Greegor
January 30th 07, 11:22 PM
On Jan 29, 8:54 pm, "spd" > wrote:
> The services of the agency that was virtually selling children to the
> USA cost up to $20,000
>
> Russian and US special services have conducted a special operation in
> Moscow to arrest members of an international criminal group that was
> dealing with the trafficking of children. The operation was completed
> successfully. "The group was conducting illegal activities for several
> years under the guise of various public services," Deputy Prosecutor
> General of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky said Tuesday.
>
> According to the official, several Russian and American citizens set
> up a firm which they named as Yunona. The company was registered in
> California. The firm was collecting confidential information about
> children in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Guatemala and
> several other countries. The criminals were selling the collected
> information to adoption agencies. "It has been proved as a result of
> investigation that the organization was involved in the adoption of
> Aleksei Geiko who subsequently died in the USA in 2005," Sergei
> Fridinsky told reporters.
>
> The illegal company had a network of agents in various countries of
> the world. The agents were digging for information in children's homes
> and other social institutions with the help of bribes. The services of
> the child-trafficking agency cost from $10,000 to $20,000 for each
> client. Many of those US-based families that paid the agency for the
> services have never been able to adopt children from foreign
> countries.
>
> The criminal activities of the company were ceased owing to the
> information exchange between Russian and US law-enforcement agencies.
> Yunona's California-based office was closed on January 6. Police
> officers raided other branch offices of the company in Russia's
> Krasnodar region several days later. A criminal case has been filed in
> connection with the inspections. The investigation is underway.
>
> The founder and the owner of the human trafficking agency, Ivan
> Jerdev, and two of his employees, Nick Sims and Alex Nikolenko, were
> arrested in the beginning of 2006 in the USA. The criminals have
> received considerable amounts of money from child-loving, albeit
> childless US families. The clients' expectations to adopt a child were
> not meant to come true, though.
>
> Up to three million children live without parental care in present-day
> Russia. The majority of them are being kept in specialized
> institutions. As a rule, Russian families do not tend to adopt
> somebody else's children even if they cannot have the one of their
> own.
>
> Discuss this article on Pravda.Ru English Forum
Kane wrote
> When will we start arresting the principals in domestic adoption.
It won't be long now.
> The services of the agency that was virtually selling children to the
> USA cost up to $20,000
>
> Russian and US special services have conducted a special operation in
> Moscow to arrest members of an international criminal group that was
> dealing with the trafficking of children. The operation was completed
> successfully. "The group was conducting illegal activities for several
> years under the guise of various public services," Deputy Prosecutor
> General of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky said Tuesday.
>
> According to the official, several Russian and American citizens set
> up a firm which they named as Yunona. The company was registered in
> California. The firm was collecting confidential information about
> children in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Guatemala and
> several other countries. The criminals were selling the collected
> information to adoption agencies. "It has been proved as a result of
> investigation that the organization was involved in the adoption of
> Aleksei Geiko who subsequently died in the USA in 2005," Sergei
> Fridinsky told reporters.
>
> The illegal company had a network of agents in various countries of
> the world. The agents were digging for information in children's homes
> and other social institutions with the help of bribes. The services of
> the child-trafficking agency cost from $10,000 to $20,000 for each
> client. Many of those US-based families that paid the agency for the
> services have never been able to adopt children from foreign
> countries.
>
> The criminal activities of the company were ceased owing to the
> information exchange between Russian and US law-enforcement agencies.
> Yunona's California-based office was closed on January 6. Police
> officers raided other branch offices of the company in Russia's
> Krasnodar region several days later. A criminal case has been filed in
> connection with the inspections. The investigation is underway.
>
> The founder and the owner of the human trafficking agency, Ivan
> Jerdev, and two of his employees, Nick Sims and Alex Nikolenko, were
> arrested in the beginning of 2006 in the USA. The criminals have
> received considerable amounts of money from child-loving, albeit
> childless US families. The clients' expectations to adopt a child were
> not meant to come true, though.
>
> Up to three million children live without parental care in present-day
> Russia. The majority of them are being kept in specialized
> institutions. As a rule, Russian families do not tend to adopt
> somebody else's children even if they cannot have the one of their
> own.
>
> Discuss this article on Pravda.Ru English Forum
Kane wrote
> When will we start arresting the principals in domestic adoption.
It won't be long now.