Major Nguyen Huu Tho, deputy chief of the International Frontier Post Cau Treo in the central province of Ha Tinh said that his men and police arrested 9 people from the highlands provinces tried to cross functional borders illegally.
These people from highlands provinces crossed the border gate to go to Laos or Thailand to work. They were led by Nguyen Van Hoan, 49 in Ngoc Hoi District in the highland province of Kon Tum.
Initially, Hoan confessed at the police station that he and two other Laotian men took 8 people from highlands province to Ha Tinh Province to illegally move to Lao or Thailand for working.
Border guards transferred all related documents to police in Ha Tinh Province for further investigation.