THAILAND: -- Thai border authorities on Tuesday freed 16 Cambodian traders who were earlier arrested on charge of smuggling counterfeit brand name merchandises into the Thai border last week.
The arrest of the Cambodian
smugglers triggered protest by hundreds of their colleagues who
blockaded Aranyaprathet border and the Thai-Cambodian Friendship Bridge
and later forced Thai authorities to close the border temporarily last
Friday.
The relates was witnessed by Sakaeo governor Pakathorn Thienchai.
The Thai authorities released all
these smugglers after considering that they are just daily-waged workers
who have no intention to smuggle counterfeit goods into Thailand, and
because the case could be settled through compromises.
The Thai authorities also did not want the incident to explode out of control which could affect the relation of both countries.
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