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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 07:52 PM Jan 2012

Court convicts 4 Israelis of heading international human trafficking ring

Credit where credit is due. I thought that "located hundreds of you women in towns and villages" was funny, but no doubt it's a typo. Note that the women are getting $25-50 a pop, and not keeping much of that.

The Tel Aviv District Court convicted Thursday four Israelis of heading a massive human-trafficking ring that reached out of Israel’s borders to such countries as Cyprus, Belgium and England, forcing hundreds of women into prostitution.

At the end of a two-year international investigation, the suspects were arrested in 2009 along with over 20 suspects in several other countries. The convicted ringleader, Rami Saban, a 37-year-old resident of Magadim, was previously under investigation for alleged involvement in bringing hired killers from Belarus to assassinate leading Israeli underworld figure Nissim Alperon.

Along with Saban, the court also convicted three of his accomplices, including brothers David and Yaakov Moraidi and Shmuel Malka.

In what the verdict called “one of the most complex and extensive human-trafficking affairs to be uncovered in recent years, if not ever,” Saban and his associates used a network which located hundreds of you women in towns and villages in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/court-convicts-4-israelis-of-heading-international-human-trafficking-ring-1.406977
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