Following last month’s arrest of 31 Burmese migrants attempting to cross through Songkhla province into Malaysia, police have now caught a person suspected of trafficking them. Yesterday, police in Sadao district arrested Saiyid Ratdaewa after discovering him in a house he was renting. Police say they found that Saiyid was a job dealer for migrants looking for jobs in Malaysia. Police additionally found a pistol and 33 rounds of ammunition, in addition to a pickup truck and a mobile phone.
The alleged smugglers involved in the operation have been Thai, Malaysian, and Myanmar nationals. The 31 migrants they tried to smuggle included 25 men and six women. Police found them hiding in a ditch on a rubber plantation in Sadao district, about one kilometre from the Malaysia border. The migrants stated they first entered Thailand through a natural border crossing in Tak, a Northern province, and a pickup truck took them to Songkhla. Another pickup truck then took them to Sadao. Once in Sadao, they’d been informed to wait for assist getting across the border into Malaysia.
Saiyid is from Padang Besar, a Malaysian town that borders Songkhla.
Migrants from Myanmar frequently try to cross into Thailand for jobs. They usually pay job brokers a lot of money to search out them jobs, from 5,000 to 50,000 baht. With บริการติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ราคาถูก in Covid-19, Thai officers have warned people to “look out for” illegal migrants. They have also stated they’ll crack down on smuggling gangs, and factories hiring unlawful migrants..