Brian McDonald
One of Thailand’s most wanted fugitives will be escorted home on a Thai air force plane after being arrested on the Indonesian resort island of Bali following months on the run in connection with several murders and drug trafficking charges in his homeland , officials said Monday.
Chaowalit Thongduang escaped detention in Thailand while being treated in hospital. When he was detained on Thursday, he was using a fake Indonesian national identity card, which he received shortly after arriving in Indonesia’s far-northern province of Aceh in December following a 17-hour speedboat journey from India, he said. Wahyu Widada, head of the Criminal Department of the Indonesian National Police. Investigation Department.
“The fugitive who was arrested is one of the most wanted fugitives by Thai authorities because (he) committed many crimes before eventually fleeing to Indonesia to hide,” Widada said.
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Chaowalit – also known by the nickname “Pang Na Node” – was arrested in a raid on his apartment in Bali’s Badung regency. Authorities seized four cell phones from him along with several false identity documents.
“We are still investigating local residents who helped spread Chaowalit’s fake identity,” Widada said.
Phanurat Lukboon, secretary-general of Thailand’s narcotics control board, said police seized several pieces of evidence, including a fake identity card and a birth certificate under Sulaiman’s name, which was allegedly used by Chaowalit, and a book of Indonesian bank accounts.
“When Chaowalit arrives here, there must be someone who helped him enter Indonesia. Now we are investigating to find out who is the mastermind behind all this,” said Phanurat.
Thai Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong, who traveled to Indonesia to meet Chaowalit, said he will be transported on a military plane on Tuesday to Thailand, where he is wanted for murder or attempted murder of police officers and others and for drug trafficking.
Tawee said Chaowalit praised authorities for being able to track him down after he fled across several countries.
In December last year, the Bangkok Post reported that he had been sentenced in absentia to life in prison in an attempted murder case dating back to 2019.
Hundreds of police officers were mobilized to recapture him, in an operation that reportedly cost around 10 million baht ($271,816).
Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said he was confident that the legal system that arrested Chaowalit could bring him to justice.
Indonesia and Thailand signed an extradition agreement in 1978.
AFP contributed to this report.
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