Thai general guilty of human trafficking

BANGKOK: A senior Thai army general was found guilty of human trafficking on Wednesday at a rare trial exposing the links between corrupt officialdom and the trade in people through the kingdom.

“The defendant worked with others to facilitate human trafficking,” a judge at Bangkok Criminal Court said while reading the verdict against army Lieutenant-General Manas Kongpan, adding he was also guilty of a role in a “transnational crime organisation” A Thai court found dozens of people guilty of human trafficking offences on Wednesday in a mass trial exploring links between corrupt officials, including a senior army general, and the grim but lucrative trade in Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants.