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Three Vietnamese nationals have been arrested for attempting to smuggle people to the United States, and a fourth has been jailed for trying to smuggle people to Taiwan, state media said on Thursday.
Police in the central Vietnamese city of Hue detained two men and one woman on suspicion of people smuggling.
Nguyen Khac Trong and Nguyen Van Chuong, 32, and Bui Thi Thu Hong, 34, will be investigated for “organising or coercing other persons to flee abroad or to stay abroad illegally”, and face a jail term of up to 20 years, according to the local newspaper VnExpress.
The alleged human smugglers were caught after one man paid them US$36,000 to send his son to America. Weeks passed without progress on the son's trip, and the father complained to authorities after the men refused to give him a refund.




In a separate case, a man in Ha Tinh province was jailed for five years for illegally smuggling nearly 50 people by boat to Taiwan via China, according to the news source.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered an investigation on Saturday into overseas trafficking after the bodies of 39 migrants were found in a truck in Britain on October 23. Many of them are suspected to be Vietnamese.
In the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, where 18 families are searching for missing children, four suspects were arrested over connections to a company that arranged overseas trips and visas for Vietnamese nationals
Le Duy Anh, a former director of the company, is being investigated for “organising or coercing other persons to flee abroad or to stay abroad illegally”, and faces up to 20 years in jail.
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Between September 2015 and January 2019, his company received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a total of around 400 individuals, according to local media reports, although there is no word on whether they may be linked to the British case.
Police in the central Vietnamese province of Ha Tinh, where 10 families also reported missing children, have also launched a criminal investigation into human trafficking.


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A portrait of 20-year-old Nguyen Dinh Luong, who is feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, is kept on a prayer altar at his house in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province. Vietnamese police are cracking down on people smuggling. Photo: AFP

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Vietnam ordered an investigation into overseas trafficking after the bodies of 39 migrants were found in a truck in Britain on October 23
Three were arrested after a man who paid them US$36,000 to send his son to the US complained when they refused to give him a refund



Vietnam ordered an investigation into overseas trafficking after the bodies of 39 migrants, most of them thought to be Vietnamese, were found in a truck in Britain on October 23.


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