In May, conspired with two others to rob victim's valuables and charged with murder, etc.
All three suspects in their 20s and 30s involved in the 'Pattaya Korean Tourist Murder Case' that occurred last May have been brought to trial.
The Changwon District Prosecutors' Office Criminal Division 2 (Chief Prosecutor Kang Hojun) announced on the 18th that defendant D (39) was arrested and indicted on charges of murder (robbery murder, corpse concealment, etc.) for killing Korean tourist B in Pattaya, Thailand.
D is the last defendant among the three involved in this case to be caught, having been apprehended in Vietnam last month and extradited to South Korea. D is accused of kidnapping, murdering, mutilating, and abandoning the body of B along with A and C, both in their 20s, in Pattaya on May 3rd.
A and C were arrested shortly after the incident in May, in Jeongeup, Jeonbuk, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, respectively. These two were successively arrested and indicted in June and August and are currently on trial.
According to the prosecution's investigation, the three defendants, including A, forced B to drink alcohol laced with sleeping pills at a club in Bangkok to rob him of valuables, then transported him by car, during which B resisted and died.
The defendants were found to have maintained their livelihood through voice phishing and other scams overseas, conspired to rob Korean tourists of valuables, and selected their targets in a KakaoTalk open chat room where they shared overseas travel information.
After mutilating parts of the victim's body, they abandoned it in a reservoir in Pattaya and then threatened the victim's family by phone, saying, "If you do not transfer 100 million won, we will harm your son."
A prosecution official stated, "We will do our best to ensure that the defendants receive sentences commensurate with their crimes," adding, "We will continue to respond strictly and firmly to violent criminals who threaten the lives or bodies of citizens."
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