Police have arrested two men from Cameroon and Myanmar on suspicion of murdering a Taiwanese man at a hotel in Bang Na district, Bangkok. A Thai woman is suspected to be the mastermind behind the crime.
Police said on Friday that John Agbor, a 40-year-old Cameroonian, and Zwe Lin Pyae, 21, were arrested on Srinagarindra Road late Thursday night.
They were charged with the murder of Chu Chiang Shen, 48, whose body was found in a room in the Niran Grand Hotel on Udomsuk Soi 17 off Sukhumvit 103 Road, on Thursday morning. Hotel staff found the body after the victim's friend reported that the victim could not be contacted by phone.
According to police, the arrested suspects, along with another unidentified white European man who remains at large, targeted the victim's wealth based on information from a Thai woman who allegedly ordered the attack, claiming that the victim was rich.
The gang rented another room at the same hotel to prepare for the crime.
The three suspects attacked the Taiwanese man in his room around 1am on Thursday. They covered his head with a plastic food wrap sheet and used belts to tie his limbs.
They did not find the victim's money but stole his notebook computer and mobile phone.
