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BANGKOK – Mark Cheng Jin Quan was supposed to be on a one-day trip to Thailand on Jan 9, but he ended up being held captive, drugged and tortured, in a kidnapping that was allegedly masterminded by his travelling companion, fellow Singaporean Kim Lee Yao Wei.
“I was shocked. I thought we were good,” the 32-year-old said, referring to Lee.
He spoke to The Straits Times in a phone interview four days after he managed to escape his captors. He said he was in a safe house provided by Thai police on Tuesday (Jan 14).
It never struck him that Lee would be the mastermind behind his ordeal and he only learnt this from the Thai police later on. “I thought he was kidnapped too,” Cheng said.
His trip had started normally enough. He and Lee arrived in Bangkok on the morning of Jan 9, and took a Grab taxi from Suvarnabhumi airport to meet a contact of Lee’s for a “social visit”.
“I didn’t know where we were going. I trusted him completely. We were on a trip together before,” said Cheng, a former blockchain adviser with Singapore fintech company X Infinity.
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