Police seek to revoke Vorayuth’s passport

Royal Thai Police’s Foreign Affairs Division director Pol Maj-General Apichat Suriboonya said on Monday that the division also found an immigration record that Vorayuth left Thailand on April 25 for an unidentified country. An arrest warrant was issued for him last week after he failed to appear before prosecutors. 
He said Thai police was waiting for a reply from their counterparts in the UK regarding Vorayuth’s whereabouts to help the Office of the Attorney-General seek his extradition. 
Apichat said they would discuss the possible extradition of Vorayuth with Interpol officers in the UK this week and if he was not in the UK , a warrant will be issued across 190-member countries to locate him.
Deputy national police spokesman Pol Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said police had also contacted all immigration checkpoints to look for Vorayuth. 
He said he also asked Apichat’s division to contact Interpol and work with the Office of the Attorney-General to proceed with Vorayuth’s extradition and asked the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Department of Consular Affairs about steps to revoke his Thai passport. 
He said that a disciplinary probe was ongoing against 10 policemen for malfeasance in office for their handling of Vorayuth’s case.
Having repeatedly ignored previous summonses, Vorayuth is yet to be charged for the hit-and-run death of police Senior Sgt-Major Wichean Klinprasert on Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Road in 2012. 
He remains accused of reckless driving resulting in death, which has a 15-year statute of limitation, and refusing to stop to assist a victim, for which the statute ends in September. The first offence carries a maximum jail term of 10 years and the latter six months.