SINGAPORE — A 71-year-old Singaporean businessman was arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on June 2 for allegedly evading more than 5.2 million baht (RM675,000) in taxes, Thai police said.

David Liu, identified as a former director of Isentia Monitoring Services (Thailand), was apprehended by Thailand’s Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD) as he was about to board a flight to Singapore, according to a report published in The Straits Times today.

ECD commander Thatphum Charuprat said Liu is suspected of fraudulently avoiding value-added tax payments during his time as an authorised director of the media analytics company from July to October 2015.

Liu had been appointed Asia CEO of the Sydney-based media intelligence company Isentia on June 1, 2015, according to the firm’s annual report, and left the company in 2019.