Police announced the arrest last Friday of a Thai man suspected of sending three Thai women into sexual slavery in Japan.
The three women were rescued by police in Nagano Prefecture last September and told authorities that they had been duped into flying to Japan to supposedly work at a restaurant by Chakraphan Wacharaphin. Chakraphan arranged travel documents and air tickets for them but when they arrived in Japan they were forced into prostitution, according to the head of the Anti-Human Trafficking Division of the Royal Thai Police.
The man denied human-trafficking charges but admitted that he had earned THB20,000-40,000 from each women for arranging their visas, The Japan Times reported. He also claimed the women’s parents had consented to the visa arrangements.
Orachorn Hayashi, a Thai woman once married to Chakraphan, was arrested in November in Nagano Prefecture also on suspicion of involvement in the human-trafficking ring, according to Thai police.
Chakraphan admitted to the police that his former wife married a Japanese man, but claimed he was unaware of her business.
