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    Russian, Armenian police prevent smuggling of prostitutes to Middle East

    RIA news agency, Moscow
    2 Jul 04


    YEREVAN

    The Russian Interior Ministry and the Armenian police have carried out
    a joint operation to smash a criminal gang which recruited young girls
    in Armenia and smuggled them via Moscow to the UAE for prostitution.

    Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev announced this to
    journalists on Friday [2 July] after a meeting of the joint board of
    the two ministries in the Armenian capital.

    Nurgaliyev said the joint operation was carried out on 24 June
    2004. "Our Armenian colleagues arrived in Moscow very quickly and we
    carried out this operation very quickly," Nurgaliyev said.

    The Russian interior minister said the criminals brought the girls to
    Moscow, provided them with documentation, after which they were sent
    to the UAE for the purposes of prostitution.

    "We freed six girls who were about to be sent abroad," Nurgaliyev
    said. He said this was a lucrative business. Members of the gang
    received 2,000 dollars apiece for each girl.

    "Altogether we have prevented about 100 girls being smuggled abroad,"
    the minister said.

    He also said two arrests had been made. The names of the arrested
    persons have not been released. One of the detainees was responsible
    for smuggling the girls through Moscow's Domodedovo airport to foreign
    destinations. The other hired the girls and found temporary
    accommodation for them in flats.
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