{"id":6226,"date":"2022-07-12T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/sees-more-similarities-between-swedish-and-norwegian-prostitution-networks-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:38:13","slug":"sees-more-similarities-between-swedish-and-norwegian-prostitution-networks-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/sees-more-similarities-between-swedish-and-norwegian-prostitution-networks-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Sees more similarities between Swedish and Norwegian prostitution networks – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The police’s human trafficking group in Oslo believes it has revealed a Norwegian-Ukrainian pimp network that is said to have transported almost 200 women into the country to sell sex. As many as 200 women were transported into Norway. About half of them are said to have lived and worked in a secret brothel in central Oslo. During the same period as the police investigated the network in Norway, another network was discovered in Sweden. This man from Moldova has been central in the investigation by the Swedish police of a large prostitution network called “Operation Odessa”. Photo: Police – I’m not surprised. We have seen much of the same scheme in Sweden as well, says Simon H\u00e4ggstr\u00f8m to news. He is a police inspector at the Stockholm police, and specializes in prostitution and human trafficking. It was Swedish police who put Norwegian police on the trail of the network in the winter of 2021. In connection with a large investigation of pimping in Stockholm, the Swedish police discovered that many women were transported directly through the country and to the border areas with Norway. Many similarities H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m spied on the network in the Swedish investigation called “Operation Odessa”. There are many similarities to what he has read about the Norwegian investigation. Among other things, the women in both cases were allowed to keep half of their earnings themselves, while the rest went back to the network. All contact with customers also went through so-called operators in other countries. – As in Norway, the network in Stockholm also used operators who put customers in contact with the women, says H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m. Simon H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m is a police inspector in the Stockholm police, specializing in prostitution and human trafficking. Photo: Ola Axman \/ Ola Axman About 100 prostituted women lived and worked in Oslo in the same apartment building in the center. In Stockholm, several people lived in Gamla stan, a good area in the center of the city. – It was important for them to be in a safe place. The women were to experience themselves as safe. It was also easy for customers to get there, says H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m. This leads to higher turnover, according to the police inspector. – Turnover will be higher if you are central, and not out in the suburbs. Then you lose many customers. This surprises Although there are many similarities between the findings of the Oslo police and those from Stockholm, there is one thing that surprises H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m. Usually the behind-the-scenes apparatus from the home country, – What surprised me in this case, was that the network was so present in Norway, he says. One of the perpetrators of “Operation Odessa” frequently went to and from Sweden from several different countries in Eastern Europe. Photo: The police In Norway, eight people are now charged with organized pimping. Four of them are also charged with human trafficking. All four deny criminal guilt for human trafficking. A Ukrainian woman in her 50s is seen as one of the main characters in the Norwegian network. She admits criminal guilt for having promoted prostitution, but does not see herself as a pimp, says the woman’s defender Helene Elness. Read more about all the accused under the pictures, and how they relate to the accusations: 14 customers a day The Swedish investigation, “Operation Odessa”, started in February 2021. Pictures news has gained access to show how the police have kept the Swedish network under. supervision: Two women enter an apartment building in Stockholm’s old town. It is one of the places the network sold sex. Photo: Police In March this year, a man from Moldova was convicted of aggravated pimping. He has admitted that he posted and operated sex ads for a number of Eastern European women who sold sex in Stockholm. The sentence was 3 years and four months. Last week, the verdict fell against a woman in the same network. She was sentenced to 3 years and six months, also for aggravated pimping. The investigation showed that the women were in Sweden for approx. two weeks at a time, and that they worked from different apartments and addresses in the Swedish capital. The police are sitting on large amounts of surveillance material of the man from Moldova after “Operation Odessa”. Photo: The police According to the police, these properties were organized by the network. Their investigation showed that each prostitute had an average of 4.27 clients a day, but also that some women had 14 clients a day. Analyzes presented by the police in court showed that the network sold sex at least 2,000 times during the period. More connections to Norway In addition to having connections to many countries, the Swedish network had several connections to Norway. Among the cash seized, the police found an envelope with several thousand Norwegian kroner. The police in Sweden found Norwegian cash among the seizures in “Operation Odessa”. Photo: The police Several of the women the police have identified and questioned have said that they sold sex in Norway, as well as in Sweden and other countries, says H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m. The police have also found a bus ticket from Stockholm to Oslo: A bus ticket from Stockholm to Oslo shows how some of the women worked in both countries. Photo: The police The women who worked in Oslo were also sent around various places. The network is said to have had activity in Drammen and Stavanger, among other places, in addition to the north of the country. Was revealed It was in connection with the fundraising that the network revealed itself, says H\u00e4ggstr\u00f8m. – In “Operation Odessa” they were exposed because a man was sent to collect money once a month. That was the mistake they made, says the police inspector. Here, the man from Moldova collects money from a locker in Sweden. It was this activity that eventually revealed him and the Swedish network. Photo: Police It was the man from Moldova who was sent to collect money. According to the police in Sweden, he was in the country on at least 11 occasions between December 2020 and May 2021. The women had placed the money in storage boxes at, among other places, the central station in Stockholm. The man then picked up the money. A woman puts money in a locker. Photo: Police After spying on the man, the police arrested him in a hotel room in the city. In the room, police found over 300,000 in cash. Swedish police seized large amounts of cash in “Operation Odessa”. Photo: The police want to fine customers The police in Norway know that many of the sex customers paid with Vipps. They also know the identities of hundreds of them. Many have already been fined, and the police are now considering printing more. – We have fined several sex customers as part of the investigation, and I also do not want to rule out that more may be fined, says police attorney Jens Anden\u00e6s to news. Buying sex from adults is normally punished with a fine of 25,000 kroner, according to lawyers news has been in contact with.
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