
PHUKET – Phuket Immigration caught a Swedish-Russian man who robbed and extorted money from Russian woman, at the airport when he was about to leaving.
On May 15, Pol. Lt. Gen. Ittipol Ittisarnronnachai, commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, revealed that Mr. Oleksandr, a 25-year-old Swedish and Russian national, suspected of robbery, was arrested by immigration police at Phuket International Airport and handed over to the interrogators at Chalong Police Station for prosecution.
Mr. Oleksandr is a suspect in a case where Ms. Diera, a 23-year-old Russian national, filed a complaint with the Chalong Police. She stated that on May 8 at 11:00 p.m., she arranged to meet Mr. Oleksandr through the Telegram application at a villa in Chalong subdistrict, Mueang district, Phuket province, to exchange 25,000 baht in cash for 700 US dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
While they were talking at the meeting place, another suspect, a Russian man, walked in without Ms. Diera being aware. Then, that man helped Mr. Oleksandr grab Ms. Diera, locked her, put a bag over her head, tied her arms and legs, and seized her phone while forcing her to transfer more money. When she said she had no money left, Mr. Oleksandr slapped her face until she told him her phone password.

Later, when the Swedish-Russian suspect found that Ms. Diera really had no money left in her online account as she said, he forced her to contact a friend who was staying in a nearby room to bring the cash from her room.
The Russian man and Mr. Oleksandr then stole 2,000 US dollars and an additional 6,000 baht from Ms. Diera, totaling 104,546 baht. After they released her, she quickly filed a complaint with the police officers at Chalong Police Station to prosecute the two men.
Later, Chalong Police informed Phuket Immigration Police, and while Mr. Oleksandr was about to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, immigration officers found his name on a watchlist and arrested him immediately on charges of jointly robbing others at night.
As the other suspect has already fled the country, officials will gather evidence and present it to interrogators in order to request that the Phuket Provincial Court issue an arrest warrant and pursue him for further legal action.
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