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Thai authorities are now hoping to jump-start the case with an assist from international law enforcement. On Monday, Interpol released a “red notice” for Yoovidhya, the Associated Press reported. The request alerts police departments around the world to arrest the energy drink scion pending extradition.

“We have been informed that Interpol has issued a Red Notice on the Red Bull heir, and we now have to wait to see what kind of responses we get from member countries,” Thai police spokesman Col. Krissana Pattanacharoen told the AP. “We have been working on this case and pursuing it using all means, and this Red Notice is what we can do when we believe that it’s possible that he is hiding in foreign countries.”

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But time is key. The statute of limitations expired earlier this year on one of the charges Yoovidhya faces; the clock on another is set to give out Sept. 3.

The Red Bull empire starts with Chaleo Yoovidhya, Vorayuth Yoovidhya’s grandfather. Born to Chinese immigrants in northern Thailand, Chaleo first worked as a duck farmer and bus driver before founding a pharmaceutical company in 1962 to manufacture antibiotics and vitamins. One of his products — Krating Daeng or “red bull” — was an energy-boasting syrup popular with “day labourers, weary long-haul truckers and rickshaw drivers,” as The Washington Post reported in 2012.

In 1982, one of those drinks landed in the hands of Dietrich Mateschitz, an Austrian toothpaste salesman who was in Thailand on business. He persuaded Chaleo to team up with him, and in 1987 the pair launched the modern Red Bull, complete with the carbonation and signature slim can.