15 detained in trafficking case

2009-6-27 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

FIFTEEN people involved in human trafficking were detained on Thursday, local port immigration police said yesterday. They included nine people who paid tens of thousands of yuan to go to South Korea.

Six traffickers, including two foreigners, were caught on a fishing boat and in an inn in the Wusong area of Baoshan District. They had been planning the trafficking since the end of May, police said.

Baby-traffic gang boss granted death reprie...

LANG Chunyan, the female ringleader of a 23-member gang involved in the trafficking of 41 babies, was yesterday sentenced to death with a reprieve of two years. Lang's husband, Shen Yuzhou, the No. 2 gang member,...