travelled back to Suvarnabhumi airport in Samut Prakan province.
Mr Liu was apprehended when he checked in for flight ZA679 of Sky Angkor Airlines to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at Suvarnabhumi on Monday night.
The woman was arrested at the rented house in the Lat Phrao-Wang Hin area, where police also found plastic handcuffs and clothing used by kidnappers. Both confessed to the crime.
Pol Maj Gen Nopasilp said that four other suspects escaped to Cambodia through Chanthaburi province.
Police were also investigating the property company of the victims to determine why it offered cryptocurrency exchange services and how it raised funds for the business.
Earlier, Immigration Police Division 2 reported that Mr Liu had a Cedeao passport, also known as an Ecowas passport, a common passport document issued by members of the Economic Community of West African States.
Immigration police identified the victims as Xie Chuanqi and Xie Chuanfa.