Thailand: Dead pensioner - arrested German can be released on bail

After his arrest for an unexplained death in Thailand, a 52-year-old German may be released on bail. This was reported by a police spokesman in Saen Puk, about 90 kilometers south of the capital Bangkok.

The man who is said to have buried the body of a 77-year-old German pensioner in a nearby canal is still in jail. According to the police, he does not have enough money to pay the deposit. In the conversation is a sum of approximately 1500 euros. There was no official confirmation.

At present, investigations are ongoing into how the woman was killed. According to the German and his Thai wife, she died in a bathroom crash when she was visiting the couple. The police does not exclude a violent crime.

Wanted by arrest warrant

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.

The 52-year-old had his last German residence in Timmendorfer beach in Schleswig-Holstein. Because of various offenses in Germany is a warrant for his arrest. He is accused of fraud, said a spokeswoman for the district court Eutin. Above all, he had brought older women for their money, for example, by getting their EC card data. The arrest warrant has now been converted into an international arrest warrant.