Court convicts 4 Israelis of heading international human trafficking ring


The Tel Aviv District Court convicted four Israelis on Thursday of heading a massive human-trafficking ring that reached out of Israel’s borders to such countries as Cyprus, Belgium and England, forcing hundreds of women into prostitution.

At the end of a two-year international investigation, the suspects were arrested in 2009 along with over 20 suspects in several other countries. The convicted ringleader, Rami Saban, a 37-year-old resident of Magadim, was previously under investigation for alleged involvement in bringing hired killers from Belarus to assassinate leading Israeli underworld figure Nissim Alperon. Along with Saban, the court also convicted three of his accomplices, including brothers David and Yaakov Moraidi and Shmuel Malka.

In what the verdict called “one of the most complex and extensive human-trafficking affairs to be uncovered in recent years, if not ever,” Saban and his associates used a network which located hundreds of you women in towns and villages in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan. Contacts would then persuade the women to arrive in Israel, promising them that they would be employed as waitresses and bar dancers. In some of the cases, the suspects violently abused the women, who were smuggled into Israel from Egypt and Turkey.

According to the court’s verdict, some of the defendants owned and operated 12 brothels in Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan between 1999 and 2004, later operating a phone sex line between 2005 and 2006. The suspects received between $5,000-$7,000 for each woman, depending on her physical appearance, and in some cases Saban was introduced as a partner in the establishments in which the women were employed, receiving 30% of the profits. Some of the women were told that they would have to work for free or for very low sums of money at first, ostensibly to cover the cost of bringing them to Israel, with the women being paid between 100 and 400 shekels for their services.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/court-convicts-4-israelis-of-heading-international-human-trafficking-ring-1.406977

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

babyfinland posted:
In what the verdict called “one of the most complex and extensive human-trafficking affairs to be uncovered in recent years, if not ever,” Saban and his associates used a network which located hundreds of you women in towns and villages in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

I can't for the life of me think why there were pogroms in Tzarist Russia.

WAIt hold on, the jews in tsarist russia were involved in international human-trafficking of women in prostitution?????? Hm. Scales. Eyes. Mods.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:
So on this note, literaly 15 minutes after i posted in this thread last night i drove up to see my parents who live in a rather jewish area of the city, and noticed this on the car in front of me.



The second one along says "MMA Israel" and we all know what the one on the right is, but do you guys know what those other suspicious fascist-looking icons are at all? I wanna get a handle on this douchebag's weird ideology

"australianism"

jools posted:
mma israel

did you do any damage to it

Unfortunately not, I failed my revolutionary duty beacuse i had to pickup the thai food before it got cold

aerdil posted:
israel is one of the top exporters of both humans and blood diamonds iirc

and fertilizer too! HMMMMMMMMMMMm