Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Fugitive Red Bull Heir in Thai Hit and Run

Soon after the crash, Mr. Vorayuth’s family paid the police officer’s family nearly $100,000 in compensation. Mr. Vorayuth resumed his jet-set lifestyle, traveling around the world on private Red Bull jets, keeping a Porsche in London and staying in luxury hotels.

After much public outrage over the decision to drop the case, the police reversed themselves in August, saying they had obtained new information and would reopen it. Colonel Kissana declined to discuss the new evidence, saying, “According to the law, if we receive new evidence, we are entitled to reopen the case.”

He said Interpol issued the red notice on Wednesday. It has gone out to the international police agency’s other 193 member countries requesting help in locating Mr. Vorayuth, but the agency has yet to receive any new information on his whereabouts. Interpol previously issued a red notice for the Red Bull heir, but it did not lead to his arrest and was canceled after the Thai police dropped the case in July.

The collision that killed the police officer, Wichean Glanprasert, occurred just before dawn in September 2012. The driver fled the scene, but a trail of leaking engine fluid led the police to Mr. Vorayuth’s door and to a damaged Ferrari nearby.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/world/asia/thailand-red-bull-heir-vorayuth-yoovidhaya-interpol.html