Phuket Airport Officials Unveil How They Caught Their Woman

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Phuket Airport officials unveil how they caught their woman

Phuket Gazette

Col Wannee Songchaisanguan (left) with Capt Suppachai Punkaew (right) question Ms Dujdao, also known as Ms Natthakarn. Photo: Atchaa Khamlo

PHUKET: -- Following the arrest of a woman wanted by authorities in Bangkok for human trafficking charges, Phuket Airport Immigration officers revealed how they caught the suspect before she could fly out of the country.

Phuket Airport Immigration officer Lt Col Wannee Songchaisanguan said that Snr Sgt Maj Wanchai Narin was on duty in the departure hall on September 14 when a woman approached his desk and handed him her Thai passport.

“Sgt Maj Wanchai scanned her passport and was immediately notified of an outstanding arrested warrant. He informed me and we escorted her to the office for questioning,” Col Wannee explained.

Immigration Officers had a problem: the woman in their office, who was intending to travel to Bahrain via the United Arab Emirates that night, was travelling with a passport in the name of Ms Natthakarn. This was at odds with the arrest warrant notification which was for a woman named Dujdao Yarana.

According to the notification, the arrest warrant was issued by the courts on August 29, charging Ms Dujdao with collaboration in human trafficking connected with the sex trade.

“Ms Dujdao denied that she was involved with human trafficking, instead claiming she was a victim of the business. She told us that she was going back to Bahrain to take action against the business operators. However, we contacted the Anti-Human Trafficking Department (AHTD) in Bangkok and they were able to confirm, by her appearance, that we were holding Ms Dujdao,” said Col Wannee.

The AHTD emailed Phuket Airport Immigration officers copies of all the information necessary to positively identify the woman as Ms Dujdao, including the arrest warrant, ID card and certificate detailing her change of name.

“After showing the documents, Ms Dujdao accepted that her photo was on the documents but she still denied the charge,” said Col Wannee.

“Ms Dujdao “Champagne” Yarana was taken at 1.30am to Tah Chat Chai Police Station, where she was met the next day by AHTD officers who escorted her to Bangkok.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...oman-17960.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-09-20

[uptheos]

I'm not really interested in how they caught her, but I am interested in how much jail time she will get (if found guilty)?

[db1tau]

The interesting details are missing: Why did the arrest warrant show up on the computer? Is it linked to the name, picture or other biometric data in the passport, like fingerprints?

[stevenl]

The interesting details are missing: Why did the arrest warrant show up on the computer? Is it linked to the name, picture or other biometric data in the passport, like fingerprints?

Especially since the arrest warrant was for a woman with a different name in her passport. So it must have been other data in her passport.

[chotthee]

National ID number don't change, even if you change your sex.

[stevenl]

National ID number don't change, even if you change your sex.

How can this ID number end up on a passport with a different name?

[Dr Robert]

Do you believe that the immigration authorities would give away intelligence gathering strategies? The story is an iceberg. In my opinion, the motivation to prevent the trafficing of innocent people should supersede polite policing. Fair trial first, and full force of the law if allegations are proven.

[SOTIRIOS]

....2 questions:

1) Why did they let her go, in the first place ?

2) Why is she smiling ?

[Dap]

National ID number don't change, even if you change your sex.

How can this ID number end up on a passport with a different name?

There was a name change certificate so I guess the passport name was changed but the ID number remains the same. Best I could come up with.

[stevenl]

National ID number don't change, even if you change your sex.

How can this ID number end up on a passport with a different name?

There was a name change certificate so I guess the passport name was changed but the ID number remains the same. Best I could come up with.

Thanks. Sounds like an excellent way to draw attention to oneself.

[Semper]

....2 questions:

1) Why did they let her go, in the first place ?

2) Why is she smiling ?

3) Why don't they point their index finger at her?

[Bosse137]

....2 questions:

1) Why did they let her go, in the first place ?

2) Why is she smiling ?

3) Why don't they point their index finger at her?

Perhaps she is smiling because they don`t point their fingers at her...? Edited September 21, 2012 by Bosse137

[Jimi007]

....2 questions:

1) Why did they let her go, in the first place ?

2) Why is she smiling ?

3) Why don't they point their index finger at her?

Good one Semper!

Edited September 21, 2012 by Jimi007

[ALFREDO]

I think the photo in the Passport, her face in the Immigrations desk camera, her photo in the Computers system

and the name in the Passport did not fit together.

Edited September 22, 2012 by ALFREDO