In Thailand, a 52-year-old German was arrested because he is said to have sunk a dead German pensioner in a canal in the province of Chonburi. The exact background is still unclear, as the police in Bangkok announced.
According to the German and his Thai wife, the 77-year-old died in a fall in the bathroom when she was with the couple as a guest. The suspect's partner said her husband put her in a box and dumped her in a canal. The police do not exclude a violent crime.
The detainee and the dead, according to the police, had run a bar in Pattaya that was not doing well. Shortly before her death, they would have argued about it. The man lived according to his girlfriend from the pension of 77-year-olds.
Wanted by arrest warrant
The suspect was last reported in Schleswig-Holstein. The public prosecutor's office Lübeck has brought against him in 2016 and 2017 several charges of fraud and embezzlement. He is wanted by warrant of the district court Eutin, in him 22 offenses are listed according to a spokeswoman. He is accused of fraud, he should have brought especially older women for their money, for example, by their EC card data geschalft. The arrest warrant has now been converted into an international arrest warrant.
The man has been in Thailand for a long time. Together with his wife, he lived in a house in the province of Chonburi south of Bangkok. Nearby is the canal where he should have thrown the corpse.
