A HUMAN trafficker has been sentenced to 34 years in prison and fined Bt200,000 for illegally transporting Rohingya migrants within Thailand, but the provincial court in Nakorn Si Thammarat's Pak Phanang district dismissed links to a trans-national crime operation.

The court convicted Sunon "Ko Mit" Saengthong of human trafficking while two accomplices were found guilty of the lesser charge of collaborating in and abetting the trafficking of persons in violation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act.

Suriya Yodrak was jailed for one year while Warachai Chadathong was given a six-month sentence.

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