CSD opens inquiry into missing pair

       Relatives of a businessman and a newspaper reporter in Nakhon Ratchasima have asked the Crime Suppression Division to investigate their suspected abduction.
       The disappearance of the pair is believed to be linked to a senior police officer.
       Ananwat Atthanapol,45, who is involved in a direct sales business, and reporter Naret Yuwarat are believed to have been abducted by their rivals in a court case.
       Mr Ananwat's nephew, Pasakorn Punnampet, said the people he suspected of abducting the pair might be connected with a senior police officer in the province who is involved in the case.
       The pair have been missing since Sept 9 after appearing at Nakhon Ratchasima Municipal Court where Mr Ananwat was facing an embezzlement charge,Mr Pasakorn said.
       Mr Pasakorn said he lodged a complaint with the CSD because he was unhappy with the progress of a previous complaint filed with police in the province. He said he suspected there might be irregularities in the case and wanted the CSD's help.
       The person who accused Mr Ananwat of embezzlement is reportedly a friend of a police officer with a rank of colonel in Police Region 3, covering the lower Northeast, according to the complaint.
       "My uncle [Mr Ananwat] had told me before his disappearance a senior police officer handling the robbery case threatened to kill him if he didn't submit to the charge," Mr Pasakorn said.
       Mr Ananwat made an appointment on Sept 9 with his lawyer at a shopping mall. While he went to withdraw money from an ATM, someone phoned him,and he left the mall.
       His lawyer said passers-by told him he was forced into a car by a group of men who looked like "plain-clothes police".