Two former US Marines were among four people — including a high-ranking police official — who have been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly kidnapping a Taiwanese businessman in a restaurant for a ransom over a PPE deal gone bad.
Ex-Marines Jeremy Hughes Manchester, 41, and Louis William Ziskin, 52, the CEO and founder of an on-demand live video platform, were busted along with Ekbodin Prasitnarit and Thai police Lt. Col. Kristsnaporn Thapthawee, the Thai Examiner reported.
Wen Yu Chung, 60, the Taiwanese businessman, was captured on surveillance footage from March 28 being put in a headlock and being dragged out of the L’Oliva restaurant in Thong Lor, The Thaiger reported.
Thapthawee was seen in the video supervising the abduction in connection with the $2.95 million ransom plot over the purchase of nitrile gloves, according to the local reports.
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