3 Chinese 'gangsters' sought after woman's death in Pattaya
published : 19 Sep 2022 at 08:03
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
Police are looking to arrest three Chinese nationals following the death of a Kyrgyz woman in Pattaya on Friday.
The three were wanted for alleged human trafficking and other related charges.
An investigation began after the Kyrgyz woman, Anara Seitaleva, 30, fell to her death from the seventh floor of a condominium building. She was initially believed to have committed suicide.
Three days previously, on Sept 13, Seitaleva had filed a complaint with Pattaya police, saying she had been contacted and offered a job in Pattaya by a Chinese couple she met through a Kyrgyz friend. She was promised 20,000 baht a month for a job related to tourism.
She arrived in Thailand on July 15 and was met at Suvarnabhumi airport by a Chinese man. After staying overnight in Bangkok, the man took her to Chiang Rai in the North. From Chiang Rai, she was taken to Laos.
In Laos, the Chinese man took her passport and forced her to work for a call centre gang, but she was unable to do the job. She was then forced into prostitution.
Seitaleva said she was filmed while having sex with clients to blackmail her.
On July 27, the Chinese man brought her back to Thailand. They returned to Bangkok where she was forced to continue selling sex.
She managed to escape from the gang on Sept 11 and took a taxi to Pattaya, where she sought help from a German man and stayed in his room.
Seitaleva fell to her death from the seventh floor of the condominium on Sept 16.
The German man told police that Seitaleva was a friend of his girlfriend.
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Vocabulary
- blackmail (verb): to force somebody to give you money or do something for you by threatening them, for example by saying you will tell people a secret about them - ขู่เข็ญเอาเงิน
- charge : an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime - ข้อกล่าวหา
- complaint: when someone says that something is wrong or not satisfactory - การร้องเรียน
- gang (noun): a group of criminals who work together; a group of young people who spend time together causing trouble - แก๊ง, กลุ่มโจร
- human trafficking: the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others (Source: Wikipedia) - การค้ามนุษย์
- initially: at first - ในเบื้องต้น
- prostitution: the business of selling sex - การค้าประเวณี
- suicide: the action of deliberately killing yourself - การฆ่าตัวตาย
