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World Jewish News
Israeli Police Disclose International Network of Trafficking in Women from the CIS
10.03.2009
The Israeli police today completed the operation in defeating an international network of trafficking in women from the CIS countries and forcing them into prostitution.
Police arrested 12 suspects in these crimes. This was announced at a press conference in Tel Aviv.
The operation started two years ago with a secret investigation. Police discovered a criminal organization bringing the women from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Uzbekistan to brothels.
According to the investigation, the head of the network resides in the north of Israel, and among his assistants were criminals from the CIS countries, who looked for young women in villages and small towns and attracted them by deception, that is offered to work as dancers and waitresses. The police also assume that women might have been treated with violence.
"They recruited women in the CIS countries, ostensibly to work as waitresses abroad, legally brought them to Turkey and then smuggled through the Egyptian-Israeli border in the Sinai to Israel," said police press-secretary Alex Kagalsky. "When Israel became unsafe, they began to supply 'live goods' to brothels disguised as nightclubs in northern Cyprus, Belgium, Netherlands and Canada."
During the investigation, the Israeli police cooperated with the Russian law enforcement agencies.
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