DSI forwards “Victoria Secret” human trafficking case file to state prosecutors for court trial

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DSI forwards “Victoria Secret” human trafficking case file to state prosecutors for court trial

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Monday submitted it’s lengthy case file of human trafficking that was relevant to Victoria Secret massage parlour to the Office of the Attorney-General to pursue legal action against all 45 suspects involved.

 

Key suspect in the case is Mr Kamphol Veerathepsuporn, the proprietor of Victoria Secret, is still at large.

 

The case file, which was consisted of 17,000-page investigation report and contained in 13 boxes, was brought by DSI’s director of Human Trafficking Case Subdivision Pol Lt Col Supatra Thamtanarak to the OAG for prosecution.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/dsi-forwards-victoria-secret-human-trafficking-case-file-state-prosecutors-court-trial/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-02

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DSI submits evidence of Victoria’s human trafficking involving 45 suspects

By Kesinee Taengkhiao 
The Nation

 

Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers on Monday morning submitted to public prosecutors 72 files comprising 17,000 pages of findings from their investigation of human trafficking and procuring women, including from neighbouring countries, for prostitution linked to the Bangkok-based Victoria’s: The Secret Forever massage parlour.
 

Prostitution allegedly also involved minors working as sex workers.

 

Pol Lt-Colonel Supat Thamthanarug, director of the DSI’s Bureau of Human Trafficking Crime, led officers to deliver the case report to the Office of the Attorney-General on Chaeng Wattana Road in Bangkok at 9am.

 

The deputy attorney-general for Trafficking in Persons Litigation, Bodin Saensadee, said the case related to the second part of the DSI’s investigation into the massage parlour for offences committed in Thailand involving 45 suspects.

 

The suspects are staff members and others charged with conspiring to commit human trafficking and other offences related to procuring women as sex workers.

 

Bodin said the Attorney-General would set up a team to consider the case so a decision on an indictment could be rendered before the suspects’ final detention period expires on Thursday.

 

Last Friday, DSI officers submitted the first report in the case, requesting public prosecutors to indict seven suspects, including the parlour’s owner, Kampol Weerathepsuporn, 61, whose whereabouts are unknown, and six other alleged accomplices.

 

Supat said Kampol faced an arrest warrant but was believed to have fled the country without going through an immigration checkpoint. Authorities are trying to locate him and pursue his extradition.

 

The DSI and military raided the massage parlour in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district in January and detained more than 80 women and girls suspected of working as prostitutes. At least 11 of the suspects were later found to be under 18.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30342273

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-02

[grumbleweed]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

17,000-page investigation report and contained in 13 boxes,

Nice to see they're pioneering bleeding edge technology

...and no doubt everything will be in triplicate

 

Why store everything on disc when you can destroy a medium sized forest?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I see neither of these news reports identifies who most of the suspects facing charges are, and more specifically, whether any of them are police, Revenue Department officials, or other government employees, such as those alleged to have received free or discounted "services."