Human traffickers sentenced

Vanuatu court sentences four Bangladeshis for trafficking and slavery

It is considered the biggest ever human trafficking case in the Pacific.

The man behind a business called Mr Price, Sekdah Somon, was sentenced to 14 years in jail and fined, while his wife, Buxoo Nabilah Bibi got 7 years' jail and a further fine.

Two others, Anowar Hossain and Palas Hosan, got 6 and 7 years in jail respectively.

This quartet had masterminded an arrangement to lure more than 100 Bangladeshis into Vanuatu with the promise of employment, but they ended up being enslaved.