5 arrested over sex slavery in China
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FIVE people suspected of trafficking Thai women into sex slavery in China have been arrested, Thai police said yesterday.
They are also thought to be part of a ring that also trafficked women into Malaysia and Singapore
The arrests come a week after it was decided that Thailand should remain on a United States list of worst human-trafficking centers. The Thai government has said it hoped the US would remove it from the list following a crackdown.
“Thailand is determined to tackle and eliminate human trafficking,” Thai Police Chief Somyot Pumpanmuang told reporters.
In July, Thailand indicted 72 people, including 15 state officials, over suspected links to trafficking after what Thai police described as their biggest investigation into the crime.
Chinese and Thai authorities worked together on the latest case after a Thai woman escaped her captors in Chongqing in China, Somyot said.
The woman told Chinese police that she and three others were forced to have sex with men after being lured to China with the promise of jobs as hostesses through a modelling website.
Thai police arrested four women and a man and had issued warrants for another four suspects, Somyot said. Chinese authorities had also arrested two Chinese nationals suspected of being part of the trafficking ring, the Thai police said.
Police suspect that more than 20 women were trafficked by this ring, said Police Major General Thiti Saengswang, the commander of Thailand’s Anti-Human Trafficking Division.
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