Thailand will prosecute 72 people, including Army General Manas Kongpan,who engaged in a trans-national human trafficking ring, said spokesmanof the Office of the Attorney General Wanchai Roujanavong on July 24.
The suspects—indicted with 16 counts of humantrafficking, trans-national criminal activity and violations of officialduty—will be tried at a court in Songkhla province where dozens ofbodies, said to be the ring’s victims, were unearthed.
Talking with the media in Bangkok, Wanchai emphasised that Thailandwill not hold influential people rise above the law.
The case is a priority of the Thai judicial sector as it has causedserious impact on the country’s reputation, he added.
The sweeping investigation began after 33 bodies, believed to bemigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, were exhumed from various junglecamps near the Thai-Malaysian border, the Bangkok Post reported.-VNA
The suspects—indicted with 16 counts of humantrafficking, trans-national criminal activity and violations of officialduty—will be tried at a court in Songkhla province where dozens ofbodies, said to be the ring’s victims, were unearthed.
Talking with the media in Bangkok, Wanchai emphasised that Thailandwill not hold influential people rise above the law.
The case is a priority of the Thai judicial sector as it has causedserious impact on the country’s reputation, he added.
The sweeping investigation began after 33 bodies, believed to bemigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, were exhumed from various junglecamps near the Thai-Malaysian border, the Bangkok Post reported.-VNA
