Suspected migrant traffickers were arrested in Tak as they brought in five Chinese nationals from Myanmar’s Myawaddy town yesterday.
Col Natthakorn Ruantib, deputy chief of staff of Naresuan Task Force, was leading police officers and soldiers during a patrol in Mae Ramat district yesterday when they found five Chinese nationals — four men and one woman — brought in by Phakoe Natheesaithan, deputy village head in the district, and three other men.
The media said the task force found suspicious vehicles on the edge of a forest behind a village and saw that two pickup trucks had no licence plates. All the suspects were taken to be tested for Covid-19 at a hospital.
According to investigators, one suspect said they were hired to smuggle Chinese nationals from the Myanmar border in Mae Sot district at 12,000 baht per trip. The investigators noted that the Chinese…
