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Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha urged the police to coordinate efforts with Interpol to execute the international arrest warrant against the heir to the Red Bull company accused of killing an agent in Bangkok in 2012.
The chief executive requested that, if detained abroad, Vorayuth Toovidhya, 35, be extradited to Thailand to be tried for “dangerous driving” under “the effect of illicit substances”, having caused the death of one person.
Prayut said he expected to receive news of the “red alert” to Interpol in less than a week.
At the end of August, a Thai court issued a new order against Vorayuth following popular outrage at the prosecution’s dismissal of the case in June.
Social discontent pressured the authorities to resume the investigation.
Vorayuth is one of the grandsons of Chaleo Yoovidhya, founder of the Krating Daeng (Red Bull) company in Thailand who partnered with Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz to launch the beverage brand internationally in 1987.
On September 3, 2012, Vorayuth was driving a black Ferrari through the streets of Bangkok at dawn when he collided with the motorcycle driven by Wichean Kilinprasert, a 47-year-old policeman, who was dragged 100 meters.
Vorayuth fled after the accident.
According to investigations, the vehicle was traveling at 177 kilometers per hour in an area in the center of the Thai capital.
Wichean died at the scene, and the motorcycle oil trail led police to the Yoovidhya family residence, who initially stated that the car would be driven by the “Vorayuth assistant and driver.”
The Red Bull heir later acknowledged that he was driving the Ferrari and that tests conducted at the time showed that he was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol.
Authorities promised to take Vorayuth to court, but the defendant dismissed the subpoena on eight occasions, and a search warrant was therefore issued in April 2017, when the billionaire was abroad.
The presentation of the case against the heir of the company unleashed a wave of indignation throughout the country, forcing the government to activate a commission of inquiry that ordered the reopening of the case.
The prosecutor responsible for the presentation resigned and some 20 police officers involved in the investigation face sanction or expulsion from the corporation.
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