PROSTITUTION

Russian arrested in connection with prostitution in his home country

The Nation

Photo : Konstantin Avdoshkin

Immigration police have arrested a 29-year-old Russian for his alleged involvement in prostitution in Russia.

PATTAYA: -- The arrest of Konstantin Avdoshkin on November 6 was made after Thai police received a tip-off from the Russian consulate general in Thailand, said Immigration Police commissioner Pol Lt Gen Panu Kerdlarbpon Friday.

The Russians claimed that the suspect had cooperated with a Russian woman in procuring women for brothels in his country. He was alleged to have operated between 2005 and 2009 in the city of Kazan.

Panu quoted the Russian side as saying that the suspect demanded a large amount of money from any women who wanted to stop working as a prostitute. If a woman refused to pay, she would be subjected to brutal assaults including beatings and electric shocks.

Avdoshkin escaped to Thailand after Russian police arrested a Russian woman who was his alleged accomplice and issued an arrest warrant against him.

He was arrested while shopping in the Central Plaza Department Store in Bang Lamung district, Chon Buri. He denied the allegation, saying Russian police told lies and had demanded about Bt200,000 from him. He refused to pay and escaped to Thailand.

He has been living in Pattaya for three and a half years and has a Thai wife and a child.

He worked as a tour guide for Russian tours.

-- The Nation 2012-11-16

Thai police arrest Russian procuring women into flesh trade

By English News

BANGKOK, Nov 16 - Immigration police in Thailand’s eastern province of Chonburi arrested a Russian man luring women into prostitution in Russia.

Pol Lt-Gen Panu Kerdlappol, immigration bureau chief told a news conference that the police nabbed Konspantin Avdoshkin, 29, a Russian national with an arrest warrant issued by the authorities in his homeland.

He was arrested at Central Plaza shopping mall in the Banglamung district.

The Thai police were contacted by the Russian consulate to arrest the culprit, who lured women into sex trade in Russia between Jan 2005 and April 2009.

If women recruited in this way wish to stop working in prostitution, they must pay 50,000 rubles each to the gang. If they refuse to pay the money, she will be punished by electric shock. The victims included young women under age 18, police said.

Mr Avdoshkin will be repatriated for prosecution in his own country. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-11-16