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As a result of a two year investigation, federal agents broke a sex slave ring in Chicago. The ring
was allegedly operated by Alexander Mishulovich, a US Citizen,Vadim Gorr, a US citizen from the Ukraine,
and Serguie Tcharouchine, from Russia. The arrests were made on September 10, 1998 and they were indicted
in December 1998. Mishulovich is in federal custody, while Tcharouchine is an international fugitive.
Agents believe he could be travelling between the US and Russia.
The indictment charges Tcharouchine and his associates with luring young women from the Eastern European
country of Latvia to Chicago. The women were promised jobs as dancers for an annual salary of $60,000.
The indictment alleges the women were not told they would become nude dancers. Also, it alleges the
women were locked in an apartment, had no access to a phone and were beatened. The women were forced
to dance at several Chicago night clubs nude and all their profits went to Tcharouchine and Mishulovich.
The victims, who became sex slaves, are free from their captors and fear for their lives.
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