Human trafficking bust

[Creative Eye]

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/lo...fficking_ring_080112/20080112?hub=TorontoHome

I wonder which agencies these were. Any agencies suddenly go quiet lately?

 

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What happen to the good old days when they were only trafficking vodka?

 

[DGrohl]

Oh man - I hope those guys get what they deserve.

 

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Good old Russian Mob?

Yeah! Imagine being labeled as a failed KGB agent immigrated to Canada to become a pimp ! EEK

 

[jan00b]

Toronto resident Artur Tomchin

This may be unrelated .. but the guy incharge of top girls was named "Artur" or "Arthur"

 

[shack]

No pics of the girls?

 

[fuji]

I bet it was a customer who tipped off the police. I know if I went to a place and I suspected the girls weren't there of their own free will my next call would be to the police. I hope that's how generally everyone here feels, and I hope that's how they got caught.

 

[fuji]

Turns out it was not a customer, one of the workers went to the cops. No-one has any information on the agency??

 

[Aardvark154]

Turns out it was not a customer, one of the workers went to the cops.

Interesting, that's certainly not in accordance with the way such organizations are portrayed in the mainstream news media. (just a statement, not a "loaded comment)

Cases like this are so troubling, not only the immorality of forced prostitution, but the bleed over into the perception of escorts in general, and the perception of foreign women coming to North America.

 

[S.C. Joe]

Maybe I did not notice but I did not see that the ladies were working for any agencies.

I can not see any that advertise on Terb doing anything like that.

Yes, this could make the escort customers look bad and the way the media writes about it, somebody would think that theres no good ladies in Canada who like working as an escort. Funny, all I see seem pretty happy and upbeat, they have a phone they can call out on. Nobody seems to be forcing them to work.

 

[Creative Eye]

I bet it was a customer who tipped off the police. I know if I went to a place and I suspected the girls weren't there of their own free will my next call would be to the police. I hope that's how generally everyone here feels, and I hope that's how they got caught.

Yeah right. Not gonna happen. The majority of everyone on this board like to stick their heads in the sand and deny it happens. Everyone likes to rave about the $80 massage places and asian incalls but no one likes to think how such operations can possibly make money if they treat their girls fairly.

 

[Aardvark154]

Yeah right. Not gonna happen. The majority of everyone on this board like to stick their heads in the sand and deny it happens. Everyone likes to rave about the $80 massage places and asian incalls but no one likes to think how such operations can possibly make money if they treat their girls fairly.

I see and basicly agree with your larger point. But this was an ee organization.

 

[Perry Mason]

This may be unrelated .. but the guy incharge of top girls was named "Artur" or "Arthur"

I have tried calling Top Girls several times over the past 2 or 3 weeks... never answers.

Some one here 2 or 3 weeks ago (search function not working right now ) mentioned that there was a CL ad by Monika saying she had left Top Girls and was working as an indy... but when I contacted her around Christmas she sounded very confused and said she had quit the business... just 1 or 2 days after the ad appeared?!

1 + 1 +1 = 3?

I hope not! Their girls have always enjoyed good reputations here and I would hate to think we have been patronizing that kind of situation!

Any one have any other info?

Perry

 

[fuji]

Creative, I think some people may be willing to turn a blind eye, but a lot are not. I speak a couple of asian languages and I often have what I think are fairly relaxed and open and respectful conversations with the SP's I see, I ask them what they did back home, how long they've been here, how they like it, I would think if they were in trouble sooner or later someone would tell me, or at least leave me with the feeling that this is not their choice.

Most of the $80 incalls are women who previously worked as SP's in their home country who are considered "over the hill" back home, and figure they can keep on earning some money by working here.

 

[Aardvark154]

Four people have thus far been arrested: Artur Tomchin, 35, of Toronto, and Andrei Khazarov, 39, of Thornhill, and Daniel Leshinsky, 38, also of Thornhill, who are charged with: conspiracy to commit human trafficking, trafficking in persons, receiving benefit from trafficking in persons, withholding documents, exploitation, procuring a person to become a prostitute, living off the avails of prostitution, forcible confinement, exercising control and threatening bodily harm all three are scheduled for bail hearings tomorrow.

A woman Volha Venar, 35, of Toronto, was subsequently arrested and has been charged with: trafficking in persons, exploitation and procuring a person to become a prostitute.

As we all know there is a huge difference between doing it because I want to, and doing it because I'm forced to.

Mods if for some reason this is inappropriate please delete it.

 

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Don't you all feel a little guilty for having contributed to the income of these scumbags? ... or you just don't give a fuck?

 

[Aardvark154]

Don't you all feel a little guilty for having contributed to the income of these scumbags? ... or you just don't give a fuck?

Who says anyone here did?

 

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Who says anyone here did?

you mean "did give a fuck... not?"

 

[Aardvark154]

you mean "did give a fuck... not?"

No that's not what I said.

 

[Aardvark154]

Just suffice to say that these former Soviet-bloc people are skilled and accomplished liars and cons. Don't believe anything any of them says.

As Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill famously said “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” or in other words a land of very stark contrasts between light and dark.

I know wonderful people including amazing women (vanilla world) there, however, there are also people who might as well have emerged from the abyss. (For a good treatment of the later see the movie Eastern Promisises)
You have to be very careful in trying to separate the wheat from the chaff and it is not always easy to do.

They had 75 years of games playing - “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work” and that ethos of doing whatever you are able to get away with without regard to morality still has followers.