[PEN-L:9270] FW: CIA Albanian Gangs' Sex Slaves Sold on British Streets for Bl ack Work Kapital to Oust Milosevic

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> Subject:
>           Kosovo Sex Slaves Held In Soho Flats
>      Date:
>           7 Jul 1999 11:24:23 -0000
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> THE TIMES OF LONDON, July 4, 1999
>
> Kosovo Sex Slaves Held In Soho Flats
>
> Street of shame: an Albanian hides her face after being forced into
> prostitution in London Photograph: Fernando Cavaccanti
>
> by Edin Hamzic and Maeve Sheehan
>
> Detectives are investigating the trafficking of hundreds of young women
> as sex slaves from Albania and Kosovo to Britain. Some have been sold,
> some were kidnapped and others were tricked with false passports and
> promises of work.
>
> They are being forced to work in brothels where they can earn £1,500 a
> week or more, often selling sex to 15 clients a day. In most cases
> almost all the money goes to the gangsters.
>
> One Albanian ring linked to trafficking women for the British sex trade
> was smashed recently by the Metropolitan police vice squad and officers
> are gathering intelligence on others. Albanian criminals are known to
> rent flats in Soho, the capital's red light district; in some of them up
> to 30 Albanian women work as prostitutes.
>
> The human trade begins in Tirana, the Albanian capital, where a Sunday
> Times reporter infiltrated the armed gangsters. Posing as an "agent" for
> a businessman who needed girls to work in "clubs" in Manchester and
> Glasgow, he made contact with a man who offered "young, pretty, clean
> and clever girls".
>
> Over beer and pizza in a cafe, the man said the women could be delivered
> to Italy and Germany for £830 each. For them to be sent to Britain, the
> cost was a further £1,330.
>
> When the "agent" expressed concern that the girls' families might try to
> reclaim them, the supplier said they had all come from villages situated
> in northern Albania and that the families had either been paid off or
> did not know of the girls' whereabouts.
>
> Other girls are victims of the strife in Kosovo. Using Albanian
> underworld contacts in London, a Sunday Times reporter was introduced to
> a Kosovan woman who had been forced into prostitution. In a hotel room
> in Earls Court, west London, he found Djemila, a nurse who had fled her
> home in the Drenica region last year.
>
> The family moved to Shijak, near Tirana, where Djemila tried and failed
> to find work. She decided to join her brother in Germany and asked a
> local criminal to help her as she could not obtain a visa. He told her
> this would cost DM6,000 (£2,000).
>
> "Initially they didn't want to talk to me if I could not show them the
> money, but after a week they changed their minds. They suggested they
> would take me to Germany and that my brother could pay for me there. I
> had no choice. I agreed," she said.
>
> Djemila was smuggled across the Adriatic to Italy in a speedboat and
> then spent several days concealed in the back of a lorry with another
> Albanian girl. They were in complete darkness with neither fresh air nor
> sufficient food.
>
> When the lorry stopped and the doors opened, Djemila was bundled into a
> blue car where two men were waiting for her. She realised she was not in
> Germany when she saw a traffic sign for London.
>
> "I was taken to a street with beautiful white houses and locked in a
> room in a basement flat," she said. "They gave me some pasta to eat.
> That night I was so afraid that I cried myself to sleep." The next
> morning, a man came to her room and told her it would cost another
> £7,000 to get her from London to Germany.
>
> "He told me that I would have to have sex with men for money and when I
> said no, he got very angry and started beating me." She was beaten to
> the point of collapse. When she recovered, the first customers were led
> to her room.
>
> "I didn't know what to do. I was so afraid. They told me they would kill
> me if I didn't do what they told me. They kept me as a prisoner in the
> flat for four months - I was forced to work unpaid as a prostitute
> around the clock.
>
> "I never left the house once, the windows were nailed shut and we hardly
> ever saw sunlight. Now I can go out, but only when accompanied by
> someone."
>
> Threats of violence are all too real: the intermediary used by The
> Sunday Times to contact Djemila was later fatally stabbed by a criminal
> associate in a row over a mobile phone.
>
> Scotland Yard believe the trafficking of women from Albania and other
> Balkan states has been exacerbated by the vast human displacement caused
> by war. Many Kosovan women who sought refuge in Albania were vulnerable
> to exploitation by local gangsters. In one refugee camp, six women
> reportedly disappeared within a month.
>
> The first evidence of the methods of Albanian trafficking emerged late
> last year when an Albanian woman escaped from a flat in Bayswater,
> central London. She claimed that her pimp, Shemsi Gjika, 35, had
> persistently abused her physically. The woman, 23, said Gjika had duped
> her into travelling to London where she had believed she would work as a
> waitress.
>
> A family friend had introduced her to Gjika and another Albanian, Fatmir
> Gashi, 27, who arranged a false Greek passport for her. She told police
> that within two days of arriving at Heathrow she was set to work as a
> prostitute in a Soho flat.
>
> When she finally escaped, police offered her protection and a safe house
> in return for testifying against her captor. Gjika has now been
> convicted of living on immoral earnings. Police are still looking for
> Gashi, who disappeared soon after his arrest.
>
> Detective Inspector Paul Holmes, of the London vice squad, said Albanian
> women have been appearing in dramatically increasing numbers in brothels
> in London. Although some were aware that they would be working as
> prostitutes, others had been duped and coerced into the sex trade.
>
> "Women are sold a package. The bottom line is to agree to come to
> England. Then they enter into different arrangements," he said. "Once
> they arrive, the deception starts. Their passports are seized, they are
> kept in safe houses, they can be closely monitored. Their earnings have
> to be handed over to repay ridiculous debts incurred to get them to
> London. Then you have a situation of virtual enslavement."
>
>
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