Sex Trafficking2010
Sweden SE
A 61-year-old Swedish man procured customers for a 17-year-old Slovakian girl for the purpose of sexual exploitation. He has previously been sentenced for procuring in 2005, he had a brothel in his house 2005. A 38-year-old man from Slovakia, living in Malmö. He has been organising the prostitution of the girl. He has been suspected of procuring several times before, but there have been no convictions. A 26-year-old man that met the 17-year-old girl in Slovakia when she had been thrown out by her family. The man promised to take her to Germany where she would earn money picking strawberries, but he sold her into prostitution and then later on to Denmark and the end destination was Staffanstorp in Sweden. He lied about the money that she was promised. He drove her to customers.
Forced Labor2011
Sweden SE
Police in Gothenburg have detained three men on suspicion of trafficking Romanian women into Sweden for sexual exploitation. The men are under suspicion for trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and aggravated pimping. The men were brought in after a raid on several locations in the greater Gothenburg area carried out by the county police’s special unit for serious organised crime. The sex crimes have mainly been carried out in the Rosenlund area of the city, which is generally associated with street prostitution. The police operation was launched as a result of lengthy surveillance investigations and according to the prosecutor there are at least ten women that have been exploited by the men. The police declined to speculate on how the investigation would develop but on Wednesday said that they do not rule out further arrests. So far this year, the police have reported 170 incidents of sex purchasing in Gothenburg.
Forced Labor2010
Sweden SE
Two 25 yrs old men from Romania lured two 16 year old children from Gugesti, a village in Romania to come to Sweden where they would get good jobs. In order to legally get the boys out of the nation, the parents signed a consent form. The form requires an address where the children will be living. The traffickers provided a fraudulent address (in fact, the address is to a prison in Finland!). As soon as the boys arrived in Sweden they were forced to steal to provide money for the men. They stole a car, food and telephones during their first two months. At least of the boys was beaten.