Din Daeng Police Station, Arresting one off-duty police officer in the case of abducting and extorting money from 5 Chinese people. He was questioned at the Din Daeng Police Station. Today () at 1:45 p.m., the Metropolitan Police Investigation Team and Din Daeng Police Station detained Mr. Atthawut or Mr. Boss, a former police officer with the rank of Police Sergeant, who recently held the position of Commander of the Investigation Division at Khan Na Yao Police Station. Was released from government service last year Accused under arrest warrant for conspiracy to extort money Together they show themselves as officials and act as officials. Not being an official with authority, conspiring to restrain or imprison others, or in any way deprive others of their freedom in the body In the case of conspiring to kidnap 5 Chinese people from a hotel in Soi Pracha Songkhro 2 and extort 2.5 million baht to conduct an investigation at the investigation room at Din Daeng Police Station. While Mr. Boss gave a short inte rview to the media, he confirmed that he had nothing to do with the incident. did not join the gang that extorted money from Chinese businessmen Didn't know the injured Chinese businessman. And more importantly, he was not at the scene. Reporters tried to ask: And on the day of the incident, Mr. Boss Where have you been? Mr. Boss replied only that Please give evidence in court only. The circumstances of this case The three suspects broke into a room where five Chinese people lived, posing as police officers. came to control the injured person and the group Claims that the five Chinese people committed illegal acts. Must be taken to the police station for legal action. Then, according to the CCTV footage, it can be seen that at 8:42 p.m. on April 25, a young man locked the arms of two injured men and tried to take them to a car in front that was waiting, and another man brought another victim. Two people got into a car parked behind. before driving away from the scene But they drove the victim to an unknown l ocation. Along the way, the perpetrators persuaded the victim to agree to pay money in exchange for not being prosecuted. The victim feared that he would be arrested so he contacted his Chinese friends in Cambodia. Transfer money into a digital wallet account as desired by the perpetrators. It is about 2.5 million baht in Thai money when the money has been paid. The perpetrators then released the victims from the area. Mr. Boss is one of the three suspects in the arrest warrant. According to his circumstances, Mr. Boss did not travel to the hotel. Therefore, there was no picture of Mr. Boss at the hotel, but the investigation found that The group responsible for detaining the five Chinese nationals went to meet Mr. Boss before proceeding to extort 2.5 million baht. Meanwhile, news reports said that at 5:00 p.m. today, the investigative team solved the case, including Din Daeng Police Station, Metropolitan Investigation 1, and Metropolitan Investigation. There will be a meeting to follow up on the proceeding s again. The meeting was attended by high-ranking commanders of the Metropolitan Police Bureau. and press conference again. Source: Thai News Agency