THAI police have arrested a Russian national who had been hiding for over three years in the kingdom’s Bang Lamung district after receiving an Interpol notice that he was wanted on a drug charge in his homeland.
Bangkok Post quoted deputy chief of Chon Buri immigration police Pol Lt Col Tawatchai Nongbua as saying that a manhunt for the 27-year-old fugitive Dmitry Filipsin was launched immediately after the alert was received.
The report says the man had been living in the district with his wife.
It says when the police knocked on Filipsin’s door on Sunday, only his wife emerged. After some negotiations, …read more
Source: Asian Correspondent
