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시애틀 지역에서 매춘알선과 돈세탁, 비자 사기등을 저질러온

한인 룸살롱 업주와 윤락녀 등이 무더기 검거됐습니다.

연방이민세관국 ICE 는  어제 (지난 12일0

시애틀에서 "불루문 "이라는 룸살롱을 운영하는

올해 58살의 김창영씨 부부와 룸살롱 매니저, 직원 등 8명이

 매춘알선과 돈세탁, 비자사기, 뇌물 수수 등 12건의 혐의로 적발돼

연방 대배심에 기소된 상태입니다.

☞ 라디오코리아 뉴스를 스마트폰 앱으로 보세요.

 

ICE 는 지난 2009년 11월부터 지난 2년동안 합동단속을 벌인 끝에

이들은 무더기 검거하는데 성공한것이라고 전했습니다.

김씨 부부는 한국에서 모집한 불법 체류 여성들을

업소  호스테스로 일을 시키면서매춘 등을 알선해 왔고

이들을 인근 아파트에서 합숙시키는 등으로 불법체류 은신처 제공혐의가 더해졌습니다.

ICE 조사결과 업주 김 창영씨는  수사당국의  단속을 피하기 위해,

담당수사관에게 단속 정보를  미리 받는 댓가로  뇌물을 제공했고

 불법 체류 호스테스들을 입국시키기 위해

이민국 직원에게까지 뒷돈을 건낸 것으로 드러났습니다.

김창영씨와 김씨의 부인 문연정씨, 마담인 미영 로버츠. 매니저 소정산씨,

호스테스들에게 아파트를 리스해 준 레이몬드 정씨,

자금책인 프랭크 이씨등 한인 6명은  어제 (지난 12일) 체포됐습니다

마담인 한 성희씨와, 룸살롱의 전 매니저 조희재씨는

 현재 경찰의 추적을 받고 있는 상황으로  현재 이들은 LA에 도피중인것으로 알려져

경찰이 추적에 나선상태입니다.

룸살롱에서 일하던 또다른 윤락여성들이 타주로 옮겨간 것으로 보고

경찰은 수사망을 확대하고 있습니다.

Global human trafficking roundup (May 5, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

Indiana: Federal authority busted a human trafficking ring in Indianapolis. The multi state ring brought women from abroad and prostituted them in Hispanic community on the northwest side of Indianapolis. Police also arrested 19 people including four men and three women appeared in Federal court earlier this week.

Hawaii: The second suspect pleads guilty in largest U.S. human trafficking case. He is one of the eight people charged in an alleged human trafficking case exploiting 400 Thai workers on Hawaiian farms. With the guilty plea, he could face up to five years in prison and "three years on probation as well as pay a $250,000 fine and restitution to the victims."

Arizona: The Department of Public Safety found a dozen of trafficking victims at a drop house during the raid. The raid was conducted after the investigators received a tip from a family i Florida that their family member was being held for ransom in somewhere in Phoenix area. The investigators round 10 victims and six suspects during the raid. Some of the victims are bound for sex industry. The house was located in the middle of an upscale suburban community.

Washington: Governor signed a new bill into a law to combat child prostitution. Under the new legislation, allow police to record telephone calls involving underage victims when the victims give consent. It will also allow minors to help police with investigations. The new law will go in effect in the beginning of August.

EUROPE

Czech Republic: National authority said that the federal law enforcement has been unsuccessful in fighting against labor trafficking. She said that traffickers no longer use violence but rather targeting their vulnerable positions as a method of control. She also added that the new method of control has been very difficult to prove, and it is often not considered as a crime at all.

Ireland: Two men are scheduled to be extradited from Lithuania to Northern Ireland on charges involve human trafficking. The charges are related to a human trafficking incident in 2006 and include abduction, false imprisonment, rape, and human trafficking in and out of UK.

Belgium: Europol report says that organized criminals in Europe increasingly rely on technology and social media to defraud victims. According to the report, extensive use of Internet is used for recruitment and marketing of human trafficking victims.

ASIA

Pakistan: Age old religious practice continues to fuel slavery of innocent children. According to the superstition, women whose first born has a very small head are obliged to sacrifice the first born at a shrine as servants to protect her subsequent children from being disabled by birth. Once the mothers wishes are fulfilled, their first born are left in the premises of a tomb. These children also are forced to wear steel helmets to restrict their growth and used for begging in the various parts of the country.

AFRICA

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe is criticized for failing to counteract human trafficking in the country. The country is the transition point of many women and children trafficked from Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, and Mozambic to South Africa. Zimbabwean women and children are also trafficked to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. Yet, the county has no legislation to fight against human trafficking.

Swaziland: Law enforcement rescued eight boys who were trafficked for labor exploitation. They were lured with a promise of high paying jobs in South Africa but ended up cutting trees for approximately .80 cents per each. The boys also found other victims who were trafficked to South Africa from Swaziland at the destination for the same reason.

Global human trafficking roundup (April 29, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

District of Columbia: Justice Department says that more than eighty percent of suspected human trafficking incidents between January 2008 and June 2010 involved prostitution or sexual exploitation of children. The Justice Department also reports that 48 percent of the investigated incidents involved adults while 40 percent of them involved children.

Colorado: Hidden camera investigation shows that prostitution is thriving in Colorado Spring. The investigator went into four massage spas with a hidden camera, and all of them offered sex for money. While neighbors say that prostitution at spas are no surprise, law enforcement has not done enough to crack down on prostitution at massage parlors.

Washington: A man pimping a teen girl out of a downtown Seattle hotel was sentenced 20 years in prison. He was the first defendant who was convicted under the new legislation with stiffer penalties. He was arrested during the sting after an undercover cop set up a date at a local hotel on Backpage.com. Police also recovered the photos of the teen and the other woman in lingerie during the investigation.

ASIA

Australia: Child protection agency scrutinized for its failure. The criticism came after the protection worker had no idea that the recommendation was made for the protection order to be lifted, the girl was being prostituted by her mother and her mother's boyfriend for a year. One opposition leader also criticized the current system not allowing the protection worker to talk to the child alone

Global human trafficking roundup (April 26, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

New York: Lawmakers proposed a new bill to increase more convictions on human trafficking. The new bill will extend interagency task force on human trafficking until September 1, 2013. The Task Force is set to expire in September 2011. New York has the fourth highest occurrences of human trafficking after California, Texas, and Florida.

Washington: Child trafficking is rampant in the Puget Sound area. Children as young as 11 are sold into prostitution by men who promise them to take care of them. Last year, 23 out 69 child victims were rescued from child prostitution in the Puget Sound area.

South Dakota: U.S. attorney is looking into a 34 year old man's alleged internet operation pimping on women in Chicago, Las Vegas, and South Dakota. He is charged with 24 total counts of pimping and hiring sexual activity and may face charges of human trafficking.

ASIA

Thailand: Police began its investigation on labor trafficking of 60 Burmese workers in garment factory. The workers were freed last week from the slavery labor in the garment factory in Bankok last week. Migrant workers are currently kept at guest houses without a work permit.

Global human trafficking roundup ( April 23-25, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

New York: New York doctor is held in prison in Cambodia for molesting a 14 year old boy. He went to Cambodia for volunteer work at a children's hospital. He was arrested in February for purchasing sex from a minor. If convicted, the doctor could face up to 15 years in jail.

Tennessee: Two Nashville men are charged with child prostitution and child porn. The two were arrested after the law enforcement saw the online advertisement for commercial sex of a minor on Backpage.com. The investigators said that one of the men was a photographer, and another was involved in exploitation.

Rhode Island: The UAE colonel case reflects growing problem of human trafficking in New England. One ICE officer says that ICE launched 651 investigation last year, more than twice the number in 2006.

Washington: Governor signed a bill to step up its effort to fight against human trafficking. The new bill expands the definition of human trafficking to include, forced labor, involuntary servitude, commercial sexual abuse of minor, and criminal sex acts. Law enforcement says that current human trafficking statute makes it harder for them to prosecute traffickers. They hope that the new statute will give clearer definition of the crime and make it easier to prosecute traffickers.

EUROPE

Russia: Thirteen international gang members were charged with trafficking women for prostitution abroad. The defendants include Russian, Israeli, and Moldovan citizens. Also, one of the gang members was a retired top intelligence officer from Russian government. They will be sentenced on Monday at the Moscow district office.

ASIA

UAE: UAE authority sees increasing number of human trafficking cases at courts. According to the annual report, the number of human trafficking cases prosecuted in 2010 were 58, up from 43 cases in 2009. The report also said that labor trafficking cases more common than sex trafficking cases last year.

AFRICA

Kenya: Corruption gives rise to human trafficking of children in Kenya. Many young girls and infants become primary targets of human trafficking to Western Europe. Though children go missing, police takes a little or no actions to fight against the crime. Also, the Kenyan law treats people who have been missing for more than seven years as deceased.

Global human trafficking roundup (April 19, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

Hawaii: Law enforcement says that massage parlors can be used for prostitution and sex trafficking. Though the law requires massage parlors to have license to practice, at least eight of them had no record of license in Honolulu.

Washington: Governor signed two anti-human trafficking bills into law. One of the two bills will expands the criminal definition of human trafficking, which will include forced labor, involuntary servitude, commercial sexual abuse, of a minor, criminal sex acts, and illegal human organ harvest. Another bill will authorize the use of money to support housings for victims and their families.

Maryland: A 31 year old man was charged with human trafficking after attempting to hire an undercover cop to work for him as a prostitute. He was during the sting that female officers worked undercover to see if they'd be solicited for sex.

California: Federal officiers said that they indicted 38 people in gang related prostitution ring. They conspired with owners of hotels and used the internet to prostitute underage girls. Federal officers also rescued 30 minors who were mostly runaways from the prostitution ring during the investigation. The indictment targets not only pimps but also women called bottom to recruit high school and junior high school girls for prostitution.

ASIA

The Philippines: Commission on Filipino Overseas says that it has received flood of complaints from victims since it launched a hotline for trafficking victims a month ago. Some of the complaints also led to court cases. But, the officer at Commission urged that more people should come forward to report human trafficking incidents.

AFRICA

South Africa: A man is on trial for allegedly trafficking a Swazi woman and pleaded not guilty. He allegedly trafficked a 19 year old woman and sexually exploited her for two years ago. According to the report, this is the first human trafficking case in West Cape. If convicted, he can face up to life in prison.

Global human trafficking roundup (April 15, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

New York: Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to forcing underage girls into prostitution. When sentenced, he will face minimum 10 years maximum life in prison as well as forfeiture of his residence and other property used for commission of his crime. He advertised sexual services of two women on the internet in his residence. He also took live videos of two women strip-pole dancing which could be accessed online for a fee paid by customers.

Florida: Law enforcement officials and health care providers receive training on human trafficking. Recently, women from Guatemala were smuggled into the U.S. with a promise of a job. But, they were forced into prostitution to sleep with dozens of men every day. Florida ranks the third highest the nation for human trafficking.

Oregon: A new child trafficking bill receives approval from Senate. The bill now goes to House for approval. The new bill removes the requirement that both pimp and John knows that the victim is a minor to force him/her into prostitution.

Texas: Feds caught fourth suspect who was running a sex trafficking ring in Rio Grande. This was the day after the indictment against three people running a teen sex trafficking ring was unsealed. They kept three teenagers at an apartment against their will and repeatedly raped them to force them into prostitution.

Washington: Federal prosecutor charged the second suspect in a doughnut shop child prostitution ring. He and his co-conspirator locked away runaway teens at an apartment to run a child prostitution at a doughnut shop. They advertised the sexual services of 13 year old online to attract johns.

EUROPE

UK: A new index which says the effectiveness of a government's anti-human trafficking efforts shows that UK's measure is less effective than Albania. Though UK has strong policies to prosecute traffickers and prevent human trafficking, it has poor policies to provide protection for victims.

Germany: Police arrested two men from Berlin for trafficking a 10 year old Costa Rican boy. According to the investigator, they started an aid organization to recruit children from Haiti. Then the two men have brought boys to Germany and sold them to pedophiles.

Global human trafficking roundup (April 1, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

New Jersey: Federal Judge approves of four lawsuits filed by four Moldovan sex tourism victims against a New Jersey millionaire, Anthony Bianchi under the Alien Tort Statute. Bianchi currently is serving 25 years in prison for traveling to foreign countries to have sex with boys in the age of 12 and 15. Bianchi's lawyer argued that the Alien Tort Statute does not apply to citizens and rape, apart from the context of genocide or war, is not actionable under the law. The judge disagreed finding that "the plain language of the ATS includes "no requirement of state action," and that Bianchi's targeting of children and the frequency of his crimes "is extreme enough for subject matter jurisdiction to exist under the ATS."

Minnesota: Human trafficking victims share pain and healing through art. A group of survivors appeared at the State Capitol Hill to raise the awareness of human trafficking and talked about their artworks. One trafficking survivor shared her experienced as a victim after being trafficked from Nigeria and forced into labor in Minnesota. Her trafficker controlled her movement and gave her a limited access to food. She was also threatened with deportation if she refused to listen.

Nevada: Las Vegas is a hub of child sex trafficking, the Las Vegas Interfaith Sponsoring Committee says. According to Shared Hope International, "1,496 children from 40 states were trafficked into and arrested for prostitution in Clark County, Nevada between January 1994 and July 2007.”

Washington: A man is convicted of promoting child prostitution under the new legislation that impose tougher penalty on the offense. He forced a 17 year old girl into prostitution on Backpage.com. But, initially, he denied the allegation and told the police that he was a drug dealer, not a pimp though he called himself "a pimp in action" on his Myspace page.

ASIA

Thailand: Thai police crackdowns on new lottery which offers the winner one night of sexual service with a woman. Police said that the lottery is becoming popular among the factory workers in Thailand, and it is a new form of human trafficking. The offenders would face 4 -8 year prison term upon conviction.

The Philippines: A British accountant and his Filipino girlfriend was charged with kidnapping and murdering a six year old girl in Cebu. The 48 year old British accountant allegedly kidnapped her in front of her school to use her for child pornography. Police found the body of the six year old victim that the couple dumped over the cliff. They also found child porn and the sex toys.

Global human trafficking roundup (February 19-21, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

Tennessee: FBI says human trafficking exists in east Tennessee. While he says that human trafficking cases are not common in the area, east Tennessee is a prime location for traffickers to set up a shop because of its proximity to interstate highway and the crowded tourist areas.

Texas: The three count indictment against ten people who forced young Mexican women into prostitution was unsealed yesterday. According to the indictment, the defendants were involved in transporting Mexican women and girls to the U.S. with the false expectation of legitimate jobs and forced them into sex slavery between 1999 and 2011.

Kentucky: A man was arrested for posting child pornography on his facebook pages under a pseudonym. According to the report, he used thirteen different profiles to send illicit images of children to others. The arrest was made after another man named facebook watcher reported him to the Kentucky law enforcement. After further investigation, FBI discovered that the suspect is a pastor at a local church in Kentucky.

Washington: A new bill was proposed to fight child prostitution in the state. The bill, if implemented, will allow the law enforcement to tape the conversation between suspected pimps and the child victims without a warrant. The bill aims to give law enforcement another tool to build evidence against pimps.

ASIA

UAE: Police busted a human trafficking ring that forced an Asian woman into prostitution. The arrest came after the victim texted her friends of her situation. When the police found the victim, she was locked up in a room. Police also arrested five men for sex trafficking the victim.

The Philippines: A Korean man was arrested for allegedly running a sex tourism business in Manila. According to the Immigration Bureau, he posed as a tourist guide at a travel agency to carry out his illicit activities.

Global human trafficking roundup (February 15, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

Texas: Police charged 59 people on prostitution related crimes in Arlington during the days leading up to and on the day of Super Bowl. According to the report, thirteen of them were visitors in the area, three men were believed to be pimps, and one faces a human trafficking charge.

Washington: Two men have pleaded guilty to forcing young women into prostitution. According to the federal prosecutor, they facilitated women's prostitution by providing cell phones, transportation, and motel rooms. They also used threats to force them into prostitution. The arrest was made after the 17 year old victim called her brother and said that she was held against her will at a motel.

South Carolina: The state authority creates a sex offender watch website to protect children from the criminals, including child traffickers. The new website allows a family to monitor registered sex offenders who are prohibited from residing within 1000 feet from school, day care, and children's recreation center, etc.

South Dakota: Three men from South Dakota and Iowa face commercial sex charges after online sting. If convicted, they all can face life in prison. The men were arrested after responding to the online ads posted as part of undercover operation by Homeland Security and the South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

EUROPE

UK: A Nigerian female pastor is facing a jail term for trafficking children and a woman to keep them as domestic servants in UK. According to the court document, she allegedly smuggled the victims into UK with false passports in 2000. Since then, the victims were kept as domestic workers and routinely subjected to physical abuse.

ASIA

UAE: Four women received jail term for sex trafficking other women in two different cases. One woman was sentenced to three years in jail for sex trafficking another women. Another woman and her assistance each received two year and a year jail sentence for forcing a victim into prostitution. The other woman received three year jail term for sex trafficking her victim. All of them will also face deportation after serving their jail terms.

The Philippines: Police intercepted nineteen victims of human trafficking before they were leaving for Malaysia, according to the report. The victims were illegally recruited by an agency and was about to board a commercial ferry. The interception was part of anti-human trafficking operation at ports in Zamboanga City.

Global human trafficking roundup ( January 22-24, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

Wisconsin: A Milwaukee man was sentenced 14 years in jail for pimping on a 14 year old girl. He admitted in court that he found the victim working the street last May. Though his lawyer argued that the man didn't realized that she was an underage girl and that she was already prostituting herself, the judge wanted to send a warning to other men who might be tempted to follow the man's example.

Washington: Seattle and Portland crack down on child prostitution. Though the two cities are labeled as a hub of sex trafficking, one report states that the actual problem of human trafficking in the two cities are not any worse than other cities. Meanwhile, Seattle has consistently shown the most juveniles rounded up in prostitution crackdowns for three years running now.

Oregon: The major of Portland city says that imperfect data on human trafficking in Portland does not diminish the crime of human trafficking. He also argues that because sex trafficking is hard to track, because victims often are afraid of come forward to report the crime. However, instead of an inaction, he argues that Portland should redouble its effort to fight human trafficking.

Vermont: According to a report released last week, Vermont should join 41 states with anti-human trafficking law. The Vermont Attorney General's office reported that though report suggests small number of human trafficking cases, the problem is likely to be much larger because of lack of awareness among public.

New York: Key federal, state, and local authorities launched anti-human trafficking task force in Westchester last month. According to the founder of task force, there have been major human trafficking cases in Westchester county, and the task force will further shed lights on more human trafficking cases in the area. There are many factors that make Westchester county as a prime location for human trafficking, including high immigration population, living circumstances requiring the presence of all types of workers.

LATIN AMERICA

Haiti: U.S. government announced additional $4.75 million to fight human trafficking in Haiti. The grant was distributed among the US organizations fighting against human trafficking. In 2010, Trafficking in Person estimated that over 200,000 children were enslaved before the massive earthquake

EUROPE

UK: Birmingham is a hub of child prostitution, police says. Children as young as 12 are pimped out of Birmingham by foreign gangs for as little as 10 pounds. A nonprofit representative says that last year, there were 100 girl and five boy victims, but this does not mean that there were only 105 children who were at risk.

ASIA

China: The authority announced that Chinese women are increasingly trafficked for forced marriage or prostitution abroad. Majority of victims are trafficked to Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa, according to the authority. Also, many victims are lured into leaving China and end up being forced into prostitution by criminal organizations that offer high paying job opportunities to them.

UAE: Prosecutor seeks a life sentence for three people who trafficked a woman from Bangladesh. The female victim came to UAE with a promise of a maid job by her brother. But, upon arrival, she was forced into prostitution.

Global human trafficking roundup (January 14, 2011)

NORTH AMERICA

Washington: Police nets two pimps who allegedly forced a 16 year old girl into prostitution. Police also charged a 55 year old state employee for purchasing sex from a minor. He admitted that he paid $400 to a man he called Prince to have sex with the 16 year old victim.

Oregon: Police denies previous statistics that police find two cases of child trafficking on daily basis. The controversy involves a news release citing police statistics after the mayor of Portland claimed that the city is a hub of human trafficking. The supervisor of police sex crime unit later said that the statistics is unreliable because police doesn't track down such statistics.

District of Columbia: Coalition of women's groups urges legislators to find easier ways to enforce the current anti-human trafficking law. The new bill will give law enforcements a stronger tools to fight against human trafficking by helping police convict traffickers. The current legislation requires police to "get consent from both parties being recorded to get recorded voice evidence for human-trafficking cases", and the new bill aims to eliminate such requirement.

Ohio: Two Russian women were charged with promoting prostitution and practicing medicine without license. Police is still investigating whether possible human trafficking ring is involved the case. According to the police, thought the advertisement only offered massage service, it suggested commercial sexual service.

ASIA

India: A human trafficking survivor launches an anti-human trafficking organization. She was trafficked and subject to physical and psychological abuse by her employer about 30 years ago. When she was sold again to adoption agency by her employer, she was sent to Canada then the U.S., where her adoptive parents helped her be healed. In New Delhi, young girls escaping from anti-Christian violence are preyed by traffickers for sexual exploitation. More than four girls are trafficked to Delhi, where they were sold to the placement agency. According to the report, police found two of the victims, and one of them returned home. However, the last one is still missing.

AFRICA

Ghana: Three siblings appeared before the court for trafficking 10 girls to Nigeria for prostitution. According to the report, the victims were also forced to sell "porridge kooko" during the day and turn over the profits to the traffickers.

Global human trafficking roundup (December 9, 2010)

NORTH AMERICA

Washington: Tacoma woman uses her donut shop for child prostitution. She took two 13 year old girls and forced them into prostitution after taking pictures and post them online. She often met up with johns at donut shop and took the men to the apartment, where two girls are held against their will.

Texas: A 44 year old man was indicted on charges related to human trafficking incident in 2007. He was arrested for kidnapping a 13 year old for more than a week for prostitution in 2007. The victim testified that he and his four accomplice tied her up, drugged, and locked her in a bedroom at a house. If convicted, the man is facing life sentence in prison.

Kentucky: Two men are facing charges on human trafficking. According to the police, they victimized a 15 year old who was under one of the men's care. They both are facing multiple charges including human trafficking, sodomy, rape, and sexual abuse of a minor.

Florida: FBI found 27 people who may be human trafficking victims during the raid. The raid was conducted inside of two homes and one local restaurant. The FBI spokesperson said that 8 of them were found in a residence in Clearwater and 19 people in a Largo home. He also said that they were Asian and Hispanic origin cramped in a small house all together. But, they had all of their basic needs.

Canada: Federal justice minister expressed his disappointment on Craigslist for its failure to remove adult service section. He sent a letter asking Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craigslist to remove adult service section on Craigslist Canada last month, but Craigslist has yet to removed the adult service section on its Canadian website. The minister once again urged the company to shut down adult service section as critics say Craigslist facilitate child prostitution and sex trafficking in Canada.

EUROPE

The Netherlands: The council of Armsterdam began a campaign to combat human trafficking. The campaign will focus on sex trafficking of women in the city. Since 2007, the city provided aftercare assistance to the victims including, medical care and social care. Each year, it assists 150 victims, among which 20 are minors. The campaign effort will include awareness raising among johns in red light district, advertisement through media outlets, etc.

ASIA

Indonesia: A woman returned home blind from Saudi Arabia, where she worked as housemaid. She was physically assaulted by her employer for no reason and continuously tortured. She lost her eyesight when her employer repeatedly slammed her head against the wall. According to the statistics generated by a nonprofit, 43 percent of the migrant workers working in Saudi Arabia are exploited by their employers.

AFRICA

Egypt: Approximately 250 refugees from Eritrea are treated like slaves by their traffickers. The refugees paid smuggling fee to their traffickers to enter Israel. But, instead, they are kept in hostage to demand money from their families and friends. The refugees are kept in chain and live under threats and violence.