The joint operation between the Singapore Police Force and the Royal Thai Police dismantled an illicit syndicate operating out of Thailand's Rayong and Phitsanulok provinces. Authorities determined the network recruited foreign women, including Thai nationals, to work as vice workers in Singapore. The crackdown follows earlier anti-vice raids in Singapore that resulted in the arrest of 19 vice workers. Investigators also summoned an additional 35-year-old Thai man to face charges in connection with the illicit scheme.
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- Two Singaporean men and two Thai women were arrested in Thailand on Sept 15 for running a transnational vice syndicate.
- Singapore police and the Royal Thai Police shared intelligence, dismantled the group, and shut its Singapore vice activities and Telegram groups.
- Police seized over 350,000 Thai baht in assets and said they will keep working together to stop such cross-border criminal networks.
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SINGAPORE – Two Singaporean men were among four people arrested for their involvement in operating a transnational vice syndicate.
In a media release on Oct 29, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said that they collaborated with the Royal Thai Police (RTP) on a cross-border operation against a syndicate that recruited foreign women to send them to Singapore to work as vice workers.
The operation on Sept 15 led to the arrest of the two Singaporeans, aged 42 and 46, and two Thai women, aged 33 and 37.
Thailand’s The Nation newspaper reported that there was another 35-year-old Thai man who was “summoned by investigators to be informed of charges”.
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