WAGES OF SIN
Slovakian girls brought to Scotland and then sold as brides or forced to work as prostitutes by gang
THESE shocking images show a sex trafficking gang gleefully brandishing cash made from an evil trade in vulnerable women from Slovakia.
At the High Court in Glasgow yesterday, Vojtech Gombar, 61, Anil Wagle, 37, Jana Sandorova, 28, and Ratislav Adam, 31, were found guilty of involvement in forcing women into prostitution and slavery.
One pregnant woman was sold for £10,000 to a Nepalese man outside a city centre Primark store, to “sleep with him
FROM PAGE ONE and be his wife”. In a shocking video obtained by the Record, sleazy Adam holds up hundreds of euros as he sneers into the camera, then stuffs them in to his wallet.
A woman hands him the money as she sits counting €50 notes and filling one of two money boxes.
In the four-minute video, posted on the gang’s social media, the woman counts €600 on to the table of a seedy flat in Glasgow’s Govanhill.
Another man is laughing as he poses with a pile of notes before folding them into a thick wedge he parades to the camera.
Another picture obtained by the Record shows ringleader Vojtech Gombar covered in reams of £100 notes.
Police, who cracked the trafficking ring in an operation dubbed Operation Synapsis, described the crimes as “despicable”.
Detective Inspector Steven McMillan, who led the investigation, said: “It’s horrific to think that people think it is acceptable to buy and sell other human beings as a commodity, to have no thought for the impact and trauma it is going to have on them.”
Over the course of the investigation, officers helped more than a dozen suspected victims, aged between 18 and 25, to safety.
The buyers were mainly men from Pakistan who wanted EU citizenship so they could live and work in Europe, and wanted the women to become their wives.
Some victims were used as prostitutes while others were abused by the men who bought them.