CHON BURI – An Austrian man wanted by Interpol for alleged involvement in a cocaine-trafficking network in his home country has been arrested at a hotel in Sattahip district, the Immigration Bureau said on Thursday.
Immigration police caught the 23-year-old, identified only as Fabio, at a hotel in tambon Na Jomtien on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after he had checked in. The arrest came after nearly two weeks of investigation and surveillance, said Pol Maj Gen Cheongron Rimpadee, the bureau spokesman.
Austrian federal police had asked their Thai counterparts for help locating the suspect, who is wanted on a European Union arrest warrant issued by the public prosecutor’s office in Wiener Neustadt on Jan 28.
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