Thread: Bent cop nabbed

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Bent cop nabbed

By The Nation
NAKHON PHANOM
Published on February 20, 2011

A policeman was arrested early yesterday morning for allegedly kidnapping a Laotian businessman, his wife and four-year-old daughter for a Bt5-million ransom. Arrest warrants will soon be issued for five accomplices, who shot their way out to escape arrest.

Police Senior Sgt-Major Apinan Songbundit, from the Consumer Protection Command, was arrested in a car with fake licence plates, a .38 pistol and six bullets. He claimed he was assisting colleagues in a drug arrest and had no knowledge about the alleged kidnapping. The victim's side insisted the family wasn't involved in drug dealing. In the police complaint, the family's relatives said the Laotians were taken by a group of men who claimed to be drug police at That Phanom municipal border pass. The relatives were contacted to pay Bt5-million in ransom or the whole family would be killed. After the gang got Bt100,000 cash, a Bt300,000 diamond ring and four gold ornaments from the victims, and another Bt300,000 cash from relatives in Ubon Ratchathani, the wife was released to gather more money from relatives in Laos.