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Home News Suspect arrested in Wellawatte for trafficking Uzbek woman
A suspect has been arrested in Wellawatte over a sex trafficking ring involving a woman from Uzbekistan.
Police spokesman Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) Ajith Rohana said the 31-year-old suspect was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) yesterday.
The man is said to have trafficked a 36-year-old woman from Uzbekistan on the promise of providing employment and had later used her for sexual activities in exchange for cash.
The CID had launched an investigation into the case based on a complaint filed by the International Organization for Migration.
Further investigations have revealed that the suspect’s wife is also an Uzbekistan national and had engaged in a similar offence on a previous occasion, and is currently imprisoned in Sri Lanka.
SDIG Ajith Rohana said the suspect will be produced before the courts today. (Colombo Gazette)

Sex traffickers are among ICE's most wanted
Sex traffickers are among ICE's most wanted
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For a decade, federal authorities say Paulino Ramirez-Granados and Raul Granados-Rendon were known for their skill at professing love to young, lonely women.
Then they smuggled the women into the U.S. from Mexico and forced them to work as prostitutes.
Today, they are known as something else: fugitives.
The men have been on the lam since they were indicted in 2011 for their part in leading a family ring of sex traffickers from Tenancingo, Mexico, who took dozens of women to Queens, N.Y., and made them turn tricks for $30 to $35 per quarter-hour.
The duo have made the Immigration and Customs Enforcement list of the 10 most wanted fugitives indicted for human trafficking, the agency announced Tuesday.
Most are wanted for sex trafficking. Half come from Tenancingo, a Mexican town of 10,000 people 80 miles southwest of Mexico City that has become known as that country's sex trafficking capital.
"We've seen the horror that these defendants are capable of," says Special Agent James Hayes of the ICE New York office. He is asking the public's help to find the fugitives.
The release of the list of fugitives comes as the number of trafficking cases in the USA has increased from 651 in fiscal year 2010 to 987 in fiscal year 2014. In the past two years, the Obama administration has trained more police to identify trafficking victims and pushed for more counseling, legal services and other help.
The issue isn't limited to foreigners brought to the United States. Polaris, an advocacy group that works to end human trafficking, says that of the 3,840 cases reported through their hotline last year, almost 1,500 involved victims who are American citizens. Many are young teens who are in foster care, have run away or live in troubled homes.
Trafficking comes in two forms, sexual exploitation and forced labor. Either way, it is difficult to track, says Sharon Peyus, who heads ICE's victim assistance program.
She says victims are afraid to flee because they are brainwashed and beaten, and they and their families are threatened with harm.
"The traffickers' hold on victims is incredibly strong," she says.
Trafficking can happen in a number of ways.
In sex trafficking, the most common scenario involves a man who finds a vulnerable young woman, often at a mall, train station or bus stop. He befriends her, makes promises of a better life and romances her so she believes the man is the only person who cares about her.
The trafficker then convinces her that if she loves him, she will work as a prostitute to make money for him.
Traffickers control their victims' every move – where they live, who they talk to and even when they eat.
"This is a global pandemic," Peyus says. "It's overwhelming to get your mind around the indignity of how we can treat another human being this way. It's modern-day slavery."
The members of the Granados sex-trafficking ring followed the script to a T, Hayes says.
For about 10 years, starting in 1998, members of the Granados family romanced young women in their native Mexico, then forced them into prostitution. Some of the women were smuggled into the U.S. and taken to work in an immigrant community in Queens, N.Y., the indictments said.
The sex ring handed out pamphlets in Spanish called "Chica cards" on one of the borough's busiest thoroughfares, advertising a phone number to call for cheap sex.
Ramirez-Grandados, 44, and Granados-Rendon, 28, were integral to the operation, Hayes says.
When federal authorities made arrests in 2011, they found 26 victims, at least one of whom was younger than 14.
Thirteen other members of the organization have been indicted, arrested or convicted, but the two men fled and are probably in the Tenancingo area, Hayes says.
Federal authorities say sex trafficking is one of the town's biggest exports going back to the 1960s. The illicit business makes so much money for families there that town festivals feature elaborately dressed traffickers showing off their prostitutes, Hayes says.
Three Uzbekistan nationals, Sandjar Agzamov, 33, Nodir Yunusov, 28, and Rustamjon Shukurov, 27, are on the ICE list for labor trafficking, which authorities say is harder to detect than sex trafficking.
The three were indicted for what authorities allege was their part in a complicated labor scheme. From 2005 through 2009, the indictments say, they defrauded the government into issuing visas for jobs that didn't exist, then brought more than 40 people into the U.S. from Uzbekistan, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines to clean hotel rooms or work in other low-wage jobs for more than 40 hours a week for as little as $50.
The fugitives were college students in St. Louis and Kansas City, where they met other Uzbekistan nationals and came up with the scheme, according to court records and the federal agents who investigated the case. All told, 11 men have been indicted.
The traffickers charged the workers as much as $5,000 in fees to obtain visas, bring them to the U.S. and find them work.
The traffickers required them to live in apartments the ring leased, charging them up to $350 a month to live with as many as 12 other people, the indictments said. The traffickers drove them to and from work to control their movements.
If the workers complained, the traffickers threatened to cancel their visas and charge them $5,000 to return home.
When federal agents broke up the ring in 2009, they found more than 40 victims working in hotels and factories in Kansas City, St. Louis, Wyoming, Florida and Virginia.
Mark Fox, ICE supervisory special agent in Kansas City, says the traffickers exploited the extreme poverty in developing countries.
"One gentleman, he was a civil engineer and came to work here in housekeeping," he says. "The money is better in housekeeping. ... Five billion people in the world live on less than $2 a day. That's the pool these traffickers were taking from."

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The young Ukrainian men and women—many of them out of work and with few prospects—were promised good-paying jobs in the United States. But instead of living the American dream, they were thrust into a nightmare of violence, threats, and forced servitude.
For years, five brothers who ran a human trafficking organization victimized dozens of unwitting Ukrainians, underscoring the reality that modern-day slavery exists in the United States and around the world—and requires a strong response by governments and law enforcement.
In recognition of that fact, and to speak out for the victims, January has been declared National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month by the U.S. government. Human trafficking can take many forms, from forced servitude to sexual exploitation of children, and the FBI is fighting these crimes on every front (see sidebar below).
The Botsvynyuk brothers created many victims. Based on trial transcripts and other public records, from approximately 2000 to 2007, the Ukrainians recruited their young countrymen to work in the U.S. in their businesses cleaning large retail stores at night. They promised good jobs, usually with salaries of $500 per month. The victims were told that room and board would be provided as well as all travel expenses. They were also told that they could earn $10,000 after two or three years of working.
Many of those who signed up for these jobs were uneducated and desperate for work. “They believed it would be a much better deal than what they had in the Ukraine,” said Special Agent Ned Conway, who has been investigating this case out of our Philadelphia Division for nearly a decade.
Instead of entering the U.S. legally, many of the victims were smuggled through Mexico and ended up working 10- to 12-hour days, seven days a week. They lived up to five people in one room, slept on dirty mattresses on the floor, and most were never compensated—on the contrary, they were told they had to work for the brothers until their debts, ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, were paid.
Worse, the Botsvynyuks used physical force and sexual assault to keep victims enslaved. They also threatened violence to victims’ families still in the Ukraine.
“Some women were raped on their arrival in the U.S., and many of the men were beaten,” Conway said. “There was an element of fear right from the start.” Most of the victims didn’t speak English and felt they had nowhere to turn. And they were afraid for their families back home.
Over time, though, some victims were detained at the border trying to gain entrance into the country, and other victims came forward. In 2010, all five brothers were indicted for human trafficking—specifically for conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Stepan and Omelyan Botsvynyuk were convicted in 2011, and in 2012, Stepan was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Omelyan received a life sentence.
Two other brothers, Mykhaylo and Yaroslav, fled to Canada. They were extradited in 2013, and their trial is set to begin this week in a Philadelphia federal court. The last brother, Dmytro Botsvynyuk, remains a fugitive in the Ukraine.
The damage caused by the Botsvynyuk brothers to perhaps 70 or more Ukrainian victims is staggering to contemplate. “The sexual assaults on the women were brutal,” Conway said, “and some of the men were psychologically broken. What happened to these innocent victims is a real tragedy. For some, their lives were destroyed.”
But there were a few bright spots to the story as well, Conway added. Some victims found the courage to testify against their abusers. And as victims of human trafficking, they also qualify for the right to apply for visas and stay in the U.S., which had been their dream all along.
“Without the brave cooperation of some of the victims,” Conway said, “it would have been more difficult to shut down the Botsvynyuks’ operation.”
The FBI has a range of resources to counter human trafficking, from agents who investigate child sexual exploitation cases to specialists from our Office for Victim Assistance who help victims get their lives back on track.
Below are some of the Bureau’s anti-human trafficking efforts and accomplishments in the last fiscal year:
Somali-born Liban Haji Mohamed is the latest addition to the list.
Preliminary Crime Stats for January-June 2014 Show Decreases
FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report for January-June 2014.

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