Warrants out for gang in movement of illegal Chinese/Malaysians stopped in Chumphon

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Picture: New Na

 

Naew Na reported on the latest press briefing at Immigration HQ yesterday fronted by IB chief Pol Lt-Gen Sompong "Big Oud" Chingduang.

 

The chief was commenting on a joint operation by Chumphon provincial police, Lamae station officers and Region 6 immigration after a checkpoint in Lamae stopped a suspicious van with Phuket plates.

 

It was driven by Thanatkorn, 47, a Thai national and inside were four Chinese nationals and two Malaysians. Four had passports but no stamps and two had no passports. 

 

The driver was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration and the rest were detained for illegal entry. 

 

It emerged from inquiries that the driver had been paid 3,300 baht to move the illegals from a hotel in Hat Yai, Songkhla to the Rama 2 area of Bangkok. 

 

The money and evidentiary trail soon led to Prasit who paid the Thai driver the money, Prasit's son Pawit, Jiraphan at the hotel who booked in the illegals, Baraheng who drove them from the Malaysian border, a go-between called Uthai, a Mrs Yan who is from Myanmar and her adopted daughter Suthisa.

 

Arrest warrants are now out for all concerned. 

 

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[hotchilli]

Thailand still in the thick of trafficking.

[Pedrogaz]

What is with this <deleted> of calling these useless bureaucrats by name like Big Joke, Big Too and Big Out? Grow up you "reporters".

[impulse]

$110 for a 12 hour drive.  Ostensibly, through a bunch of checkpoints.  I hope that was per head...

 

[ChipButty]

13 minutes ago, impulse said:

$110 for a 12 hour drive.  Ostensibly, through a bunch of checkpoints.  I hope that was per head...

 

Exactly my thoughts and more than a 12 hour drive from Hat Yai not a good time to be doing something dodgy