Three Russian-speaking Estonians were managing an extensive prostitution business in Finland and they are suspected of having brought about 50 Russian-speaking Estonian women to Finland to work as prostitutes, Finnish news agency STT reports.
The women, born in , and , are accused of having started the prostitution business in the spring of , the Estonian daily Eesti Paevaleht writes on Friday.
According to STT the three women were Russian-speaking Estonians who brought about 50 Russian-speaking Estonian women to Finland to work as prostitutes. Two Finnish men are accused of renting 33 apartments in Finland and giving them to the three women to use. According to the Finnish Central Criminal Police the men earned euros for each apartment per day. According to charges the accused ran the prostitution business in Tampere, Lahti, Hameenlinna, Jyvaskyla, Turku, Joensuu, Kuopio, Seinajoe, Mikkeli and Varkaus until this year's March when the police shut down their operation.
The police discovered the network at the end of investigating another crime, STT reports. The pimps used websites Sihteeriopisto and Sexwork to advertise the prostitutes. According to STT the three accused women kept a work schedule for the prostitutes and a prostitute worked in Finland for a week or two at a time. According to Finnish police no women were forced to become prostitutes and none of them are underaged.
The three women and the two men are accused of pimping. The trial will start on Monday in the Pirkanmaa District Court. Estonian news - news.
