Three men have been arrested for posing as security officers, using a fake arrest warrant and extorting 3.1 million baht from a man while he was in a house in Bangkok with his wife and their two children, said Pol Maj Gen Teeradej Thumsutee, an investigation division chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau.
Pol Maj Gen Teeradej said the incident occurred on April 11 when four men, posing as military officers attached to the Internal Security Operations Command and Crime Suppression Division police, went to a house in Bangkok with a fake arrest warrant.
They told the man in the house that he was wanted on a fraud charge. The four men then extorted 3.1 million baht from the man, who provided the money for fear of legal action. At the time, the man was in the house with his wife and their children, aged 6 and 9, and a housemaid.
