TAK: Four Myanmar men have been arrested in a sting operation for procuring women, including an underage girl, for prostitution.
They were apprehended at a hotel in tambon Mae Pa in Mae Sot district yesterday by a team of immigration police and soldiers.
Police posing as customers contacted a Myanmar man who worked at a hotel and asked him to arrange Myanmar women to provide sex services for them.
Two Myanmar men riding motorcycles with three Myanmar women, including a 16-year old girl, as pillion riders, turned up at the hotel.
Another Myanmar man who worked at the hotel then took the women to the undercover officers in a hotel room and received 2,250 baht, 750 baht for each woman.
The four Myanmar men were then promptly arrested. They were identified only as Pao, Pas, Chitu, and Kochai.