IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT

Nov 29, 2001

Page 31: "In August, a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas returned a six-count indictment charging two [less two unindicted unwitting co-conspirators, UTEP Professors Rael and Dass] defendants with recruiting women from Uzbekistan into the United States under false pretenses, then forcing them to work in strip clubs and bars in order to pay back an alleged $300,000 smuggling fee. We allege that the victims' passports were taken awy, they were required to work seven days a week, and they were told that the1r families in Uzbekistan would be harmed if they did not comply with the defendants' demands. ( United States v. Gasanov )

"In June, three men pleaded guilty in federal district court to bringing two sixteen-year-old Russian girls to Anchorage, Alaska to dance nude in a strip club. The two main defendants were sentenced in August and September to 46 and 30 months incarceration. ( United States v. Virchenko )"

http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/107/76351.pdf