How do criminal groups control women?
Narrator: Sergei advised us to control recruits by confiscating passports. Sergei: I think it is important that you should take their passports. I’m talking about taking their passports because I have no idea what’s going on in their heads. Without doing that, I can give no guarantees. They can take the money and goodbye. Tatiana: They took our passports even though the contract said that everybody would keep their passports. They took them saying they needed to register us because we’d be living there for a long time. They demanded $15,000 for our passport if we wanted to get it back. Narrator: Vika told us that her pimp will keep her passport until she has worked long enough to repay her debt to the criminal group that brought her into the country. Undercover investigator: If you ask the pimp for your passport, can you have it back? Vika: He won’t give me my passport. He’ll say that I have to give him the money first. I have to work off the contract first. Narrator: Why don’t the wom
