26 November 2004
Janitor in Brest convicted of human trafficking
A judge of Brest's district court on Tuesday handed down a five-year prison sentence in the region's first ever human trafficking case heard in court.
An unidentified 25-year-old resident of Brest was found guilty of recruiting young women for work abroad as prostitutes. She also will have all her property confiscated. As Judge Inna Klyshpach told BelaPAN, the woman, a janitor by trade, supplied women to Austria,
Germany and Poland in exchange for $200 to $500 for one woman.
All the women were well aware of what kind of work was awaiting them abroad, the judge said. "The court found four counts of human trafficking proved, although police say there were at least 10 counts," Ms. Klyshpach said.
The convicted trafficker was arrested this past June while she was seeing off a recruited woman leaving for Poland.
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