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Police find passports, cash after 'gangster' murder in Phuket

Police on Sunday look for more evidence inside and outside the villa on Rawai beach in Phuket where Jimi "Slice" Sandhu stayed before he was murdered on Friday night. (Photo: Achadtaya Chuenniran)

Police on Sunday seized passports and money from the rented villa of an Indian man shot dead on Phuket on Friday night.

Police searched the house rented by Jimi "Slice" Sandhu, 32, at Rawai beach.

Police said they seized two additional passports in the dead man's name, along with two safes — one of them empty and the other containing 700,000 baht in cash.

The villa near the Beachfront Hotel Phuket complex was cordoned off after Sandhu was killed in a car park there around 10.30pm on Friday. Hotel staff alerted police on Saturday morning after discovering the body.

It was not immediately clear why the sound of the gunshots did not prompt an earlier investigation.

Police found a passport with the name of a Canadian of Indian descent, Mandeep Singh, along with a driver's licence on the body. But a Canadian newspaper said his real name was Jimi Sandhu, an Indian national deported from Canada for "serious criminality."

Police believe the murder was due to a conflict over an illegal business.

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