11 July 2025
(Photo: Dnipropetrovs'k Regional Prosecutor's Office)
Law enforcement officers in the Dnipro region have served four people with a notice of suspicion of recruiting and moving citizens for the purpose of using them in labor slavery in Odesa region.
This was reported by the press service of the State Border Guard Service.
According to the investigation, the offenders recruited socially vulnerable citizens in Donetsk and Dnipro regions, promising them housing and work, and then transported them to Odesa region, where they promised free housing, food and employment.
Instead, according to the Dnipropetrovs'k Regional Prosecutor's Office, people were settled in a former barn converted into a dormitory with inadequate conditions. They were forced to work for free on the hardest agricultural work.
The suspects took away their documents and means of communication. If the recruits tried to leave the place of detention on their own, the group members exerted psychological pressure on them and threatened to use force. During the searches, 16 people were in the building. Draft records, phones, and cars were seized.
Currently, one of the suspects has been placed in custody as a measure of restraint, while the others have been placed under round-the-clock house arrest.
In June, a resident of Odesa promised girls employment as maids in a hotel, but instead sent them into sexual slavery. The 27-year-old Odesa resident, in collusion with currently unidentified persons, organized the search, selection and recruitment of Ukrainian women to provide intimate services in an EU country.
Earlier, in Mykolaiv, four residents were accused of manufacturing and distributing pornographic video products for sale, as well as human trafficking, committed by a group of people. The investigation established that a 47-year-old woman organized an interregional online porn studio and involved two women aged 41 and 44 who acted as administrators, as well as a 45-year-old "web model".
Кирило Бойко