At a news conference this morning (Tuesday), Thailand’s national police chief, Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittipraphat, said that a team of Thai immigration officers had already traveled to Beijing to assist Chinese authorities in questioning the three suspects.

In order to arrest the three individuals, Thai police had applied for an Interpol Red Notice.
But, if the Chinese government does not want to extradite the three suspects to Thailand to face trial, the police chief warned that they might have to be tried there. In this instance, the Thai police will compile all pertinent information for transmission to their Chinese counterparts.
In China, he said, murderers may receive the death penalty.
He added that the police are investigating whether more people were involved in the kidnapping and that they are keeping a 19-year-old Thai bar girl for questioning because they believe she was an accessory to the crime.
On March 28, in front of the Central Westgate shopping center in the Bang Yai area of Nonthaburi province, the Chinese student, a 22-year-old third-year music student at Bangkok Thonburi University, vanished and was allegedly kidnapped. On April 1st, Bang Yai banana plantation workers discovered her dead in a ditch.
In the meantime, the “Lui Chine” website said in a post that the case is an example of a common romance scam, in which a gang learns about the riches of their potential victim’s family and then contacts the victim via social media in an effort to become friends. Subsequently, when the victim took a flight to Thailand to continue her studies, they pursued her with the intention of kidnapping her.
The victim’s father was contacted by the kidnappers, who demanded a ransom of 500,000 yuan (about 2.5 million baht), according to the webpage. Several Chinese netizens questioned why he did not pay the ransom or call the Chinese police.
The father did inform the victim’s Thai lecturer of the kidnapping, but he thought it might have been a joke.