Authorities dismiss Thai woman’s ‘organ harvesting’ allegation

In the latest of implausible tales, both the Foreign Affairs Ministry and Preah Sihanouk Provincial police chief yesterday dismissed the “organ harvesting gang” story given by the so-called victim to Thai police, claiming that it was staged to gain sympathy.

First reported by Thailand- based news website The Thai Examiner, a 25-year-old Thai woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, told Thai police that she almost fell victim to a Chinese organ harvesting ring in Cambodia after being tricked into working illegally.

One of the eight Thai illegal immigrants who were deported from Cambodia and received by the Thai police on Wednesday at Sa Kaeo province, the woman reportedly said she was forced by the scammer to  work for a “Chinese-operating call centre”, and when she refused to work, she was confined without food and even tortured.