NCJ Number
176850
Date Published
1997
Length
58 pages
Annotation
This report details the findings of a 2-year investigation into the trafficking in women for prostitution from Russia and the newly independent states.
Abstract
The Global Survival Network (GSN) established a dummy company that purportedly specialized in importing foreign women as escorts and entertainers. Through this front, GSN met Russian pimps and traffickers, who revealed their modus operandi, as well as the identities of their financial investors and overseas partners. GSN combined these findings with information from interviews with non-governmental organizations, law enforcement agencies, trafficked women and relevant news reports. Taken together, this information provided enough detail to target several countries where Russian women and girls work as prostitutes in substantial numbers, including Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Macau, and the United States. The report describes the traffickers' lure, mechanisms of control, the marriage connection, the Mafia connection, collusion and corruption, and recommended actions and policies to curtail trafficking and provide assistance to the victims. Notes, figures, appendix