Laotian women arrested for alleged prostitution

Nattapol Klunnuch, the owner of the 25-room boarding house in Siracha district, was also arrested and charged with operating a hotel business without licence.
Nattapol said he knew nothing about the prostitution activities. He simply rented rooms to couples at Bt120 for three hours and Bt450 per night.
The raid was conducted on Tuesday night and was led by Siracha district chief Niti Wiwatnanich.
Niti said he had received a tip-off that a pickup truck was seen bringing a lot of women to a boarding house near Muang Thong Land Market in Tambon Borwin regularly.
The officials found the women were in the age group of 20 to 25. Eight male patrons were present with them at the time of the raid.
A Laotian woman said she had travelled from Vientiane on the invitation of a friend who had come to Chon Buri before her. She was staying with a friend and was paid Bt1,000 for sleeping with a male patron but she had to share Bt300 with her “caretaker”. She said she had no job back home and had been working in the sex trade for four months.