Alleged leader of Rohingya smuggling gang arrested

Bangkok Post
WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
PUBLISHED : 2 Nov 2024

Thai man and two accomplices tracked down after deaths of three migrants in Chumphon

An officer questions suspect Somkiart Samphaothong following his arrest in Chanthaburi on Friday. He reportedly told investigators that he was paid 3,000 baht per head to smuggle Rohingya migrants to southern Thailand. (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham) 

 

A Thai man accused of leading a human trafficking gang has been arrested along with two accomplices in connection with the smuggling of 26 Rohingya migrants, three of whom died of suffocation in an overcrowded truck, police said on Saturday.

“A perfect storm for smuggling”: New UNODC research on migrant smuggling in Southeast Asia reveals why people seek out smugglers

UNITED NATIONS
Bangkok (Thailand),
3 May 2024  

Rohingya refugees arrive in Ulee Madon in North Aceh, Indonesia after a perilous journey at sea. © UNHCR/Amanda Jufrian

“I left Myanmar because I felt unsafe.”

brahim*, a Rohingya man in his twenties, said armed conflicts and intentional burnings of his village had “forced everyone to flee.”

He’s not the only one. New research from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that tens of thousands of people from Myanmar, other parts of Southeast Asia, and from outside the region are smuggled to, through and from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand every year.

Four Indonesians arrested over Rohingya refugees smuggling

ARAB NEWS
AFP
02 April 2024

Four Indonesian suspects in connection with the smuggling of Rohingya refugees are seen during a press conference at the West Aceh Police Station in Meulaboh, West Aceh, on April 2, 2024. (AFP)

• One of the suspects said that he received five million rupiah ($314) per refugee from an agent in Malaysia 

 

MEULABOH: Four Indonesians have been arrested in connection with the smuggling of dozens of Rohingya refugees whose boat capsized in waters off the archipelago’s westernmost coast last month, police said Tuesday.

Immigration busts Rohingya smuggling ring

The Star
Thursday, 29 Feb 2024 

PUTRAJAYA: The Immigration Department busted a Rohingya migrant smuggling syndicate in a special operation around Kota Baru, Kelantan.

Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the operation on Sunday led to the arrest of 10 people, including Ali, a Rohingya man suspected to be the syndicate’s mastermind, as well as two alleged “tekong darat” (ground coordinators).

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