Last year the Estonian Prosecutor's Office brought charges in three cases of human trafficking; it is a new type of crime that entered into force only last April.
Human trafficking brings charges in three cases last year
30th January 2013, 12:01
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Prosecutor General of the country, Norman Aas, said one of the cases of the mediation of prostitution was in different Tallinn apartments in 2006-2012 and another group of criminals specialized in the mediation of prostitutes to Spain.
Aas also mentioned the case of the businessman Indrek Mandre, who looked for suitable women for sending them to work as prostitutes in clubs situated in Luxembourg and Greece.
Aas said that there was a lot of work in the human trafficking sphere as the type of crime was also also connected with bringing into the country illegal labor. Aas quoted the example of 56 Vietnamese brought illegally into Estonia, to whom presumably living and work conditions would have been offered to them that made it possible to handle the case as one of human trafficking.