A HUNGARIAN man was arrested in Chonburi today (March 8) on a charge of stealing 1.5 million baht from a vehicle parked at a shopping mall in Nonthaburi last Monday (March 3), Amarin TV said.
Region 1 Provincial Police, together with an investigation team from Nonthaburi, tracked down and arrested Mr. Altal, 57, at a Chonburi building’s swimming pool and charged him with smashing the window of a vehicle which a man from Lampang province had parked at a shopping mall in Ngam Wong Wan area and making off with the large amount of cash kept there.
The unidentified 38-year-old victim told police that after withdrawing 1.5 million baht from a bank he put the cash on the back seat of his sedan and went to run some errands within this mall. Upon returning he found that the vehicle’s window was smashed and all the cash gone.
Police then tracked down the suspect by going through surveillance camera clips and saw a foreign man riding away on a motorcycle without a licence plate. He headed for Phetkasem intersection, Bangkok’s Sai Mai district, and parked his motorbike at a repair shop then got into a taxi and disappeared for two hours. He then returned with a licence plate which the mechanic attached.
After identifying the suspect who has a 37-year-old Thai wife and lived near the repair shop, police got an arrest warrant from Nonthaburi Provincial Court on the charge “theft by damaging a barrier protecting property.”
At around 12.25 p.m. today the police team found the suspect relaxing by the swimming pool and upon arresting him also seized the motorcycle, 187,850 baht in cash and a mobile phone.
Initially the suspect has denied the charge but the police team is expanding the investigation to take legal action.
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The Hungarian suspect being arrested today, March 8, 2025. Photos: Amarin TV
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