Two men arrested for keeping a Russian woman prisoner in Athens

Police yesterday arrested two Greeks believed to be members of a people smuggling ring bringing foreign women into Greece and forcing them to work in the sex industry for profit. Officers rescued a Russian woman who, they said, had been held hostage by the suspects in a Menidi apartment and forced to work as a stripper. The woman was reportedly brought to Greece from Russia with the promise of high-paid work and supplied with documents. Ring members allegedly threatened to murder her child, who is with relatives in Russia, unless she complied.
(10.10.07)   Kathimerini English Edition   ()
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