Police seek custody of corporal suspected of kidnapping online gambling couple

Police investigators took Pol Corporal Apisit Chasanthia, a unit chief of the Hi-Tech Crime Division, to the Phra Khanong court at 9.20am to seek custody for 12 days pending an investigation into his alleged crime.

On Saturday, the Phra Khanong court had allowed police custody until April 13 of

Apisit’s superior, Pol Major Kom Rodphao, an inspector in the division under the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, to investigate the alleged kidnapping.

The court rejected Kom’s bail application, as he could intimidate witnesses.

Apisit and Kom have been charged with conspiring with 13 other men to kidnap and illegally detain Kanchanaporn Chuankrood and Thawatchai Sroythong and forcing them to pay THB400,000 in cash and a gold amulet worth THB650,000 for debt the couple allegedly owed a gambling web operator.

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40014154