Bangkok, Aug. 23- "Big Joke" has ordered to expand the results of arresting a network of smuggling illegal foreign workers into the city. After an accident, a truck carrying workers lost control overturned, killing 4, injuring 6 people, ready to coordinate with the Myanmar authorities to hunt for another big broker and order the penalty. Superintendent along the border Smuggling foreign workers
From the case on June 1, the past There was a van that smuggled migrant workers overturned. While escaping the arrest of the authorities engulf the fire 4 people killed in car wreck, 6 injured in Asian road accident The parallel lane diverts to Phaholyothin Road. Inbound to Bangkok 1st kilometer marker, Bang Pa-in District, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province
Most recently, Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakpal, Deputy Commissioner of Police, ordered the expansion of the arrest of the network smuggling illegal foreign workers into the city both at origin and destination. Which after the incident, the investigative series has a retrospective examination Previously, foreign workers were intercepted in the area. Muang Nakhon Sawan Police Station, Bang Pa-In Police Station, Phra Inracha Police Station On the day of the accident, it was found that the aforementioned procession had prepared 6 labor vans and 3 other guiding vehicles to inspect the route without checkpoints, a total of 9 vehicles, serving to transport migrant workers from the Myanmar border to Ban Tak District, province. .Tak to send to various points in Bangkok and its vicinity
and from examining the behavior found to be the same network There is a division of duties such as brokers on the Myanmar side, brokers on the Thai side, cross-border transport groups, car procurement groups, labor delivery drivers groups, account/deposit groups. Most of them come to work in factories in the central region. So there is an investigation Gathering evidence and issuing arrest warrants for all 18 people involved, 16 people have been charged with charges, and the other 2 people are 1 youth and 1 person has died, with the division of duties. As for the other important accused, Mrs. Por Ku Thu, was found to be a Myanmar broker. This is the starting point for recruiting workers in Myanmar to send the movement across the border to Thailand. In the process of coordinating with the Myanmar authorities to arrest and prosecute
The 16 people involved in the prosecution with both Mr. Wichian head of the Thai movement who contacted and ordered a group of van drivers to transport illegal alien workers this time and is also a coordinator with a group of migrant workers smuggled across from the Myanmar side through natural channels Before coming to deliver at the point where Mr. Wichian ordered When the van catchers have successfully delivered illegal foreign workers to various points, Mr. Wichian will have people in the house deposit their wages with the car procurement group. to distribute to the next van driver In which smuggling has been reported in such a manner many times, from the inspection of Mr. Wichian's house in Ban Tak District, Tak Province, there are still many trucks and trucks. A garage was built specifically for changing spare tires. Therefore, it is believed to be used to smuggle reports along the border. ready to order Superintendent along the border If neglected, there will be smuggling of foreign workers fleeing along the border.
Pol. Gen. Surachet said that this movement has been found guilty many times before. By instructing the police to speed up the expansion further that Is anyone else involved in this movement? Including speeding up the suppression of this group of human traffickers and foreign workers Because Thailand has not yet been promoted to Tier One. According to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report of the United States Department of State. Because it is still found that Thailand has been used to transport migrant workers from neighboring countries continuously.
Preliminarily reported 3 charges: jointly participating in a transnational criminal organization, jointly bringing or bringing aliens into the Kingdom or act in any way that supports or assists or facilitates aliens entering the Kingdom, jointly knowing that any alien enters the Kingdom in violation of the law to stay Conceal or assist in any act in order for aliens to result from arrest.-Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency