translated from Spanish: They decree pre-trial detention for migrant trafficking in workers from Thailand: they would have been offered work as cooks

On Saturday, and via Zoom, the defendants Cristóbal Cox of La Fuente and Jirawat Nantalankha were formalized. Prosecutors Felipe Sepúlveda and María Gloria Neculman charged both detainees with the crimes of migrant trafficking and human trafficking. In the formalization, the prosecutor Sepúlveda noted that “between 7 August 2016 and 23 January 2020, the for-profit defendants and repeatedly facilitated and promoted the illegal entry into the country of citizens from Thailand, with the registration of 16 citizens of that country.” (…) Taking advantage of the vulnerability of foreigners, Nantalankha offered a job in Chile, at Lai Thai restaurant, to perform in most cases as cooks,” he explained. Victims were told that when they traveled to our country they should point out that they were coming as tourists, to visit a friend. However, the purpose was to work as cooks in the restaurant branches in Lo Barnechea, Providencia and La Reina.In addition, the accused Cox was formalized by the cultivation of 116 marijuana plants found in his home at the time of the arrest. The East Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the 4th Guarantee Court the precautionary measure of pre-trial detention for danger to society, which was accepted by the court, granting an investigation period of 70 days.

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