Police chief warns station commanders
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Police chief General Somyos Pumpanmuang has told police stations that their commander and his deputies will be investigated if an outside agency conducts a karaoke bar raid in search of human traffickers in their jurisdiction, police spokesman Lt-General
On Friday night, a raid by combined forces on a karaoke bar in Pathum Thani’s Thanyaburi district resulted in the rescue of 10 women (nine Laotians and one Vietnamese) – two of whom were aged under 18 – and the arrest of the bar’s owner, Jutharat Sridech, 37. Six account books, which allegedly document bribe payments to state officials, were seized in the raid, a source reported.
Counter Human Trafficking Unit president Ronnasit Proekasayajivahas said the raid stemmed from a compliant by a Laotian mother whose 13-year-old daughter was detained because the mother, who owed the bar owner Bt40,000, couldn’t procure Laotian girls to help repay the debt.
