A Thai taxi driver took a two-hour detour to steal a luxury watch worth 1.1 million baht from a Japanese passenger in the Thonglor neighbourhood of Bangkok.
The Japanese victim filed a complaint at Thonglor Police Station on December 19 that he lost his watch, an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore model, valued at 1.1 million baht, in a taxi on December 17. He believed that the taxi driver stole it because the driver suspiciously took two hours for only a one-kilometre journey.
The foreign victim explained that he took a taxi from a restaurant in Soi Thonglor 13 to his condominium at around 12.30pm on December 17. The taxi took a detour for only one kilometre and arrived at his condominium at 5pm. The taxi may have taken advantage of him falling asleep.
Police checked a CCTV camera in front of the restaurant and discovered that the…
