Chitchat Sinkie Kidnapped And Tortured By Another Sinkie In Bangkok! Ransom Paid In Bitcoin! Guess Their Races!

[JohnTan]

BANGKOK - A Singaporean man was kidnapped by a fellow Singaporean in Thailand last week and released after transferring bitcoins worth some 1.4 million baht (S$62,450) to the captor, the police told The Straits Times on Monday (Jan 13).

The kidnapper has been arrested and most of the loot recovered.

Police said Mr Mark Cheng Jin Quan, 32, had taken a taxi with Lee Wei Kim, 31, after both arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport just outside Bangkok on Jan 9. Mr Cheng told the police they had not known each other for long.

Mr Cheng is the co-founder of Avelife, a non-governmental organisation which focuses on social enterprise and the environment. He was the first Singaporean to win the Queen’s Young Leaders Award from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 2016.

According to Mr Cheng's police testimony, after about an hour's ride, the taxi stopped at a petrol station on Suwintawong Road in Chachoengsao province where a black Ford Ranger pickup was parked. The vehicle, which Mr Cheng believed was owned by a Thai actor he knew, was waiting for them.

At the petrol station, Mr Cheng said he was taken hostage, a hood put over his head and driven to Kabin Buri district in the central province of Prachin Buri, some 135km east of Bangkok.

The police did not elaborate but one local news website, Khaosod, said a driver was waiting at the petrol station and Mr Cheng was whisked away in the Ford pickup.

Another news website, Thairath, said the owner of the pickup has been identified by police as 24-year-old Thai actor, Chano Pemberger, who would be summoned for questioning by the police.

Mr Cheng said he was beaten before he transferred the bitcoins to Lee.

A day after his kidnap, on Jan 10, Mr Cheng was dropped off in Ongkharak district in Nakhon Nayok province. A passing driver gave him a ride to a nearby police station, said Police Colonel Chat Narong, chief of Ongkarak police.

"Bruises on many parts of his body and his face could be clearly seen when he walked in," the police chief said.

A coordinated police manhunt was launched and Lee was arrested on Sunday in a hotel in Bangkok.

He was charged with several offences including robbery, detention of others, physical assault and illegal possession of firearms which could lead to a life sentence, said Police Major General Chakrit Sawasdee, Chachoengsao's police chief.

Lee confessed to all the charges. Thai police managed to retrieve 1.2 million baht from him and returned the amount to Mr Cheng, said Pol Maj Gen Chakrit.

The police said Mr Cheng remains in Thailand and is expected to testify at Lee's trial.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/s...by-fellow-singaporean-ransom-paid-in-bitcoins

 

[glockman]

Bloody strawberry generation sinkies, don't even know how to plan a crime properly!

 

[JohnTan]

Was it @Froggy who got himself kidnapped and tortured in exchange for bitcoin?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Was it @Froggy who got himself kidnapped and tortured in exchange for bitcoin?

Froggy only got screws no bitcoins.
In any case if it was him then his maid cum bodyguard would have came to his rescue and shot dead all the bad guys with her Beretta PX4 Storm Compact 9mm

 

[glockman]

Was it @Froggy who got himself kidnapped and tortured in exchange for bitcoin?

Froggy only got screws no bitcoins.
In any case if it was him then his maid cum bodyguard would have came to his rescue and shot dead all the bad guys with her Beretta PX4 Storm Compact 9mm

Please lah, these are 30-something yr old strawberry gen imbeciles. I believe froggy is older and wiser than that.

 

[laksaboy]

This is why I don't like sharing a taxi with strangers.

Grab is as retarded as AirBnB, but the millennials believe the world out there has plenty of strangers eager to befriend you... 四海一家, kumbaya etc.

 

[krafty]

This is why I don't like sharing a taxi with strangers.

Grab is as retarded as AirBnB, but the millennials believe the world out there has plenty of strangers eager to befriend you... 四海一家, kumbaya etc.

for a woman, it's more inconvenient as the guy passenger will hit up on her. other than that, guy passenger, there is nothing to lose. i actually think this is a good idea, in sg, all is well and safe.

 

[ToaPehGong]

Stupid. Should kidnap AMDK cos AMDK is a superior breed and would be worth more money.

 

[Froggy]

1. I seriously doubt this started off as a kidnapping case because one don’t kidnap another person for a minuscule $62k

2. Another reasons is that this “kidnapping” did not follow the standard Thai Kidnapping Text Book. If it’s a kidnap here it will not be in the news cos this Mark Cheng would have simply disappeared.

3. As a foreigner one should not carry a firearm. Only locals can be licensed to own a legal gun. This Lee Wei Kim guy is in some very serious shit but if he has very deep pockets all his troubles can easily go away as luckily for him no one die in this case but since he’d confessed it’ll be complicating.