– Mr. Aslan, 34, a businessman of Turkish descent, told Pattaya police three men entered his Cascade home in Nongprue at 3:30 a.m. on October 6th, handcuffed him, and forced a crypto transfer.
– The loss is put at more than 37 million baht: about 27.5 million in USDT, plus cash, Rolex watches, and phones.
– Region 2 police named five Chinese men as suspects on October 10th. Pattaya Court has issued warrants. Police say they flew out of Don Mueang within about six hours and are in China, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
– Investigators say the group rented the house next door for 92,000 baht a month from early September and watched the mark for about a month. A black Toyota Fortuner linked to the raid was found abandoned in Soi Jomtien 9.
Pattaya and Region 2 police have named five Chinese men as suspects in the 37 million Baht armed robbery of crypto, watches, and other valuables of a Turkish businessman in a Nongprue housing estate, and say all five fled out of Thailand within about six hours.
Pol. Maj. Gen. Phongphan Wongmanithet, deputy commander of Provincial Police Region 2, and Pol. Maj. Gen. Chatree Suksiri, Chonburi provincial commander, briefed local reporters at 11:00 a.m. on October 10th. The raid was at Cascade village on Moo 8 at 3:30 a.m. on October 6th.
Mr. Aslan, 34, who says he is a businessman, reported that about three men in masks entered the house by force, handcuffed him, assaulted him, and threatened him with a gun. They made him open a safe and transfer USDT through an app, a sum police put at about 27.5 million baht.
They also took cash, Rolex watches, and three mobile phones. The briefing put the total above 37 million baht.
Phongphan publicly named and identified the five as Dong Ping, 38; Li Xinlei, 31; Wang Hongbiao, 32; Hongda Miu, 33; and Zhiyu Wang, 31, all Chinese. Police say they went to China, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. Officers seized a black Toyota Fortuner they believe was used in the raid, abandoned in Soi Jomtien 9, about 3 kilometres from the house, and clothing they think is linked to it.
Chatree said the group appears to have carefully planned the job. They rented a house in the same village, one door away, at 92,000 baht a month, and a car, from early September, then watched Aslan for about a month. After the robbery they went to Don Mueang immediately and left the country. Aslan said he did not know them. Police are checking whether anyone inside the village tipped them off or how the group identified Aslan as a target.
Pattaya Provincial Court has approved warrants for all five: jointly committing robbery in a dwelling at night, with weapons, causing physical and mental harm; jointly detaining a person; and possessing and carrying firearms without a permit. Phongphan said police will ask Interpol for Red Notices.
Those charges sit at the top of the property-crime scale. Robbery in a dwelling at night, with a weapon and injury, is an aggravated form under the Criminal Code and can draw a long prison term. The firearm counts are separate. None of the five is in custody, so the warrants are the case for now.
The robbery was reported on October 7th, before the names were known.
It is the latest in a run of crimes in which foreign gangs target other foreigners in Pattaya for cash and crypto rather than for street theft. In a separate case this week, tourist police arrested four Thais in a mule-account network that delivered cash to a Chinese principal at Pattaya hotels.