Police smash rings trafficking girls to Singapore, China
Ministry of Public Security police yesterday said they had busted many rings trafficking women abroad, including one that sent 50 women to Singapore. They have arrested 15 people and rescued 17 girls.
The most notable in these rings was one led by Tran Van Tam, 37, and Nguyen Loan Thach, 27, who were seized at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City while carrying out procedures to send 6 girls to Singapore.
This was just one of the many trafficking cases committed by the ring, which had sent a total of 50 women to Singapore with an aim of forcing them to work as prostitutes.
Tam and Thach confessed to the police that they lured those girls to Singapore to seek jobs but in fact they wanted to sell them to brothels.
The ministry said it had coordinated with the Vietnam Interpol Office and police departments of 13 provinces and cities to uncover the large-scale ring.
The ring had have trafficked about 50 girls from Tay Ninh and some other southern provinces to Singapore, police said.
Another leading trafficking ring was led by Pham Thi Thu Huyen and Nguyen Thi Chin, who lured young and beautiful girls to the northern border province of Quang Ninh and then took them to China to sell them to whorehouses.
Those girls are from Quang Ninh, Nam Dinh, Hai Phong, and Lam Dong provinces, police said.
The police have prosecuted 15 people involved in the trafficking rings and saved 17 girls.
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