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BANGKOK: Police in Thailand have arrested an Indonesian who allegedly defrauded Americans of about USD10 million, Thai authorities said Sunday, adding that they will extradite him to the United States.
The 33-year-old Indonesian man was arrested on Friday at a luxury resort in the coastal town of Phuket after a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Suriya Poungsombat of the national immigration police told AFP.
The FBI had informed Thai authorities that the suspect left Dubai and travelled to the Southeast Asian nation on Wednesday, according to Suriya.
After his arrest, the man was sent to an immigration detention centre in the capital Bangkok and was awaiting extradition to the United States, he said.
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