Immigration Bureau holds press conference on arrest of alien smuggling gang

Immigration Bureau announces arrest of a gang that smuggled foreigners from the northern region to the whole country, and another case is the arrest of 'Bang Yan', the leader of a gang that smuggled foreign workers illegally across the country. Immigration Bureau arrests a gang smuggling aliens from the northern region to the whole country. Pol. Lt. Gen. Itthiphon Itthisarnchai, Commissioner-General of the Immigration Bureau, Pol. Maj. Gen. Panthana Nuchnart, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Immigration Bureau, and relevant officers held a press conference on the arrest of suspects. This follows the incident on February 4, 2024 at approximately 8:00 p.m., when officers from the Nan Immigration Bureau, together with the Nan Provincial Police Investigation Division, stationed at the Huai Nam Un checkpoint, arrested Mr. Jiravat, 50 years old, along with 6 Cambodian aliens. Mr. Jiravat confessed that he was hired by Mr. Nureang to pick up and drop off aliens, and had agreed upon a fee of 18,000 baht to deliv er 6 aliens from Chiang Muan District, Phayao Province, to the border area of ??Ban Laem, Pong Nam Ron District, Chanthaburi Province, and would receive the payment after dropping off the aliens at their destination. He has spoken to Mr. Nureang The LINE application arranged for details on receiving and sending aliens, including compensation from Mr. Nureang. Therefore, an investigation was conducted and it was found that Mr. Nureang had a history of secretly receiving and sending aliens to various places, both from the North and the South. It was also found that Mr. Nureang was a person wanted on an arrest warrant by the Thung Song Provincial Court on the charge of 'providing shelter, hiding, or helping in any way an alien who entered the country illegally in order to avoid arrest', 1 warrant. Later, from the investigation, it was discovered that Mr. Nureang had fled the case and was staying in an area of ??Village 9, Tambon Ran Buri, Amphoe Rattanaburi, Surin Province. Therefore, coordination was made with the Surin Immigration Bureau to inspect and arrest him and send him to the Wiang Sa Police Station, Nan Province, to be prosecuted for the offense of knowing that an alien had entered the Kingdom in violation of the law, allowing him to stay, hide, or help in any way so that the alien could avoid arrest. Immigration Bureau arrests 'Bang Yan', leader of illegal migrant worker smuggling operation across borders Pol. Lt. Gen. Itthiphon Itthisarnchai, Commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, along with Pol. Maj. Gen. Panthana Nuchnarat, Deputy Commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, and relevant officers held a press conference on the arrest of Mr. Safyan or Bangyan, 24 years old, Thai national, according to an arrest warrant issued by the Songkhla Provincial Court. He was arrested in the area of ????Pa Dae Langa Village, Tambon Pulo Puyo, Amphoe Nong Chik, Pattani Province, on the charge of 'assisting, hiding, or assisting in any way to allow an alien who entered the Kingdom in violation of the Immigration Act to escape arrest.' Following on from November 21, 2013, the investigation team of Songkhla Immigration arrested 19 Bangladeshi migrant workers who were illegally entering the country along with 2 people who helped them in Songkhla Province. After that, the arrest was expanded and found that Mr. Sufyan or Bangyan was behind this crime. Until the officers were able to arrest him in the aforementioned village. For Mr. Sufyan or Bangyan, he is considered an important mechanism at the command level in transporting illegal Bangladeshi migrant workers from Cambodia through Thailand to Malaysia via natural channels. He has 2 arrest warrants for the above-mentioned offenses. He will be responsible for coordinating with brokers in neighboring countries to arrange vehicles to transport 15-20 migrant workers at a time from the northern region to the southern region along the route until they reach employers who want to use illegal workers in Malaysia. It took several months for officials to collect evidence before they could identify the individual. It was also found that this network was involved in 3 cases of illegal aliens being brought into the country in which immigration officers had already arrested. The dismantling of this network was considered an important severing of the cycle of labor transport through Thailand because police officers were able to prosecute 62 offenders from the beginning to the end: 10 Thais and 52 foreigners. They were able to seize 8 vehicles used in the crimes and send them for legal prosecution. Source: Thai News Agency