Police in northern Quang Ninh Province, in conjunction with their counterparts in Nghe An, arrested two men and a woman as they were attempting to sell two young women to China through the Vietnam-China border.
>> Police seize 3 human traffickers, rescue woman>> Human trafficking on the rise in Vietnam, police warn>> 12 sentenced for trafficking women to China Lo Van Binh, 28, Luong Van Doi, 37, and Luong Thi Ai, 28, were caught preparing to bring two women, 24 and 23 years old, to China by illegally crossing the border in Quang Ninh last Saturday. Everyone involved in the case is a resident of central Nghe An Province. The traffickers told police that they targeted young women whom they had lured into going to China to marry Chinese men or find well-paid jobs. Once across the border, however, they sold their victims to other human traffickers or brothels for money. This is the third human trafficking case that Nghe An police have uncovered in the first week of September. On the morning of September 1, in Hai Yen Ward, Mong Cai Town, Quang Ninh Province, anti-drug police and border guard forces from Quang Ninh and Nghe An coordinated in capturing Xeo Van Cam, a 27-year-old man from Nghe An, who was attempting to take a woman across the border illegally.
Cam told the police he wanted to sell the 20-year-old woman, who is from Nghe An’s Ky Son District, to people in China.
Based on Cam’s testimony, the police and border guards later seized two accomplices in the human trafficking ring, Moong Van Uyen, a 28-year-old man, and Lu Thi Mai, a woman. Both are residents of Ky Son.
As previously reported, Vietnamese police in July warned that human trafficking in the country is becoming increasingly complex and international in nature.
The warning was released by the General Department for Crime Prevention and Control (GDCPC) at a conference jointly held by Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Hanoi on July 2. Colonel Le Van Chuong, Deputy Chief of the Standing Office on Drugs and Crimes, said that human traffickers mainly target women and children, who account for about 80 percent of the total number of victims of human trafficking. According to the GDCPC’s statistics, more than 3,200 human trafficking cases have been uncovered in Vietnam since 2005, involving 5,600 traffickers and 7,000 victims.