Crime Suppression Division police arrest French cybercrime fugitive Jonathan Verron at a house on Koh Samui, Surat Thani, early on Friday morning. (Police photo via Wassayos Ngamkham)A French cybercrime gang leader wanted for hacking into customers' accounts at a bank in England and demanding a ransom was caught in Koh Samui district, Surat Thani, early Friday morning. Joint teams of Crime Suppression Division police, forensic officials, French embassy officials and French police raided three locations looking for him -- one on Koh Samui and two in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district. The suspect was initially being held in police custody on Koh Samui on a charge of marijuana possession. French fugitive Jonathan Verron, 25, is arrested at a house at tambon Mae Nam, Surat Thani's Koh Samui, on Friday morning.

Source: Bangkok Post May 18, 2018 05:48 UTC