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Subject: [proletar] CNN: Trafficking gang to be sentenced in London
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CNN.com
Trafficking gang to be sentenced in London
By the CNN Wire Staff
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Detective describes the case as "sad and harrowing"
* Police say their investigation started with a handwritten note left at a
hotel
* The group members have pleaded guilty to trafficking and prostitution
offenses
* They were arrested last year after an undercover investigation
RELATED TOPICS
* Prostitution and Sex Workers
London, England (CNN) -- A group of people who trafficked underage girls to
London to sell them for sex will be sentenced Tuesday for trafficking and
prostitution offenses, police said.
The three women and a man pleaded guilty to the charges Monday in Harrow
Crown Court, north of London.
They were arrested a year ago after an undercover investigation revealed they
were trying to sell girls as young as 14 for sex.
"This is a sad and harrowing case that involved the main defendants
effectively selling the virginity of girls as young as 13 for as much as
150,000 pounds ($231,300)," said Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Martin,
head of the Metropolitan Police Service's Human Exploitation and Organized
Crime Command.
The investigation began in September 2009 after a woman dropped off a
handwritten note at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel in London's upscale
Knightsbridge neighborhood. The note was addressed to the owner of the hotel
and mentioned a rented house with girls available, though it didn't say for
what, police said.
"I have 12 girls ready from the age 14-20 years, who are living all over the
U.K.," the note read.
Concerned staff at the hotel alerted police, who traced the phone number on
the note and the woman's car to an address in Wigan, near Manchester in
northern England. That was where the woman, Fatima Hagnegat, 24, lived with her
husband, Rassoul Gholampour, 30, police said.
An undercover officer then called the number on the note to ask about hiring
girls for a client. He spoke to Hagnegat's aunt, Marohkh Jamali, 41, who said
she could arrange a party for four to five people that night with girls from
Iran, England and Eastern Europe, police said.
The aunt said the girls would be between the ages of 14 and 20, police said.
A week later, the officer met Jamali at the Lancaster London hotel, which
agreed with police to be the venue for the undercover officer's meetings with
the defendants.
Jamali told the officer she could provide girls between the ages of 14 and
20. She said some of the girls were virgins, and that a number of them were
available for a full range of sexual acts, police said.
Over the next two weeks, Jamali e-mailed the officer 28 times with pictures
of several girls 14 and older, saying they were available for sex.
The officer then contacted Jamali to arrange a meeting with the girls. Jamali
said she would bring four or five of them, including two 13-year-olds, to
London and that she wanted at least 50,000 pounds ($77,000) and as much as
150,000 pounds for each one, police said.
Jamali went to the hotel the next day with Hagnegat and six girls, two of
whom were 14, one who was 17, and others who were 18 or older. Officers then
arrested Jamali and Hagnegat and took the six girls to a victims' center,
police said.
The girls told investigators that they traveled from Wigan to London on the
understanding they would earn money by dancing for a group of rich men. It was
only once they arrived in London that they were told they may be asked to have
sex with the men.
Gholampour was arrested when police then searched Hagnegat's home, and the
43-year-old owner of the apartment where the girls stayed the night before the
London meeting was also arrested, police said. She could not be named for legal
reasons, they said.
"This case highlights the fact that trafficking is not just a crime that
involves foreign nationals being brought in the U.K. It is something that
happens within the U.K. as well," said Martin, of the Metropolitan Police. "We
hope that this result will encourage any other potential victims to come
forward and speak with police who may have felt that they couldn't do so
before."
Hagnegat, Jamali, and Gholampour pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic
persons within the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation. Hagnegat and Jamali
also pleaded guilty to control of prostitution for gain, police said.
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