Korean Suspect in Pattaya Murder Case Arrested in Jeongeup and Detained

Reasons for Concern Over Flight Risk and Evidence Destruction

Among the three suspects in the murder of a Korean national in Pattaya, Thailand, the first to be apprehended, a man in his 20s identified as A, has been arrested and detained.

On the 15th, Judge Kim Sungjin of the Changwon District Court in South Gyeongsang Province issued an arrest warrant for A, who was apprehended on charges of murder and corpse abandonment, citing concerns over flight risk and destruction of evidence.

Prior to the warrant review, A repeatedly told reporters asking about his motive and the whereabouts of his accomplices, "I didn't kill him, I don't know anything."

One of the suspects in the murder case of a Korean in Pattaya, Thailand, is being escorted by the police to the Changwon District Court in Gyeongnam for a detention warrant hearing.
[Photo by Lee Seryeong]

A is suspected of kidnapping and murdering a Korean man in his 30s, identified as B, in Pattaya, Thailand, and abandoning the body. He was urgently arrested by police at a residence in Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province, at around 7:46 p.m. on the 12th.

Police identified and pursued three suspects in their 20s?A, B, and C?in connection with the discovery of a black plastic container holding the body of a Korean man with all his fingers severed, which was recovered from a reservoir in Pattaya, Thailand, on the 11th local time.

Police are investigating the motive for the crime based on evidence that the suspects called the deceased man's mother on the 7th, threatening, "Your son caused losses by discarding drugs. If you do not pay 3 million baht (approximately 112 million won), we will kill your son."

Regarding B, who was apprehended at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at around 12:10 a.m. on the 14th, authorities are currently considering the timing of his extradition to Korea in cooperation with local police. The search continues for D, who remains at large.

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