Hunt for man suspected of kidnapping sister -in-law
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Phitsanulok police are hunting down a man suspected of abducting his sister-in-law and stealing her money.
Witnesses have said they saw Kittisak Kong-artharn, 40, talking to Ploenta Pradubsuk, 56, a senior official at Phitsanulok Culture Office, on Saturday when she was suddenly pushed into her own pickup truck just before it sped away.
“A security camera showed Ploenta withdrawing Bt40,000 from an ATM in Chat Trakan district on Saturday night,” Pol Colonel Weerasomporn Yoosisakul, deputy provincial police chief, said yesterday.
A taskforce would now take charge of this case, which attracted wide public attention.
The footage showed two robust men accompanying Ploenta to the ATM.
“We have instructed all police stations in Provincial Police Region 6 to watch out for Ploenta’s pickup,” he said.
Kittisak, a native of Kanchanaburi, had married Ploenta’s younger sister Tida.
Chaiyaporn Thongpradit, Ploenta’s 27-year-old driver, told police that his boss had often told her close friends that if anything bad happened to her, the perpetrator must be Kittisak.
“Ploenta said Kittisak blamed her for his divorce from Tida,” Chaiyaporn said.
The driver, who has been working for Ploenta for about two years, said she used to live only with her aunt, Chaluay Haocharoen.
“But in mid-2011, she told me to drive to Kanchanaburi to pick up her sister Tida.
She’s a teacher who got partially paralysed and couldn’t take care of herself anymore,” he said.
Ploenta cared for Tida until she passed away, he said. Tida left Ploenta an estate worth nearly Bt2 million.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Kittisak.
“We’re now checking all resorts and hotels around Chat Trakan,” Weerasomporn said.
