Israeli and Thai police found Ben David Levy, 41, in Bangkok living with his Thai wife and two children; he fled Israel in 2000, seven years after he was convicted of robbery and double murder.
An Israeli man convicted of robbery and a double murder was arrested in Thailand on Tuesday, 11 years after he disappeared from Israeli prison.
Levy Ben-David, 41, was convicted in Israel in 1993 of robbing a jewelry shop and killing the two owners, Danielle and Jacob Himler in Antwerp, Belgium.
Following the murders in 1992, Ben-David fled to Israel with his partners, Israeli citizen Guy Gogeshvili and Belgian citizen Lilian Shterer. The three were subsequently arrested and tried in Israel.
Ben-David was sentenced to two life sentences. He served seven years of his sentence, and in September 2000, during a short vacation from prison, he fled to Thailand, apparently using a fake passport.
He was arrested on Tuesday in an apartment room in Bangkok's Din Daeng district following a joint investigation by Thai police and Asian Pacific Region's Israeli police.
Thai daily The Nation reported that Ben-David had apparently used a fake passport of Maldives nationality under the name of Dmitry Milev to enter Thailand at the time.
Ben-David has since married a Thai woman and has two children.
The Israeli Embassy in Thailand was also involved in the arrest. Ben-David is expected to be extradited back to Israel shortly.
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