Women freed from sex shop

Officials of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) rescued eight young Vietnamese women from forced prostitution at a karaoke shop in a hotel in Betong district of Yala province yesterday.

DSI deputy director-general Narat Sawetanant said DSI officials rescued eight Vietnamese women aged 17-21 from Kiss Me karaoke shop in Holiday Hill Hotel on Phakdi Road in Betong district, Yala.

Pol Col Narat, who is also the DSI spokesman, said the women were confined on the second floor of the karaoke shop and were forced into prostitution.

DSI officials also arrested Lang Chunhui, a 46-year-old Chinese, with a list of aliens, three bank books and a notebook recording wage payments.

She was suspected of being a procurer at the karaoke shop which is believed to be a front for prostitution.

The DSI is working on the return of the eight Vietnamese women with the Vietnamese embassy in Thailand.

Pol Col Narat said the raid at the hotel in Yala was launched at the request of Vietnamese police who had approached their Thai counterparts through the Vietnamese embassy in Thailand.

Previously,Vietnamese police had arrested a gang of human traffickers in Vietnam and learned that Vietnamese women had been lured into forced prostitution in Thailand.

Human traffickers kept the passports of their Vietnamese victims and forced the women into prostitution.

The people who ran the karaoke shop are ethnic-Chinese Malaysians.

DSI police are looking for three more suspects who are believed to be involved.

Pol Col Narat added that officials at the Lao embassy in Thailand had also asked the DSI to rescue Lao women lured to forced prostitution in Thailand.

(Bangkok Post)



An imported business now?

Good work by the police... I hope that the person who organized this will go to jail for a long time...