1. Mieraili was arrested during a raid at a residence in east Bangkok late last month during which an assortment of bombmaking equipment and fake travel documents were also seized.
2. Mieraili said that Izan was the ringleader of the bomb plot — the one who organized its execution and assigned roles to his accomplices before fleeing the country. He is now “one of the foremost wanted individuals” in the investigation
Izan is the latest addition to the Thai police’s shortlist of elusive individuals potentially responsible for the bombing.
Authorities regularly refer a “main suspect,” though the subject of the designation changes frequently. Nearly a month after the attack, the man who planted the bomb itself is still at large, and no larger group had publicly claimed responsibility for the devastation of one of Bangkok’s busiest commercial districts.