Hundreds of illegal workers apprehended
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Para-military rangers and police joined forces to crackdown on a major supplier of illegal workers in Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district and rounded up 408 Cambodian workers - 336 males and 72 females - before they were transported to employers yesterday.
The authorities are looking for the Thai investor behind the crime.
Burapha Task Force commander Maj-General Srisak Poonprasit said that after an investigation discovered that Cambodians were smuggled into the Kingdom and transported in a wooded area in Tambon Tha Kham, he assigned the Paramilitary Ranger Company 12 to work with Klong Leuk police to capture illegal workers and their agents.
The team destroyed a makeshift bamboo bridge on the Huai Phrom Hod canal that allowed the Cambodians to cross into the Thai side. Officers have also been assigned to guard the area.
The undocumented workers told police that they looked for jobs in Thailand by paying a Bt2,000 fee per head to agents, who provided pick-up trucks or ban rides for them to go to labour jobs in Bangkok and the central and eastern regions.
They claimed some 1,000 Cambodians had been transported previously.
