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New arrest in immigration abduction-ransom case

Surachai Patanachaicharoen, 58, makes a phone call as Bangkok police arrest him at the car park of the Big C store in Wang Thonglang district on Monday night. (Photo supplied)

Police have arrested a Thai man as an accessory in the alleged abduction and crypto-ransom by immigration police officers of a Chinese man and his Thai interpreter.

Surachai Patanachaicharoen, 58, was taken into custody in the parking lot of the Big C store in Wang Thonglang district about 7pm on Monday.

According to Pol Col Sakaya Saengwan, deputy commander of Metropolitan Police division 1, the suspect confessed to having pointed out the victims to the five accused immigration policemen before they were abducted in Din Daeng district.

He said the Thai…

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