Five Myanmar nationals have been given 21 years' jail over the death of a Belarusian model who was trafficked to a scam compound in Myanmar under the guise of a modelling gig in October 2025.
\n\nVera Kravtsova, a 26-year-old singer and aspiring model, thought that she was meeting modelling recruiters in Bangkok, but ended up being trafficked across the Thai-Myanmar border.
\n\nShe was reportedly made to work at a scam compound in Myanmar.
\n\nHer family lost contact with her in early October 2025, and they were told her body had been "cremated" after they did not meet ransom demands to repatriate her body.
\n\nAccording to Burmese news outlet DVB, the five individuals were sentenced to 21 years in prison.
\n\nArrest warrants were also issued for three other Myanmar and two Tajkistanis nationals in relation to the case.
\n\nIt is not known how the local police tracked and arrested the five suspects.
\n\nKravtsova reportedly left Minsk around early September 2025 for a purported modelling gig in Bangkok.
\n\nShe later ended up in Myanmar and was forced to carry out scam work at a compound.
\n\nSometime in early October 2025, her family stopped hearing from her.
\n\nThey were later told that the…
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