Twenty-four illegal migrant workers were arrested after a raid on a data center construction site in the Ban Chang District of Rayong, Thailand.
The Chinese-run data center construction site was raided at about 10 am on Tuesday this week by police officials from the Provincial Employment Office, as reported by the Bangkok Post.
Those arrested comprised 20 Myanmar nationals and four Chinese nationals. Officials found the workers were without proper permits and were working illegally upon checking their work and immigration documents. A number of other workers fled at the arrival of the authorities, jumping into a nearby canal and swimming away.
Legal proceedings have begun, with immigration police contacted to carry out deportation procedures. Complaints have also been filed by local authorities against three unnamed contractors for their employment of the illegal workers.
An initial inspection of the site found more than 400 people allegedly working on the under-construction data center project who were living at a camp set up for construction workers.
