DSI arrested Thai agent deceiving Thai women for forced prostitution in Dubai

DSI arrested Thai agent deceiving Thai women for forced prostitution in Dubai

       Yesterday (March 2, 2022), the DSI by its Human Trafficking Crime Bureau and Surveillance and Intelligence Division arrested a Thai female alleged offender in the area of Chachoengsao Province wanted on the Criminal Court’s arrest warrant in the special case no. 42/2563, the case of Thai women lured into forced prostitution in the United Arab Emirates. The said alleged offender committed crime as a gang of luring Thai women for foreigners in the United Arab Emirates. The circumstance was the detention for forced prostitution at a sexual hidden massage parlour or a brothel regarded as the offence of conspiracy by agreeing between two persons or more to commit an offence of human trafficking and by jointly committed by three persons or more for unlawfully exploiting from prostitution by procuring, buying, selling, vending, bringing from or sending to, detaining, confining, harbouring, or receipt of any person by threatening, forcing, kidnapping, defrauding, swindling, abusing of power, etc.

       The said case resulted from the Human Trafficking Crime Bureau of the DSI receiving a contact from the Royal Thai Consulate General, Dubai, United Arab Emirates informing about Thai women lured into forced prostitution in the United Arab Emirates. From the fact, it appeared that Thai women were detained and confined, and their passports were confiscated for ransom and forces prostitution. After the injured persons fled to ask for help from the Royal Thai Consulate General, Dubai, the Royal Thai Consulate General then contacted the DSI for cooperation. Mr. Triyarith Temahivong (the Director-General of the DSI) ordered the Human Trafficking Crime Bureau to investigate and inquire into this case as its special case no. 42/2563. The special case inquiry official team and the public prosecutor jointly inquired and collected evidence leading to the issuance of arrest warrants against 6 related alleged offenders both Thais and foreigners. From the total, one alleged offender in this case was arrested in November 2021. The DSI will arrest the rest of Thai and foreign alleged offenders for legal proceedings.

       The DSI has its intention of continually preventing and suppressing human trafficking crime. The DSI wishes to warn people not to be fooled by persons as the agents/brokers offering the Thai massage work in foreign countries with high income, comfort of living without forced sex services/prostitution, such as work in the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, etc. If you wish to work overseas, please directly contact the Department of Employment, Ministry of Labour. If you have information or clues to human trafficking crime, you can report it to the DSI via its hotline 1202 (free call nationwide). The DSI will keep information of its formants confidential.

Dated March 3, 2022