Sen Ly, the director of VC Manpower Co, assembles his company's workers ahead of a meeting with reporters last month.
THE director of a local labour recruitment firm suspected of illegally detaining workers has been arrested and charged with violating the Kingdom’s anti-human trafficking law, police said Sunday.
Pol Khemra, deputy director of the Department of Police at the Interior Ministry, said Sen Ly, the director of VC Manpower Company, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of having illegally detained workers at various training facilities.
“The man was ordered to serve pre-trial detention behind bars because he has been charged with illegal human detention under Article 21 of the Law on the Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation,” he said
VC Manpower, which trains young women to work abroad as domestic servants, has been on the radar of local officials since July, when a woman fled one of its training centres and said she had been held there against her will.
Police subsequently investigated a spate of human trafficking allegations leveled against the company, which most recently surfaced after a 30-year-old trainee tried to rappel down the side of a three-storey building using a rope fashioned out of pieces of clothing. …read the full story in tomorrow’s Phnom Penh Post or see the updated story online from 3PM UTC/GMT +7 hours.
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