Authorities arrest suspected gang leader who allegedly lured women with false job offers then forced them into prostitution
said they had foiled a criminal gang who forced women into sex work abroad after luring them with false adverts for legitimate employment.
After assisting her, prosecutors were then able to arrest a 31-year-old male suspected of being the leader of a trafficking ring.
In early June, investigators began tracking the movements and contacts of a man living near the capital who appeared to be the ringleader. After a few weeks, the authorities managed to trace one of his victims, a woman from Donetsk who had been living in Kyiv and was making her way to the border village of Chop, on to Hungary, then Austria where she would board the flight for Istanbul.
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