Alleged Belgian gang leader arrested in Phuket
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Crime Suppression police and Belgian Embassy on Tuesday announced the arrest of Belgian criminal gang leader suspect Marc De Schutter in Phuket's Muang district.
The 57-year-old fugitive was nabbed in front of a Tambon Rawai house on Monday along with two computer notebooks, a cell phone, and three document files, after the embassy contacted Thai police to arrest him. De Schutter maintained his innocence.
Being Belgium's fifth most wanted man, he allegedly involved in major criminal cases in Belgium including thefts, fraud, murder of his own wife, drug smuglling, illegal item trafficking (oil, cigarette, and war weapon), money laundering. He allegedly had connections with criminal syndicates in Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Ireland and Armenia.
The Nation
