The latest news on the death of a group of Vietnamese people in Thailand from Bangkok Post said that Major General Witthawat Chinkham - Commander of Team 5 of the Bangkok Capital Police Department revealed that the police are investigating whether the cyanide used in this case was smuggled into Thailand or purchased in this country.
He said Thai police are waiting for the results of all forensic tests before deciding whether to call anyone else for questioning.
Thai police are also trying to contact the sisters of one of the six victims in Bangkok. This woman returned to Vietnam on July 10.
Mr. Chanchai Sittipunt - Director of Chulalongkorn Hospital - informed on July 18 that the autopsy of the group of Vietnamese people who died in Thailand had been completed. If the police do not seek any other information related to the death, the victim's relatives can receive the bodies.
In an investigation into the cause of the death in Thailand, police believe that Sherine Chong - one of the six deaths found at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in Bangkok on the evening of July 16 - poisoned others and then committed suicide. The potential engine of suspect Sherine Chong in the murder case is a large debt.
Previously, Major General Theeradet Thumsuthee - Head of the Investigation Department of the Capital Police Department (MPB) - shared at a meeting at the Lumpini police station that Thai police had questioned the daughter of one of the six victims as well as other witnesses. He said that the information provided by the respondents was very useful.
"The case could stem from the debt issue. There is no other possibility. The perpetrator was among the 6 people who died because only they entered the room. There is none else" - Major General Theeradet said.
Six people were found dead in a room on the fifth floor of the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in central Bangkok on the evening of July 16. The two were US citizens and the rest were Vietnamese citizens.
A Vietnamese person booked a room next to this group of people for the 7th time. Thai police believe that the woman is the sister of one of the victims. The woman left Thailand on July 10 and is believed to have no involvement with the dead.
Previously, Mr. Kornkiat Vongpaisarnsin - Director of the autopsy center at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University - said that blood samples of 6 deceased people were examined and cyanide was discovered.
A police source revealed to Bangkok Post that investigators had invited Tien Thang Pham - Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan's ex-husband, one of the six dead - to be questioned at the Lumpini police station on July 17. According to this source, Mr. Tien Thang Pham was on a trip to Japan and had made a video call to his ex-wife before the incident.
The Bangkok Post also revealed that Thai police are contacting US law enforcement officials for more information about Sherine Chong, a US citizen.
In the investigation into the death of 6 people in Thailand, investigators also discovered that suspect Sherine Chong had been filed a complaint with the police by some Vietnamese people in San Francisco more than 10 years ago.
Suspect Sherine Chong was accused of defrauding and supporting these people to become US citizens. However, US prosecutors eventually decided to overturn the lawsuit against Sherine Chong.
