Man arrested for alleged attempt to smuggle 18 Cambodians

By The Nation

 

A Bangkok van driver who was involved in a car case with authorities in Sa Kaew on Saturday morning has been arrested for carrying 18 undocumented Cambodian migrants as passenegrs.

 

The van driven by Montree Singhanart, 48, from Bangkok, was spotted on a border road in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district by district officials and rangers at a road checkpoint.

 

Officials said the van refused to stop and sped towards the downtown area of Aranyaprathet. The driver tried to flee down several sois but the van was eventually blocked by official vehicles.

 

The officials found 12 men and six women in the van, all of them Cambodians without travel documents.

Montree claimed he was hired by a businessman, whose name he did not know, to pick up the Cambodians from a border spot in Aranyaprathet and deliver them to Bangkok.

 

The Cambodians said they had no documents, so they paid a Cambodian broker between Bt2,500 and Bt3,000 each to smuggle them into Thailand to work in Bangkok.

 

Montree and the 18 Cambodians were taken to Aranyaprathet police station.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30341661

 

 

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This POS, Montree should be required to repay those poor, gullible Cambodians he was driving and then claim back off the business man he says he did not know. 

 

18 Cambodians, tut tut, what's the legal limit ?

41 minutes ago, ukrules said:

18 Cambodians, tut tut, what's the legal limit ?

They must have been hanging over the edge of the pick-up, not sitting down. Then they wouldn't have been stopped.

 

On 3/24/2018 at 10:20 PM, bluesofa said:

They must have been hanging over the edge of the pick-up, not sitting down. Then they wouldn't have been stopped.

 

If you had 'really' read the OP story..... you would have seen that they were in a VAN...... Not a pickup................

27 minutes ago, sawadeeken said:

If you had 'really' read the OP story..... you would have seen that they were in a VAN...... Not a pickup................

So you're saying driving a Van was the problem ??

15 hours ago, jethro69 said:

So you're saying driving a Van was the problem ??

What are you drinking??????????

The OP stated that the 'illegals' were in a van........ That is the main story........ Did you even read it???????

THEN............ Somebody (Won't mention his name but it is just a couple posts above) who didn't read the OP either posted this .................

 

"They must have been hanging over the edge of the pick-up, not sitting down. Then they wouldn't have been stopped."...........

 

So thought that he should know it was a Van.... Not a Pickup............. How do you read that as me saying the "Van was the Problem"

I'm getting somewhat used to it here on TV...... Posters with their mouth in motion but their Brain in Neutral........ As in this case here......... 

Re-read the past few comments (when you're awake and sober) and see if you can't fit the puzzle together.......... LOL...........