Korean Jailed In Labuan For Human Trafficking

Kuala Lumpur - A 45-year-old South Korean man was sentenced to 10 months' jail by the Labuan Sessions Court Monday after he pleaded guilty to abetting to bring in eight Chinese women illegally by using false travel documents, The Star reported.

The Labuan Sessions Court also sentenced the eight women, aged between 20 and 25, to six months' jail for carrying tampered South Korean passports.

Datuk Ishak Mohamed, Immigration Department Enforcement Director, said the group was arrested earlier this month in Labuan after officials discovered that the women, who were in possession of tampered South Korean passports, used Labuan to enter Brunei and then leave for a Western country.

"On March 2, immigration officials arrested six women from China who were leaving for Brunei at the Labuan jetty.

“We suspected they had an agent and two days later officials arrested the Korean man and two more Chinese women,” he said

"This is a major success for the department because for the first time we are able to convict an agent of a human trafficking syndicate," he added. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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