Thailand-Spain sex ring broken


A 28-year-old Thai man was arrested for luring seven female compatriots into prostitution in Spain, Central Bureau of Investigation chief Pol Lt-General Thangai Prasajaksatru said yesterday.

The suspect, Noppadol Thongsata, who faces charges of human trafficking, was arrested after officials at the Thai Embassy in Madrid led police to search the "La Boheme" club in Burgos, a city in northern Spain. They rescued 20 female sex workers there, including seven Thais.

Club patroness Jinda Khetwat faces legal action in Spain. The seven Thais were sent back.

Noppadol reportedly offered to pay all travelling expenses for the seven to work as traditional masseuses and arranged for Thai men, pretending to be their husbands on a honeymoon trip, to accompany the women to Spain. The women were then detained and forced into prostitution to repay a Bt850,000 "debt" each. Noppadol reportedly confessed and said he had done this many times before.



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