Moscow actress arrested in African sex slave sting
A 21-year-old Moscow resident was detained on Thursday in western Moscow after she attempted to sell four African women into sexual slavery. Aiguyn Azizova accepted nearly $2,000 from an undercover police officer posing as a pimp, in exchange for the women, who came from Nigeria and Ghana.
Azizova is a former reality show contestant, and works as an actress in a TV show focused on sex, Lifenews web site reports.
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Moscow police said they arranged a sting operation after receiving a tip-off that someone was trying to sell four women from Africa.
According to new information, the woman was coerced into the crime by her boyfriend, 30-year-old Shamsu Muhammad, a native of Ghana, who had intentions of persuing prostitution and human trafficking as a way to make money.
Muhammad has been arrested, while Azizova has been released pending the investigation, because she is pregnant.
All of the four African women have been placed in a temporary detention facility for foreign nationals, pending deportation. Two of the Nigerian women had false documents, and have been living in Russia for over two years; another woman had been expelled from a Moscow college a while ago.
The police complaint says that Azizova approached the women, and offered to find them high paying jobs in Moscow. They were convinced they would be working as housekeepers or cleaning ladies.
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