They sold poor women to Chinese men as wives
* Many Chinese suitors suffer from physical deformities
* At least 14 have been trafficked

The convicted include Nguyen Thi Thu Xi, 49; Trinh Thi Trinh, 52; Huynh Thi Nhuan, 52; and Ho Thanh Phong, 25. All of them are local residents.

Xi was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while the jail terms for Trinh, Nhuan and Phong were 6, 5, and 4 years respectively.

On May 26, 2010, the Tay Ninh police and the Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat Airport security force caught Xi taking three local women – Nguyen Thi P, 29; Le Thi Thu C., 23, and Ngo Thi Bich L. – to the airport to fly to Hanoi before trafficking them to China, where they will be sold as potential wives to Chinese men, according to the indictment from the local Procuracy.

The police seized from Xi 4 air tickers, 12 passports, 5 laissez-passers and many other documents and VND63 million (US$3,000).

In June 2009, Xi travelled to China to make deals in cosmetics and in doing business there. She met Bui Thi Hong, who had Xi lure Vietnamese women to China to sell them to Chinese men.

Hong promised to pay Xi 5,000 yuan for each woman accepted by Chinese men.

Xi later persuaded Trinh, Nhuan and Phong to join her in trafficking Vietnamese women to China. Xi paid them VND1 million for each woman she accepted.

The human trafficking ring led by Xi sold 10 women to China to get VND62.5 million from Hong.

Trinh alone sold 4 women to China to get VND10 million.

After receiving those trafficked women, Hong sold them as wives to Chinese men, most of them suffering malformation or mental diseases.

Hong has been wanted by the Lao Cai province police since 2000, when she fled from her residence.

 (Source: TuoiTreNews)