UK Residents from Latvia jailed a total of 16 years

From the EastLondonLines:

A couple from Poplar, have been been jailed for a total of 16 years April 27 2012 for trafficking women into the UK and forcing them to work as prostitutes.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that Sandra Maliņa, 22 and Ainars Zvirgzds, 44, lured women from Latvia and Lithuania with the promise that they could get jobs in massage salons, and that sex with the clients was optional.

The prosecution case was that when they arrived in the UK, their passports were taken off them and they were sent to work as prostitutes. It was alleged that the women were beaten by their captors, and threatened with a gun, if they refused to comply.

Detectives arrested Malina and Zvirgzds at their Poplar home address in Susan Constant Court on July 15 2011. They were acting on information received from a friend of one of their victims.

Three women victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described the treatment they received at the hands of the couple:

Victim A

The 20 year old woman described how a friend, who worked for Zvirgzds, contacted her, and said she was earning between £200 and £300 a week working in a massage salon. The woman was told that she could earn extra money if she had sex with the clients, but that this was optional. Victim A accepted the job, but stated that she did not want to have sex with the clients.

Zvirgzds bought her a plane ticket to the UK. She arrived on May 18, 2010, was met at Stansted Airport by Zvirgzds who drove her to an address in Plaistow, East London, in his Jaguar.

Victim A was informed that a profile of her would be put on the Internet, and that she was to have sex with her clients. She received her first client later that day, who paid £100 for a sex act, and was told that she would receive £40. Victim A described how she felt ‘scared and disgusted.’

Upon arriving in the UK victim A was told to give her passport to Zvirgzds, which she did, feeling that she was unable to refuse. Her passport was later found in a safe in a bedroom wardrobe when police raid the couple’s home. During her time working for Zvirgzds she was made to perform a number of sexual acts in return for money at multiple addresses.

It was alleged that she was given drugs and shown a gun by Zvirgzds in order to gain her compliance.

Victims B and C

Two other women, referred to as victim B and victim C, also gave evidence in court, about their time spent in forced prostitution, under the control of Zvirgzds and Maliņa. Both of these women were found in the same premises as Zvirgzds and Maliņa when they were arrested, along with a firearm, concealed above a bathroom wall cabinet. They were 22 and had their passports taken from them.

Detective Sergeant John O’Brien, from the Met’s Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Command, said: “Often criminals will suggest the streets of London are paved with gold and that they can offer them a better life and these vulnerable people are then exploited when arriving in the UK. No-one should be able to control another person and exploit them for personal gain. This case highlights that if you come forward and talk to the police, we will do all that we can to bring people such as Zvirgzds and Maliņa to justice.”

Ainars Zvirgzds was jailed Friday April 27 2012 for a total of 13 and a half years, having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing on January 19 2012. Zvirgzds was convicted of a number of crimes including: trafficking into the UK for sexual exploitation, controlling prostitution for gain and possession of a firearm.

Sandra Maliņa had previously been sentenced to two and a half years, having been found guilty of two counts of controlling prostitution for gain in relation to victims B and C, although was acquitted on all charges related to victim A.

Human trafficking as a crime does not solely relate to the sex industry and prostitution. In March 2011 a woman from Harrow, 68, received a suspended jail sentence for keeping a Tanzanian woman as a modern-day slave at her Harrow bungalow.

The Centre for Social Justice is currently carrying out a research study: “to identify how the UK is reacting to the number of slaves kept within its borders. This review will explore the nature and extent of this growing problem, and develop evidence-led policy recommendations and an implementation strategy to enable the UK to be the benchmark for anti-slavery practice in Europe and the world.”


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I am wondering to see such reaction in the country, which built their Monarchy on using slaves in the most recent past! Not more than 150 years passed since the slavery system in the world was almost vanished.

And looking and those faces of Maliņa and Zvirgzds, which obviously belong to the Latvian citizenship at first, I can't imagine how clever the girls are, to build contacts with such faces people!

What do they expect then? Massage saloons, ha-ha! On our forums, you can read quite a lot of ads and introductions about such "massage saloons" and "crazy escorts" as well.

Girls, this is the true story about what happens in real life!

Why people indulge in wrong means to earn money even though right path is also available.
To earn money from flash trade is acceptable but to make them fool and earn their hard earning by betraying them is totally not acceptable. These brokers are really very cruel people and you see these will be available later on in some how in different form since this is an old trade and running through the centuries .

When we see in India young girls being motivated to get good job in India and having good prospect and some time her boy friend betrayed and put into this brothel industries . You can see girls from Nepal, Bangladesh and remote India into big metropolitan cities like Mumbai , Delhi where these girls being put into such a bad condition and serve the customers merely $2 -$10 depending upon the features of the girls .

And this is a big racket . I would say legalization of prostitution in India is must to save guard the rights of these innocent girls and get better facilities.

Slavery is every where now it is hidden but it still exist in the form of work. You see people who are working more than 12 hours and getting very less pay is also a form of slavery.
And these industrial countries still playing the hidden slavery game in the semi developed world.
You just see in China there is also slavery and lot of pressure to produce and you can see the result of huge pollution and social problem.

I am very sad when we lose our values and attracted by material world forced us with such problem and this is good since we have to be derived by some ideas but what will be the result must be consider. Who will be the beneficial by such act and how long this legacy will go on since its there till you have good figure and serve the customers as soon as you loose the charm you will lose the customers and see the consequences because there would no saving since keeping the lifestyle of such high beauty requires investments .

You see the legacy of colonization will be consumed soon by UK and others and then you will see the same problem there. Since the world equation has been changing so rapidly and its impact is also being observed.

So this is the transitional face and soon world economy change and new world order will be there
Hope so it will be much better than the past or existing one

Agreeing to this!

But you will wonder... this is a well-known practice in Latvia, specially in public trading area. Women are supposed to work from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. for minimal salary, selling goods or clothes... it's very regular.


Let's hope this order WILL be better than the current one; despite I doubt....

Only if one nation is strong, the folks of this nation would enjoy a good salary and a good life. I don't believe there is any kind of humanity or values in the world. Currently, the West is the supermercy and the winner. It's reasonable they enjoy this.

It's useless for semi developed nations such as China---my motherland to groan about anything. What she should do is just striving to win over them one day and even revenge on them. At that time, it's reasonable for us to do anything.

When Chinese groan about Nanjing Raping--as a Chinese myself, I feel greatly ashamed of it. I want to say, what you should think about is that how could you do Tokyo Raping one day but talk about how pityful you are. Ha..I hold no hatred to Japan. To be frank, Chinese should spent more time to cooperate with Japan to think about New York raping or the second Pearl Habor revenge.

The world is manipulated by strongers. Weakers can only kneel down before them and wait to be insulted.

Those people don't do well in their study previously. They reap what they sowed before. They deserve this kind of miserable life.Selling goods or clothes? guys who do this kind of work outside would not find a elegant and well-educated girl, for they lost the game of life.

It's my shame to be born in China but Japan, though both are yellows. Japanese spent several decades play a game and perfectly win over the West. To be frank, I admire them very much.

In addition, Japan is the only nation that never accept African refugees. I really don't understand why western nations accept African refugees, including Lativa. To show their kindness or make up the shortage of domestic shortage of labor? Why don't they work for themselves? Since they are lazy and prefer to accept blacks to be their slave, why they always groan about the socail problems caused by these black immigrants. Ridiculous! They reap what they sowed before. Japan is also filled with old people and has a shortage of labor, but they prefer to work after they retire rather than absorb 'black slave'. The mixture of blacks and whites is rightly caused by the West himself.

When a nation is so weak that only girls have chance or ability to save it. No offence, sorry. I dare say that there's little possiblity for them to win. When I see "It seems you're the only army to save this land!", I really feel sorry for this beautiful land. Girls are a group of people that boys should attempt to protect even at the cost of their life. Though Latvians always groan about the 's*x tour', but what practical actions have they done?
Those 'rapists' from US or West Europe are new colonizers who are only interested to steal virginity from alien girls. It's useless to talk about humanity and politeness with them.They are a group of gangsters only interested to fuck everywhere.

Girls save this land? Where are the guys? They are killing time in the club or bedroom?
Why don't they strive to make their motherland stronger and wealthier? Then one day it's they that can fuck everywhere in those ever rapist nations. To be frank, I don't think in future Latvian guys could fuck everywhere in UK. Sorry, no offence. I am also not very sure about whether China could do it one day. However, I believe at least we have to try.

Once the girls of one nation are taken as sluts by other nations, the dignity and hope of this nation are fading away.

Anyway, no one should give up.

In 1869, at that time Japan was still very weak. Oneday, several drunk Frenchmen don't behave well and disobel local laws in Japan. According to local laws, some Japanese cops kill them. Afterwards, French government said compell Japanese gorvenment to execute those Japanese cops. For fear of the power of the French military power, they can only do it.
Then those Japanese cops kneel down on the ground facing those Frenchmen, pull out their sammurai swords, stab themselves and try to pull out their organs then throw them to those Frenhmen, saying 'bastrad Frenchmen, this is the soul of sammurai' At this day, those
French cowards were really scared.

In 1908, Japan defeated Russia Empire and in 1939, they humiliate US in Pearl Habour.

However, in 1945, US use nuke to surrender Japan. General Mark Arthur establish RAA in Japan which is aimed to offer s*xual requirements for US garrisons. At that time, US soldier can use a bag of rice to gain a Japanese woman. Even Japanese boys are humiliated, some of them are recruited to serve US army female officers or nurses and even gays in US army.
However, now those rapists don't dare do this in Japan anymore.

Oh common, Guest... or I suppose, you are 'wang' posting as a guest now... We already know on this forum that you are trying to revenge for something, to co-operate with somebody to create a war or anything like this... common. I tend to believe most of Chinese do not have such dark thoughts. Look at those Indian guys which have the same level count in population. Raping cases are so rare and punished. Having 1+ milliard of people, India still very differs from China. They do not want a war.We all come in peace, that's what I believe in,too.


Just take a note that not everybody in this world is enlighten with intellect. People are not all the same like You, a guy who's got an "education" in the "free" government's program, which washed your brains completely. Now look at you: you've got what you call an education, but it seems you are not being educated at all. You still look for your self, for another country to live, for a woman which would handle all of your caprices. I doubt it may be called 'education'.

Now turn back to Latvia. First of all, I think Yuta was meaning women are supposed to work selling clothes or goods, and she wrote about that. Now you transformed this phrase in your brains to 'guys selling clothes', despite it was not even written! How many things or events you transform in your brains clockwise down? May be this could be a reason of your cropped thinking?..

Guys do not sell clothes in Latvia, and only on Riga Central Market you could see a few of men trading goods or food. I've spend so many years here and I'm seeing most of guys doing mostly technical, building or auto-related work. Like any other men on Earth. Also, most men are in Latvian government.


I tend to think Latvia is still not having lots of black men living here. Because it's too cold country for them, too poor. If refugees will get more free money than native citizens, it will lead to the revolution, I'm sure. And what kind of slavery job they could perform in Latvia, haha! Even local people do not have a constant job sometimes. There is about 20% of unemployment in Latvia. What are you talking about? What kind of slaves? Sounds like bullshit... but here:


I must agree with you... Latvian guys are too weak to protect their girls! May be with some rare exclusions... but it is quite logical. Latvia do not has a common vector in politics. That could be a reason.


Sad to say, but I may agree to this as well... with one exception: I'm sure each nation has sluts. I'm sure China has huge amount of sluts, and while entering the 'civilized' world this amount will only grow. Latvian problem is that here they have less than 2 mln. people in count. Considering sluts and prostitutes of Latvia took the niche 10-15 years ago, this trace is still visible. But the newest generation of Latvian girls are not always sluts... unfortunately, this image was broken and now it could not be restored easily...

I can't comment your words about Japan. For me, Japanese are not only warriors, they have a great cuisine, philosophy of life. Wars are created by governments. Peace is created by regular people. I'm from regular people on this planet. Japanese also have lots of sins, remembering their atomic stations were destroyed couple of years ago by earthquake... Earth will punish any nation for their sins anyway. Governments and armies can't do it in such perfect and destroying way.

Bro
Bro appears like my elder brother, I like him. ^^

Thanks pal.
I think if we would be brothers, I would teach you to make love, not war

Bro
>< Could you help me to catch a chick in future when I am in Latvia?^^

Sorry pal! I'm not giving catching lessons.

good that they were caught