Phone data leads to bomb arrest a Turkish fake passport man!!

 

 

 

Ball bearings and bomb-building equipment found in suspect's room.

Police say a painstaking process of tracing phone records led

 to Saturday’s arrest of a key suspect in the deadly Erawan

Shrine bombing.

 

 

under arrest: Police are still working to confirm the identity of

the suspect, who was apprehended at a Nong Chok apartment

 with a poor quality forgery of a Turkish passport.

A police source close to the investigation said the arrest of the

 

 foreign man, who is believed to be Turkish, came after

 

investigators spent more than a week sifting through every

 

 mobile phone call made within the vicinity of the shrine

 

around the time of the bombing on Aug 17. He said officers

 

managed to identify three Turkish phone numbers which had

 

 activated international roaming services and were in use near

 

 the blast site. Police apparently traced one of those phone

 

numbers to the suspect apprehended yesterday.

 

Around 100 police and soldiers moved in to make the arrest

 

 around 3pm at the Pool Anant apartment building in Nong

 

 Chok district, in the city’s eastern outskirts. A military source

 

 said the suspect held a Turkish passport by the name of

 

Adem Karadag, 28, although the document was later found

 

to be fake. A large quantity of bomb-making materials and

 

equipment which allegedly belong to the suspect were seized

 

 from his rented room. Deputy national police chief Chakthip

 

 Chaijinda said “many” passports had also been found in

 

 the suspect’s room. They were confiscated as evidence and

 

 would be tested for authenticity. Pol Gen Chakthip said

 

it was unclear if the suspect is the same man seen on CCTV

 

footage wearing a yellow T-shirt and depositing a backpack

 

 at the Erawan Shrine minutes before the bombing.

 

 However, sources in the Metropolitan Police Bureau and

 

 the Crime Suppression Division said the suspect is not

 

believed to be the bomber. Instead he is believed to be

 

one of three individuals involved in orchestrating the blast,

 

which killed 20 people and injured 130.

 

 Authorities have linked the incident to another bomb which

 

exploded in the water near the Sathon pier the following day.

 

There were no injuries. The police sources said the detained

 

 suspect is believed to have delivered the bomb to the suspect

 

in the yellow T-shirt at Hua Lamphong train station,

 

 shortly before the bomber caught a tuk-tuk to the shrine to

 

plant the device. The sources added the Erawan Shrine and

 

 Sathon pier bombers may have already fled the country.

 

 The detained suspect possibly remained in the country

 

 because he has problems with his travel document,

 

the sources said. Even passing inspection of the fake passport

 

 showed several inconsistencies, the most notable being that

 

 the “date of expiry” line had been printed twice.

 

The suspect has been charged with possessing explosives

 

 without permission, said national police chief Somyot

 

Poompanmuang. He was remanded in military custody

 

at an undisclosed location yesterday after being briefly

 

 detained for questioning at Nong Chok police station.

 

Before that, officers had searched five rooms at the apartment

 

complex, four of which proved empty.

 

Crime Suppression Division commander Akkaradech Pimolsri

 

said bomb making equipment and parts were found in the

 

 suspect’s room, including  large packs of 5mm ball bearings,

 

the same as the type used in the two bombings.

 

Also recovered were a detonator, batteries, electrical wires,

 

a metal pipe, chemical containers and a gunpowder-stained shirt.

 

A police source said rental contracts showed all five rooms had

 

 been rented by a male Turkish passport holder named

 

Ammet Mehmet Emin Ayse on January 27 last year.

 

Local residents living near the apartment building told reporters

 

 the suspect could not speak Thai and mostly kept to himself.

 

Sometimes, he and several friends would eat at a local food stall.

 

Pol Gen Somyot and police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri

 

 later inspected the apartment complex. Pol Gen Somyot

 

became visibly irritated when confronted by a reporter’s

 

question as to whether the suspect was a scapegoat.

 

 “How can you ask such a question? Are you Thai?

 

It’s completely unhelpful,” he said. During the raid yesterday,

 

 police had cordoned off a 100-metre-wide area around the

 

 apartment building. One lane of Chuem Samphan Road

 

 adjacent to the apartment was also closed.

 

 Col Noppasit Sithipongsophon, who led the military team

 

in the joint search operation yesterday, said the detained

 

 suspect was  was “definitely involved” with the shrine bombing.

 

News,Security,Bangkok Post,30 August 2015.

 

In my viewpoint,I believe that the detained suspect fake Turkish

 

passot is definitely involves with the shrine bombing because

 

there is no reason for the police to fake it,and the arrested happen

 

 after the process of investigation.

 

The fact that the room of the detained suspect was rent since

 

 January 27 last year was frighten me ,because it mean that

 

 they have paln for  a long time ,just wiat for the time to bomb

 

 and frighten Thai people and also to insult the military

 

 government.

 

So the government must find that who is the real person

 

who order this bomb to happen and arrest them so that it will

 

be safe for the future.

 

Sincerely Yours.