2 excise officers arrested in 300,000 baht ransom kidnapping case

Two excise officers and one of their friends were arrested yesterday after they kidnapped a phone shop worker and held her to a 300,000 baht ransom in the central province of Samut Prakarn.

A Chinese man, Wu Yiwen, filed a complaint at Mueang Samut Prakarn Police Station yesterday at 3.30pm.

The 31 year old said the kidnapping incident happened at his phone shop in Soi U-Thong in the central province of Samut Prakarn yesterday afternoon. His Burmese employee, a 21 year old woman called Monthira Jaiprom, was apprehended by about six people who claimed to be officers from the Excise Department.

The group shoved Monthira in the car, drove to the Samut Prakarn Provincial Excise Office and parked up. They did not take her inside or go inside themselves. Then, they asked Monthira to call Yiwen.

Through the kidnapped girl, the group told Yiwen that his phone shop was selling illegal…