Following a tip-off that a sedan carrying illegal workers would pass through Sa Kaew to Chon Buri, Sa Kaew Immigration Police chief Pol Colonel Benjapol Rodsawat led a team of police officers and district officials in a stake-out until they spotted a vehicle that fitted the given description. They chased the vehicle and intercepted it.

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Officers arrested the driver, Apiyuth Yenkhan, 49, and rounded up the eight Cambodians, who reportedly confessed that they paid Bt2,000 each to a gang to smuggle them into Thailand so they could find jobs. 
The Cambodians will also face legal action.

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Police arrest alleged people smuggler in Sa Kaew

A Phitsanulok man was arrested for smuggling eight undocumented Cambodian people in his sedan in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district on Sunday morning.