K&R database cleanup: handoff bundle

Self-contained bundle to continue the case-summary enrichment pass (70/256 done). sources/ holds the 364 .txt dossiers; scripts use relative paths.

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merge-output/staging/385/01_bangkokpost-com.txt

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+Bangkok Post - Police imposters arrested for abducting Chinese man for ransom
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+Police imposters arrested for abducting Chinese man for ransom
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+Two men have been arrested on charges of posing as policemen and kidnapping a Chinese man for 2-million-baht ransom in Greater Bangkok.
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+Watcharapol Pimpila, 24, and Japing sae Liu, 23, were taken into custody from two rooms on the third floor of a hotel on Pracharat Bampen Road in Huai Khwang district, Bangkok, on Tuesday evening, according to the Metropolitan Police Bureau.
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+In Mr Japing's room police also found the 25-year-old Chinese abductee, Lyu Chenglong. Police said Mr Japing can speak Chinese.
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+In Mr Watcharapol's room police also seized an air gun, a stun gun and a pair of handcuffs.
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+Mr Lyu told police he was kidnapped by the two suspects and other Thai men from the 14 Residence Hotel on Suksawat 66 Road in Phra Pradaeng district, Samut Prakan, on Monday night. His abductors claimed to be police from the Central Investigation Bureau and accused him of being a scammer.
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+He said his kidnappers demanded he as a relative in China to pay a ransom in a cryptocurrency worth about 2 million baht.
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+The victim called his elder brother in China, and jr paid part of the ransom, worth about 400,000 baht, in two transactions early Tuesday morning. The brother then asked another Thai man to file a complaint with real police, and the complaint led to the raid in Huai Khwang.
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+The suspects were charged with kidnapping and with impersonating police.
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merge-output/staging/385/index.json

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