Supaksorn Polthaisong, whose body has not been found, was abducted from her apartment in Bangkok’s Nong Khaem district by at least three men on the night of December 13.

CCTV footage showed the suspected gang’s truck heading toward Kanchanaburi’s Tha Maka district.

The Provincial Court in Bangkok’s Taling Chan district yesterday issued a warrant for Amnuay on charges of hiring others to coerce the victim, illegal detention, premeditated murder and disposing of a body to conceal a crime.

Also wanted on related charges are five men – Niwat Suaythong, 32, Phumithat Phiboonsawat, 24, Chaiyuth Benchat, 41, Panumet Meela, 34, and Samart Saengsin, 50 – and one woman, Kannikar Krumram. Samart is a former policeman based in Kanchanaburi.

Meanwhile, national police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda said suspects would face legal action regardless of how senior they were in the police force if evidence pointed to their guilt. He added that the search for Supaksorn was continuing.

Amnuay was dismissed from the civil service later yesterday, according to Pol Colonel Anuparp Srinuan, acting Ratchaburi police chief. The dismissal order was submitted to the acting Provincial Police Region 7 chief Pol Maj-General Sutthipong Wongpin on the grounds that Amnuay was wanted for a serious crime.