Kvalka, who surrendered to police on Koh Samui on Saturday (December 8) has denied taking part in the murder itself but today took police through the various parts of the aftermath in which he was involved.
Asked how he and prime suspect Moshe David came to be inside the house where the murder took place, he explained, “I and Mr David drove around this area [several days before] with a lady who accompanied him, looking for a house to rent.”
On the day of the murder, he said, he went to the house in his car. “I saw Mr David and Mr Reisz in [another] car. They went into the house together, so I followed them in.”
Police excluded reporters from the murder house, so details of how the murder itself was carried out were not made public.
However, Kvalka then went with police to the rubber plantation where Mr Reisz’s body, wrapped in plastic bin bags, was dumped.
Asked how this particular site had been chosen, Kvalka said, “Mr David saw this way [into the rubber plantation] when we were looking for the house to rent.”
He said that on the night of the murder, after the corpse had been loaded into the back of Mr Reisz’s own Toyota Vigo pickup truck, Kvalka and David drove it to the rubber plantation in Bang Thong, about five kilometres from the murder scene.
Police noted that the entrance to the plantation was blocked with a gate made of a single horizontal pole, padlocked shut.
Asked how they got through this, Kvalka said, “Mr David had a tool box in the [pickup truck]. He took a pair of bolt cutters from it and used them to cut the padlock.”
Police asked how the toolbox and bolt cutters came to be in Mr Reisz’s truck. Kvalka said he did not know.
He then admitted, “I helped Mr David to throw the body away.” Police had him reenact this action, using a filled black plastic bag, and with the help of a police officer holding the other end.
Kvalka added that, after they had thrown the body into a brush-filled depression in the ground, “The body was not deep enough [into the bushes]. So, Mr David went down there and moved the body again [to hide it better].”
The reenactment over, Kvalka was taken back to his cell in Tung Thong Police Station.