Nghe An: Two sisters arrested after 10 years of selling young girls to China

Tuong Duong District Police (Nghe An) have just prosecuted and temporarily detained Lo Thi Thuong (43 years old) and Lo Thi Van (48 years old) to investigate the crime of "Human trafficking". Thuong and Van are biological sisters, residing in Vang Mon village, Yen Hoa commune, Tuong Duong district.

According to the investigation results, in mid-May 2008, because she wanted to go to China to work, Lo Thi H. (residing in Vang Lin village, Yen Thang commune), went to find Lo Thi Van to ask how to contact her younger sister, Lo Thi Thuong, who was currently living in China.

Although the Van sisters later informed H. that “there was nothing to do but get married,” the 21-year-old girl still agreed and set a departure date. One day in early July 2008, H. was taken by the Van sisters to Mong Cai by car and from there rented a boat to the border. Once in the neighboring country, H. was taken by Thuong to the house of his younger sister, Lo Thi Thang, in a rural area of ​​Ho Bac province.

A few days later, Thuong asked her Chinese brother-in-law, Su Vang Sang, to introduce her to a man named Chang Ve. Chang Ve then came to see her and agreed to buy H. for 250,000 yuan (nearly 90 million VND). After receiving the money, Thuong gave Su Vang Sang 5,000 yuan and sent 10 million VND to her sister Lo Thi Van in Vietnam, the rest she kept.

Sisters Lo Thi Van and Lo Thi Thuong. Photo: Tran Duc Hai

After being sold, H. tried to contact his family to tell his father, Lo Van H., to come to Van's house to get the money. Van then gave this man 5 million VND and said that this was the money his daughter got from marrying a Chinese man and told him "not to sue".

H. married Chang Ve and gave birth to a daughter after a year. In 2011, H. fled back to Vietnam. H. said that after returning to her hometown, she really wanted to go to the authorities to report the case, but her father advised her not to because she had received money from Van and her sisters.

Recently, after more than 10 years of being sold to China, Lo Thi H. went to the People's Committee of Yen Thang commune to recount the incident and also went to the Tuong Duong district police to report it.