Two transnational criminals nabbed in Thailand

BANGKOK, April 25 (TNA) - Local immigration police have arrested two transnational criminals who fled to Thailand to escape their charges in Europe. The Thai immigration police reported in Bangkok on Friday that a 59-year-old Slovak man, Dusan Keckes, was first arrested at a house in Wang Nam Khiao District of Nakhon Ratchasima Province in the Thai Northeast without evidence of his legal entry to Thailand. The Slovak fugitive was wanted by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) for extorting four million Slovak Koruna, or over 5.92 million baht from a private company in Slovakia’s Zilina City in 1997. According to the Thai immigration polic, another 59-year-old German man, Heinz Josef Schulz, was then apprehended at a condominium in Bang Lamung District of Chonburi Province in the Thai East, under an arrest warrant approved by a German court for 36 Internet fraud cases worth over three-million-baht damage. Evidence showed he latest entered Thailand in 2012. (TNA)