A man has asked Crime Suppression Division police to help find his missing daughter, the wife of an Israeli arrested last year for the jealousy-murder of a fellow countryman.
Anand Saeng-urai, 63, accompanied by lawyer Ronnarong Kaewphet, on Friday filed a complaint at the CSD, asking they help locate his daughter Nantiya Saeng-urai.
Nantiya, 38, had lived with her Israeli husband Shimon Biton, 51, who was arrested on charges of killing compatriot Eliyahu Cohen and hiding his dismembered body inside a wall at a house in Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong district last November.
Shimon Biton, an Israeli murder suspect, was caught at a rented house in Nonthaburi in November 2016. (File photo)
Mr Anand said he had filed an earlier complaint with Bang Bua Thong police last year, seeking help finding his daughter. There had been little progress in the case.
During a search of Biton’s house last year, police had seized a computer notebook which they said contained key evidence. However, the messages were written in the Hebrew language and they said they would need help translating it, Mr Anand said.
As there had been no police progress, his hopes of finding his daughter alive had faded.
He had last talked to her in 2015, when she told him Biton had shaved her head and was forcing her to enter a religious sect. Since then, he had heard nothing, Mr Anand said.
He had contacted Biton, who gave him different details whenever he asked about Nantiya’s whereabouts. The Israeli man once told him Nantiya had died of cancer. He did not believe him, and later asked him again about his daughter. This time he told him she had been caught in Laos, said Mr Anand.
CSD police said they had examined the case and seen the "evidence" in the notebook computer. To date, it had not been translated.
Biton was arrested on Nov 12, 2016 after police were asked by the Israeli embassy to search for Cohen, 64, who had been reported missing a few days earlier, on Nov 8, from a condominium in Charan Sanitwong Soi 40 in Bangkok’s Bang Phlat district.
Police investigators examined Biton's house in Bang Bua Thong district and found a dismembered body they believed to be Cohen's in a suitcase hidden by freshly poured concrete.
Biton allegedly told police he killed Cohen out of jealousy after discovering his girlfriend had an intimate relationship with him.
