A U.S. citizen is facing prosecution in Thailand on charges of human smuggling after reportedly helping seven North Koreans enter the kingdom from Laos.
Isaac Byungdo Lee, 41, was arrested Monday in the northern province of Chiang Mai under an arrest warrant issued in late July “for a crime he committed in June,” Police Lt. Col. Patipat Suban Na Ayudhya told RFA.
He was taken to Nong Khai province on the Laos border “where he committed crime” and will be brought to court there for indictment “as soon as possible,” Patipat added.
“He was charged with co-smuggling in illegal migrants into the kingdom.”
Lee could face up to five years in jail on the smuggling charge, according to the Chiangrai Times, a local news outlet in northern Thailand.
The arrest came a week after the U.S. State Department gave Thailand a failing grade for a second year running in its 2015 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, in which it ranks countries according to their efforts to combat such crimes.
“The Government of Thailand does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, and is not making significant efforts to do so,” the report said.
A U.S. citizen is facing prosecution in Thailand on charges of human smuggling after reportedly helping seven North Koreans enter the kingdom from Laos.Isaac Byungdo Lee, 41, was arrested Monday in the northern province of Chiang Mai under an arrest warrant issued in late July “for a crime he committed in June,” Police Lt. Col. Patipat Suban Na Ayudhya told RFA.He was taken to Nong Khai province on the Laos border “where he committed crime” and will be brought to court there for indictment “as soon as possible,” Patipat added.“He was charged with co-smuggling in illegal migrants into the kingdom.”Lee could face up to five years in jail on the smuggling charge, according to the Chiangrai Times, a local news outlet in northern Thailand.The arrest came a week after the U.S. State Department gave Thailand a failing grade for a second year running in its 2015 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, in which it ranks countries according to their efforts to combat such crimes.“The Government of Thailand does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, and is not making significant efforts to do so,” the report said.
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