
A Russia native wanted there in a murder case has been arrested by immigration police at the request of the Russian embassy in Thailand, the Immigration Police Bureau revealed on Sunday.
The deputy commissioner of the bureau, Pol Maj Gen Panthana Nuchanart, said the Russian embassy earlier sent a request to the Foreign Ministry, seeking help from Thai police to arrest the 51-year-old man, identified by police as Igor Guzhin, and extradite him to Russia.