Kenyan police disintegrate people trafficking in Russia to fight in Ukraine

Police said that more than 20 people were rescued in Kenya from a suspected human smuggling episode that attracted them with work offers in Russia, but they were aiming to send them to fight in Ukraine.

This is followed by a raid led by the intelligence on an apartment on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where the officers seized employment materials, travel documents, and work offer messages.

One of the suspects was arrested, accused of coordinating victims’ travel to Russia in September and October.

He was transferred to the court, which allowed him to detention for 10 days, while the police complete their investigations.

There were increasing concerns about the high number of Kenyans trafficking abroad under wrong work promises.

A young Kenyan athlete was arrested in Ukraine, saying that he was deceived to join the Russian army.

The authorities said that the arrest of Wednesday followed a multi -agent coordinated security operation targeting the criminal network, which was blackmailing huge sums of Kenyan, desperate work.

A total of 22 kenny was found in an apartment in the ATHI River, “awaiting treatment for Russia.”

The police said that the “mysterious trafficking union” was attracting the Kenyans with job offers in Moscow, only to send it to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine.

The investigators said that the victims revealed that they had signed contracts with an employment agency abroad, whose name was not revealed, and they are committed to paying up to $ 18,000 (13,000 pounds) for visas, travel, residence and other logistics services.

Some victims also indicated that they have already paid $ 1500 deposits.

Once used, the police said that many of the return to the homeland were shocked or shocked or in some cases, never returned it.

Two Kenyans were recently reported, one of whom was currently accepted to Al -Madinah Hospital.

A senior foreign ministry official said that the Kenyan government is following reports of many Kenyan citizens who were allegedly smuggled to Russia and are now being held as a war prisoner in Ukraine.

Petro Yatnko, a spokeswoman for Ukraine in the Car of Carpets, told the BBC that the Somalis citizens, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cuba and Sri Lanka, among others, are currently being held in the Akranian war prisoners.

However, in his talk about other prisoners of war, he added that “most African countries show little attention to the return of these citizens and do not want to restore them.”