Trafficker gets 10 years
The manager of Giant Ocean International, a now-defunct recruitment firm notorious for abuse scandals, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in jail for trafficking hundreds of Cambodian fishermen to work in slave-like conditions overseas. Taiwanese national Lin Yu-shin, who ran the firm, was arrested in May last year in Siem Reap, where she was in hiding under a different name. Anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection police tracked her down after receiving nearly 170 complaints that Lin’s company sold Cambodian fishermen into slavery, promising them lucrative jobs in Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan, but sending them instead to work up to 24-hour unpaid days on vessels primarily in Africa between 2009-2011. …
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Laignee Barron
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