A 45 year old Thai woman, known as Jay Phet, has been arrested, along with several Burmese accomplices and nearly 400 of the trafficked migrants. She was arrested for acquiring illegal Burmese migrants, getting them over the border… undetected, and then sending them to the Central Seafood Markets along the coast of Samut Sakhon province, just south west of Bangkok.
The Royal Thai Police claim that Jay Phet was running the biggest human-smuggling network supplying illegal Burmese migrants.
She is being named as the key culprit behind the latest outbreak which was first detected on December 20.
Jay Phet and some of the alleged accomplices are now in detention at the Bang Kwang Central Prison in Bangkok.
The Pathum Thani Provincial Governor has ordered the lock down of two markets and nine commercial buildings until February 25….
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