Two Chinese nationals were nabbed on a JetStar Asia flight from Singapore to Jakarta on June 13 for allegedly stealing cash from multiple passengers.

One of the passengers — a Benedict Sulaiman — who had his cash stolen shared the entire incident on Facebook, and commended the crew of JetStar Asia as well as the Indonesian immigration and airport security officers for capturing the suspects.

Suspicious behaviour

On the flight itself, Benedict started to get suspicious of two passengers in 17D and 11C (that's six rows apart).

He wrote that they acted strange, almost like they were "coordinating".

Benedict himself was seated on 16D — just a row in front of one of passenger 17D.

17D then stood and opened the overhead compartment in front of Benedict, which happened to be where the latter's backpack was stored.

17D claimed that he was retrieving a pen from his luggage, which was apparently in the same compartment.

Singapore dollars gone, other valuables intact

However, Benedict had a strange feeling about it, and so took his bag and checked it.

As in turned out, the Singapore dollars in his wallet were gone. The rest of his valuables — phone, wallet, and rupiah — were intact.

He then talked to a flight attendant named Devin, who immediately conveyed the message to the flight manager, Lena.

The alleged victim voiced his suspicions about 11C and 17D.

Minutes later, the flight attendant returned and revealed that another passenger was also suspicious of 11C.

The suspect had apparently been opening several other bags.

Witnesses and suspects escorted out of aircraft

Upon landing, the witnesses and suspects were escorted out of aircraft.

The captain had ordered passengers to remain seated.

Airport security then searched the suspects and found on them currencies from UAE, China, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil.

Clippers and pedicure devices were also found, but not the allegedly stolen money.

At this point, the other passengers were allowed to disembark, while the team continued searching the aircraft — including the lavatory bins.

Finally, the airport security team found the money, folded with the emergency instruction card underneath seat 11C.

Benedict deduced that 17D had passed the money to 11C to avoid detection.

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Denied knowing each other

During the investigations, both suspects denied knowing each other.

However, Benedict mentioned that it was "quite clear" they were communicating in the interrogation room, before they were separated.

According to a testimony (although it's unclear whose), the alleged suspects did not take gadgets like phones and tablets as those were easily traceable.

They also had tickets to Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.

Airport security then said that such cases are regular occurrences, although they usual take place on long haul flights instead of short ones.

In the end, the airport security and immigration officers took over the case.

Sulaiman then thanked the crew of flight 3K205 and warned everyone else to be careful.

Top image from Benedict Sulaiman's Facebook post