By Thai Newsroom Reporters
EKALAK PAENOI, the ex-Marine gunman suspected to have killed a former Cambodian MP in Bangkok has been brought back from Battambang to the Thai capital today (Jan.11), police said.
The lone gunman who wore a bulletproof jacket and handcuffs was brought from Battambang aboard a Thai police helicopter under custody of the Metropolitan Police and almost immediately subject to police interrogation at Chana Songkhram police station following last Tuesday’s event in which he shot dead Lim Kimya, the ex-Khmer lawmaker previously attached to the Cambodia National Rescue, on a street in Banglamphu area of Bangkok.
Ekalak, believed to have been hired by a yet unknown person in Cambodia to kill the former Khmer MP, previously connected with former Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, had asked the Thai police in Battambang to provide him with personal safety measures for fear of the possibility of his being “fatally silenced” by those who may have masterminded the premeditated murder.
The suspected gunman who was arrested at a restaurant in Battambang and did not resist arrest has not yet shed light on anyone who may have hired him to commit the cross-border crime.
The Cambodian authorities are yet to bring to justice a Khmer national who had apparently followed the murder victim from Siem Reap to Bangkok and pointed him out for the Thai gunman.
After the crime had been committed, the suspected Khmer accomplice had immediately returned to Phnom Penh via Suvarnabhumi airport.
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