The Yoovidhyas are behind Red Bull, the high-octane energy concoction — and an associated extreme sports brand — now a worldwide staple of all-night study sessions, overextended partygoers and late shifts. On Monday, Interpol released a “red notice” for Yoovidhya, the Associated Press reported. The statute of limitations expired earlier this year on one of the charges Yoovidhya faces; the clock on another is set to give out Sept. 3. The Red Bull empire starts with Chaleo Yoovidhya, Vorayuth Yoovidhya’s grandfather. One of his products — Krating Daeng or “red bull” — was an energy-boasting syrup popular with “day labourers, weary long-haul truckers and rickshaw drivers,” as The Washington Post reported in 2012.

Source: National Post August 29, 2017 15:39 UTC