Former shop assistant, unemployed man charged with human trafficking


JOHOR BAHRU: A former shop assistant and an unemployed man pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here on Thursday (April 10) to three charges of human trafficking involving three men for labour exploitation in Johor and Myanmar between December last year and February last year.

Jasper Yap En Wai, 20, and Desmond Ang Wei Cheng, 18, made the plea after the charges were read out to them in Mandarin before Judge Siti Noraida Sulaiman.

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