Foreign criminal suspects nabbed in Thailand

BANGKOK, July 30 (TNA) - Local immigration police have apprehended seven foreign criminal suspects while hiding in Thailand. Police General Wuthi Liptapanlop, a senior adviser to the Royal Thai Police, told a press conference in Bangkok on Wednesday that a French man, Jornatan Piant, was arrested on Samui Island in Surat Thani Province in the Thai South, after he escaped from prosecution in France for smuggling 750 kilograms of marijuana, worth 3.5 million euros, from Spain into France in early 2012. Police General Wuthi said a Hungarian man, Antal Racz, was also recently arrested in seaside Hua Hin District of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in the Upper Thai South under an arrest warrant issued by the Interpol on August 24, 2005, for killing two people and seriously injuring 14 others with a gun and a grenade in a fight against a rival family. A Hungarian court already sentenced him to life imprisonment. Besides, an Italian man, Francesco Galdell, was nabbed at Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok on July 25 under an arrest warrant approved by a Milan court for fraud, acceptance of stolen objects, impersonation, pirated goods sales and copyright violation. In another case, the senior Thai officer stated, Taiwanese Chang Chia Wei, Wang Yi Chieh, Wu Yu Shuo and Chen Li Yen were arrested allegedly for being part of a 21-member call center scam in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Taiwanese and Cambodian authorities earlier arrested 13 suspects in the gang in Phnom Penh. (TNA)