A police team has been dispatched to Malaysia to work with
authorities there to track down the suspected Erawan shrine
bomber. Deputy national police chief Chakthip Chaijinda,
who leads the investigation into the bombings at the shrine
and Sathon pier on Aug 17 and 18 respectively, said Thursday
he had assigned Pol Lt Gen Suchart Teerasawat, an inspector-
general, to go to Malaysia for the mission.
No investigation progress has been reported
back so far,
Pol Gen Chakthip told the Bangkok Post. A highly-placed
source at
the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) also said
Thursday that Pol Lt Gen
Suchart travelled to Malaysia three
days earlier
following the discovery that a bombing suspect
had sneaked out of the country
through a southern border
area in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district.
The man was likely to be the yellow-shirted
suspect seen
planting a backpack believed to contain a bomb at the Erawan
shrine shortly before the deadly blast on Aug 17, the source said.
A
technical probe into the the bombings and testimonies from
two detained
suspects made police confident that the fleeing
man was definitely associated
with the bombings, the source said.
He
was referring to Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili.
Mr Karadag, 28, was arrested
in his room at the Pool Anant
apartment in Nong Chok district on Aug 29 while
Mr Mieraili,
25, was later caught and detained in Sa Kaeo on Sept 1.
The two
are now being detained at Min Buri prison.
Police allege they were involved in the two
bombings.
The source said the man suspected of being the yellow-shirted
bomber
sneaked out of the country with the help of a Sungai
Kolok-based trafficking
network that smuggled Rohingya
to Malaysia.
The source said Pol Lt Gen Suchart
was picked for the
mission due to his investigation expertise in the
southernmost
provinces and his close relationships with local Malaysian
authorities. "The work between us and the Malaysian [police]
could lead to
the arrest of the suspect within one or two days,"
the source said.
Meanwhile, another investigation source said
police are probing
whether the bombing suspects were financially linked with
Abubaka bin Sulaiman, a Malaysian man accused of being
involved in online football
gambling and drug trafficking.
His criminal syndicate in Thailand was busted in
2009 and
he has since fled to Malaysia.
As
for the ongoing probe into the money trail of the bombing
suspects, national police
spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said
CCTV footage at a Bangkok Bank branch on Soi
Ramkhamhaeng 22 on Aug 5 showed Mr Mieraili came
alone to the bank to conduct a
transaction.
This differed from theearlier report that Mr Mieraili and
suspected bombing mastermind Abudureheman Abudusataer,
known as
"Ishan", went to the bank together on that day.
The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) has
also sent
some initial information about Mr Mieraili's financial
transactions
to investigators. Not much money has been
wired to the suspect and no
information suggested it was
transferred from the mastermind of the attack,
the
spokesman said.
Meanwhile, a security source said Ishan had left Bangladesh.
The revelation came one day after Pol Gen Chakthip said
police were seeking
help from Interpol to hunt Mr Ishan
who they believed had fled to Bangladesh.
The suspect was likely to have returned to Turkey,
the source said.
A
probe is under way to determine whether the money
wired from Turkey was used to
fund the attacks or the
network smuggling Uighurs, the source said.
The
detained suspects told investigators a Thai person acted
as a coordinator for
the group, the source said.
The suspects, according to the source, said
they had
never met the coordinator but only heard her voice during
phone
conversations.
The investigators believe the woman was Wanna Suansan,
who
rented a room at the Maimuna Garden Home apartment
in Bangkok's Min Buri
district where urea-based fertiliser
and other bomb-making material were
discovered,
the source said.
Pol
Lt Gen Prawut said police are gathering evidence to
seek to seek an arrest
warrant for Mr Ishan, who used to
stay in the same apartment with other
suspects and that
he might have been aware of the attack.
He said Interpol and
Bangladeshi authorities had been asked
to look for Mr Ishan, but they have yet
to produce any
information. He said Mr Mieraili has so far spoken mainly
about
his role, and has said little about other bombing suspects.
Responding to a media report that Mr
Mieraili is part of
the separatist network in the Xinjiang region, which is
home to ethnic Uighurs, national police chief Somyot
Poompunmuang said he was
not aware of the report.
News,Security,Bangkok Post ,11 September
2015.
In my viewpoint,everythings can link to find
out where
the suspects had escaped to.
How rapid we can arrest the suspects depend
on the cooperation
between every country to help solving the
bomb case.
Hope we can arrest all the suspects in the
end.
Believe in good judgement.
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