JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Among Thailand’s many desired fugitives will be accompanied home on a Thai flying force aircraft after being apprehended on Indonesia’s traveler island of Bali following months on the run in connection with numerous killings and drug trafficking charges in his homeland, authorities stated Monday.
Chaowalit Thongduang got away from detention in Thailand while being dealt with at a health center. When he was apprehended Thursday, he was utilizing a phony Indonesian nationwide identity card which he got soon after showing up in Indonesia’s northern most province of Aceh in December after a 17-hour speedboat journey from India, stated Wahyu Widada, head of the Indonesian National Cops’s Lawbreaker Examination Department.
Chaowalit was apprehended in a raid at his apartment or condo in Badung regency in Bali. Authorities took 4 mobile phones from him in addition to numerous phony identity files.
“We are still examining regional homeowners who assisted release Chaowalit’s phony identity,” Widada stated.
Thai Minister of Justice Tawee Sodsong, who took a trip to Indonesia to consult with Chaowalit, stated he will be flown on a military aircraft Tuesday to Thailand, where he is desired in the murder or tried murder of law enforcement officer and others and drug trafficking.
Tawee stated Chaowalit applauded the authorities for having the ability to trace him after he ran away through numerous nations.
Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin stated he was positive that the legal system which collared Chaowalit might bring him to justice.
Indonesia and Thailand signed an extradition contract in 1978.
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Associated Press author Napat Kongsawad in Bangkok added to this report.