Pattaya police chief demoted after trafficked woman’s death

Pattaya’s police chief was demoted today after apparently failing to help a trafficked Kyrgryz woman who sought help before her death. 

Col. Kulchat Kulchai this morning was transferred to an inactive post after Anara Seitaleva, a 30-year-old woman from Kyrgyzstan, fell to her death Friday from a condominium in the seaside enclave famous for its high rate of crime. Police also found roughly THB10,000 in bank notes scattered around her body.

A few days before her death, Seitaleva had gone to the police for help, saying a “Chinese gang” had lured into prostitution in Thailand instead of the tourism-related job she was promised.

The local court approved warrants for the arrest of three alleged human traffickers from China and Hong Kong – Nin Wai Siu, 48; Song Qianli, 32; and Rou Li, 27.

Police also detained a Chinese man identified as Wang Lang, who’s…