A man in his 20s has been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of involvement in the murder and abandonment of the body of a South Korean tourist in Pattaya, Thailand, police officials said Monday.
The suspect was nabbed at his residence in the southwestern city of Jeongeup on Sunday evening and put under emergency arrest, according to the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency.
Police have been tracing the whereabouts of the suspect, who is one of the three South Koreans suspected of kidnapping and murdering a South Korean national in his 30s in Pattaya.
Over the weekend, Thai police discovered the victim’s body inside a black plastic container filled with cement in a reservoir in Pattaya after his mother received a warning from an unknown man that her son would be killed if a ransom was not paid, according to local media and the South Korean Embassy in Thailand.
The South Korean police confirmed that one of the three suspects had returned to his home country from Thailand last week, and through surveillanc
e cameras tracked him down at his home for arrest.
The suspect was said to have denied all charges brought against him during an overnight police interrogation.
Police plan to request an arrest warrant for the man and look into the whereabouts of the two remaining accomplices in cooperation with Thai police.
“Details of the case cannot be disclosed as it is currently under investigation,” a police official said.
Source: Yonhap News Agency