Int'l Adoptions

On Jan 29, 8:54 pm, "spd" wrote:
The services of the agency that was virtually selling children to the
USA cost up to $20,000

Russian and US special services have conducted a special operation in
Moscow to arrest members of an international criminal group that was
dealing with the trafficking of children. The operation was completed
successfully. "The group was conducting illegal activities for several
years under the guise of various public services," Deputy Prosecutor
General of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky said Tuesday.

According to the official, several Russian and American citizens set
up a firm which they named as Yunona. The company was registered in
California. The firm was collecting confidential information about
children in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Guatemala and
several other countries. The criminals were selling the collected
information to adoption agencies. "It has been proved as a result of
investigation that the organization was involved in the adoption of
Aleksei Geiko who subsequently died in the USA in 2005," Sergei
Fridinsky told reporters.

The illegal company had a network of agents in various countries of
the world. The agents were digging for information in children's homes
and other social institutions with the help of bribes. The services of
the child-trafficking agency cost from $10,000 to $20,000 for each
client. Many of those US-based families that paid the agency for the
services have never been able to adopt children from foreign
countries.

The criminal activities of the company were ceased owing to the
information exchange between Russian and US law-enforcement agencies.
Yunona's California-based office was closed on January 6. Police
officers raided other branch offices of the company in Russia's
Krasnodar region several days later. A criminal case has been filed in
connection with the inspections. The investigation is underway.

The founder and the owner of the human trafficking agency, Ivan
Jerdev, and two of his employees, Nick Sims and Alex Nikolenko, were
arrested in the beginning of 2006 in the USA. The criminals have
received considerable amounts of money from child-loving, albeit
childless US families. The clients' expectations to adopt a child were
not meant to come true, though.

Up to three million children live without parental care in present-day
Russia. The majority of them are being kept in specialized
institutions. As a rule, Russian families do not tend to adopt
somebody else's children even if they cannot have the one of their
own.

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Kane wrote
When will we start arresting the principals in domestic adoption.

It won't be long now.

Greegor wrote:
On Jan 29, 8:54 pm, "spd" wrote:
The services of the agency that was virtually selling children to the
USA cost up to $20,000

Russian and US special services have conducted a special operation in
Moscow to arrest members of an international criminal group that was
dealing with the trafficking of children. The operation was completed
successfully. "The group was conducting illegal activities for several
years under the guise of various public services," Deputy Prosecutor
General of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky said Tuesday.

According to the official, several Russian and American citizens set
up a firm which they named as Yunona. The company was registered in
California. The firm was collecting confidential information about
children in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Guatemala and
several other countries. The criminals were selling the collected
information to adoption agencies. "It has been proved as a result of
investigation that the organization was involved in the adoption of
Aleksei Geiko who subsequently died in the USA in 2005," Sergei
Fridinsky told reporters.

The illegal company had a network of agents in various countries of
the world. The agents were digging for information in children's homes
and other social institutions with the help of bribes. The services of
the child-trafficking agency cost from $10,000 to $20,000 for each
client. Many of those US-based families that paid the agency for the
services have never been able to adopt children from foreign
countries.

The criminal activities of the company were ceased owing to the
information exchange between Russian and US law-enforcement agencies.
Yunona's California-based office was closed on January 6. Police
officers raided other branch offices of the company in Russia's
Krasnodar region several days later. A criminal case has been filed in
connection with the inspections. The investigation is underway.

The founder and the owner of the human trafficking agency, Ivan
Jerdev, and two of his employees, Nick Sims and Alex Nikolenko, were
arrested in the beginning of 2006 in the USA. The criminals have
received considerable amounts of money from child-loving, albeit
childless US families. The clients' expectations to adopt a child were
not meant to come true, though.

Up to three million children live without parental care in present-day
Russia. The majority of them are being kept in specialized
institutions. As a rule, Russian families do not tend to adopt
somebody else's children even if they cannot have the one of their
own.

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Kane wrote
When will we start arresting the principals in domestic adoption.

It won't be long now.

Be sure you start posting them here, Greg.