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Importer fleeing tax evasion prison sentence caught on train

A railway police officer talks to an executive of a chemical importing firm, 65, on a sleeping car heading to Chiang Mai on Monday night. He is wanted an an arrest warrant for tax evasion. (Photo: @AyutthayaRailwayPolice Facebook page)

An executive of an importing firm fleeing a court warrant in a 175 million baht tax evasion case has been arrested in a sleeping car of an express train heading to Chiang Mai.

Sujit (whose surname was withheld by police), 65, was travelling on Special Express Train No 9 from Bangkok to Chiang Mai on Monday night.

Railway police arrested him at Ayutthaya railway station, where the train stopped to pick up passengers, Pol Maj Gen Amnat Traipoj, commander of the Railway Police Division, told reporters on Tuesday.

The suspect, an executive of a firm importing chemicals for…

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