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Two former Marines arrested in foiled kidnapping plot in Thailand

Two former US Marines were among four people — including a high-ranking police official — who have been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly kidnapping a Taiwanese businessman in a restaurant for a ransom over a PPE deal gone bad.

Ex-Marines Jeremy Hughes Manchester, 41, and Louis William Ziskin, 52, the CEO and founder of an on-demand live video platform, were busted along with Ekbodin Prasitnarit and Thai police Lt. Col. Kristsnaporn Thapthawee, the Thai Examiner reported.

Wen Yu Chung, 60, the Taiwanese businessman, was captured on surveillance footage from March 28 being put in a headlock and being dragged out of the L’Oliva restaurant in Thong Lor, The Thaiger reported.

Thapthawee was seen in the video supervising the abduction in connection with the $2.95 million ransom plot over the purchase of nitrile gloves, according to the local reports.

In late 2020, Ziskin allegedly appointed the Collection Company Ltd. to negotiate the purchase of a large quantity of the gloves with the Paddy The Room Trading Co. for almost $3 million, the Bangkok Post reported.

But he lost the money in an ensuing business conflict, so he hired Michael Greenberg, an Israeli who opened a private detective company in Thailand last year, to help him recoup the losses, according to the outlet.

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