Five Cambodian workers with legal papers have accused railway police of extorting money from them on a passenger train heading to Sa Kaeo’s Aranyaprathet district, police said.
The Cambodian nationals, four men and a woman, called the police 191 hotline about 7pm on Tuesday, immediately after the alleged extortion, Pol Maj Chaiya Maneesut, an investigation officer at Aranyaprathet police station, said on Wednesday.
They complained that railway police had asked them to go to the last carriage of the passenger train as it was approaching Aranyaprathet railway station on Tuesday.
When they entered the carriage, used as the railway staff office, they had been told they had to pay 400-500 baht each, Thai media reported on Wednesday.
Police said the Cambodian nationals had worked legally in Thailand and pink cards issued to registered migrant workers. They were escorted to formally file a complaint with the railway police.
Authorites were investigating.