British most wanted drug smuggler nabbed in Phuket; man has been pretending to be pro boxer for past two years

BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officers finally tracked down and arrested a British fugitive who had been hiding in Thailand over the past two years pretending to be a boxer.

CSD chief Pol Maj-General Montree Theskhan said on Tuesday that Ben Ransom, 28, was tracked down to a restaurant in Phuket’s Muang district on Monday after they received a request from the UK National Crime Agency.

The British agency had called on Thailand’s Central Investigation Bureau to find Ransom, who had fled to the Kingdom in 2022.

Ransom was fleeing a drug trafficking case in which he would have been imprisoned for life if convicted.

After investigation, CSD found that Ransom had rented a condominium in Phuket and was pretending to be a boxer named Billy.

Police said he has been handed over to the Office of the Attorney-General’s Foreign Litigation Department to be extradited to Britain. – The Nation Thailand/ANN