A 36-year-old Taiwanese man surnamed Lin went missing in the tourist town of Pattaya, Thailand, during the annual Songkran Festival, commonly known as the Water Festival, which attracts tourists from around the world. Lin was found by local police in a hospital after being missing for three days. Initially, the incident was reported by Thai media as a result of a drunken argument with his girlfriend, but Lin revealed the true story after returning to Taiwan.
Lin stated in an interview that he did not simply disappear due to being drunk, but rather suspected that he was set up, drugged, and controlled by his Thai girlfriend and a Taiwanese friend who was traveling with them. He even feared he was almost sold for his organs, describing the whole ordeal as something out of a movie.
Originally in Thailand for business, Lin was with his Thai girlfriend hosting a Taiwanese male friend whom he had recently met. He mentioned that the three of them were drinking together at a guesthouse when he suddenly felt weak and powerless after consuming alcohol. He was taken to a hospital, injected with an unknown substance, and his condition deteriorated rapidly.
Later, he was moved to a place resembling a hospice room where his hands and feet were bound, restricting his freedom. Lin suspected that someone tampered with his drink, but he lacked direct evidence of who drugged him, only relying on his recollections and the situation at the scene to suspect the involvement of the Taiwanese friend and Thai girlfriend.
During his time in the Thai hospital, he overheard hospital staff mentioning phrases like “heart transplant,” fueling his suspicions that his organs were the target. While the public believed he was “missing” during this time, local authorities and the hospital seemed to know his whereabouts.
He disclosed that while under control, someone from Taiwan requested a transfer of approximately NT$2-3 million. Fortunately, a Taiwanese friend flew to Thailand to find him after learning from a police station about his location in a particular hospital. The incident became publicized through contact with Thai media, leading the hospital to release him the next day.
Upon returning to Taiwan on the 19th, Lin was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, showing bruises on his legs and marks resembling restraints on his body. Lin urged fellow citizens to be vigilant when traveling abroad to avoid falling into unknown traps. The incident is currently Lin’s account alone, with attention from the public on how Thai authorities, the hospital, and related parties will respond and whether investigations will follow.
Regarding the shocking allegations, renowned Taiwanese forensic expert Gao Dacheng analyzed that the event “very likely” could be true. According to reports from Taiwan, on April 23, Gao Dacheng asserted in an interview that Lin’s ordeal of being targeted for organ harvesting is “very likely.”
He explained that organ trafficking is a highly profitable business, with organ trafficking groups often colluding with hospitals to deceive individuals into the hospital by drugging them or giving them sleeping pills, preventing them from leaving until their organs are extracted, regardless of whether they survive or not.
Gao mentioned that in China, the organ transplant market is huge, and many illegal groups will send individuals to Thailand and then to Cambodia to harvest organs to avoid detection. He also noted that the Chinese government reportedly collects blood samples from students below senior high school level to build a database for organ matching. If a high-ranking official in the Chinese Communist Party experiences health issues, they may forcibly conduct organ transplants using the data from the database, leading to numerous cases of unexplained disappearances and deaths of children every year in China.
Similarly, a freshman female student named Xiaoyang (pseudonym) from a university in Guangdong was invited by a female “friend” to attend the Songkran Festival in Thailand. She flew from Guangzhou to Bangkok on April 10 but was immediately controlled upon arrival and later sold to a telecommunications scam ring in Myanmar.
Xiaoyang’s father has paid over 200,000 RMB in ransom, but the traffickers refuse to release her. After the media exposed the incident, the traffickers stated they could release her but demanded the reports to be retracted. As of the 23rd afternoon, her father mentioned that they had preliminarily agreed to release her but hesitated to provide exact details of her whereabouts as negotiations for her safe return continue.
Translated and rewritten based on a news article from New Tang Dynasty titled “Taiwanese Man Suspected to Have Been Drugged in Thailand, Shockingly Reveals Nearly Being Harvested for Organs.”