Bangkok, February 6 (EFE) .- The Thai police have interrogated today's girlfriend Artur Segarra, the prime suspect for the murder of the Catalan executive David Bernat, after the couple was spotted yesterday in a northeastern province border with Cambodia.

The police chief Surin Yossawat Ngamsanga has confirmed to Efe that the authorities took statements from Thai, identified as Pritsana, who, according to another police spokesman, spend the night in custody without charge to help gather more data on the crime.

As for Segarra, it remains fled in a case in which, according to initial police investigations point to a kidnapping with extortion and murder.

The authorities published on Friday several photographs taken by immigration Segarra in some points of entry to the country.

According to the statement Pritsana, collecting local media, the Spanish fled on a motorcycle last night when, while both were dining in a karaoke of the city, was identified by a group of waiters.

Pritsana, 22, and Segarra, 37, a native of Catalonia, had been captured by several security cameras withdrawing cash at ATMs several of the Thai capital and the city of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok.

The first parts of the dismembered body of David Bernat, a Catalan executive missing in Thailand a few weeks ago, were found on Saturday on the Chao Phraya River which flows through Bangkok, and since then have appeared more scattered pieces of the body in the water.

Bernat, about 40 years old and a native of the province of L'Albi (Lleida), was last seen alive on January 20 as he was leaving an apartment in the capital in the company of another western.

Thai police after comparing information and evidence with the Embassy of Spain in Bangkok, explained on Thursday that the missing data coincided with those of the body found.

The forensic evidence suggests that Bernat died from suffocation between 25 and 27 January.

Police General Panya Mamen, chief of the criminal investigation, said yesterday that Artur Segarra, who knew the victim, is "involved in some stage of the murder or perhaps all" during an interview with Efe.

Despite the investigations the authorities have not yet issued an arrest warrant for alleged murder Segarra, although it could be arrested for violating immigration laws to remain in the country with a visa expired since mid-December.

Pritsana, who says was six months out with the suspect, said it was unaware of the criminal charges against her boyfriend, who since January 31 traveled the country in a red Honda motorcycle brand.

Saturday morning, officials found this abandoned in bushes at a point near the Cambodian border vehicle instead.

"It is possible that Artur is still in Thailand and remain hidden in the area (where he was last seen). We have no notice of their departure," he said in a telephone conversation with Efe a spokesman for the group leading the case.

The motive for the macabre crime points to a kidnapping and extortion in order to gain access to bank accounts of the victim.

Police have detected "movements of large amounts of money" from current accounts in Singapore Spanish assassinated to banks in Spain and Thailand, among which could be found Artur account Segarra.

The victim was held somewhere and "forced to make transfers" of money before he was killed, as he told the police.

"When I had no (money) or was not useful, it moved from place to kill and dismember probably in another location. Later they threw the body into the water to erase the evidence," he developed the police leading the investigation

Police believe that "there are many people involved" in the assassination, including foreign and possibly local. EFE