Brokers arrested after terrified workers flee

Three brokers were arrested and sent to Koh Kong court yesterday, charged with trafficking 17 Cambodians to Thailand with the intention of sending them on to another country, officials and victims said.

According to Soa Samnang, 46, he and 16 other villagers, the majority from Andong Teuk commune in Koh Kong’s Botum Sakor district, were lured across the border illegally on the promise of 7,000 Thai baht per month working on an oil ship. …

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