VietNamNet Bridge - The Voice of Russia cited the website of Moscow home affairs agency on August 22, as saying that six people who are related to the use of slave labor from Vietnam have been prosecuted.

Tents for illegal foreign labors in Golyanovo were removed on August 20.  

These people were prosecuted under Article 210 (organizing criminal gangs), Article 322.1 (illegal immigrants) and Article 127.2 (using slave labor) of the Russian Criminal Code. All of the defendants are in custody.

The names of defendants are not mentioned. It was previously only announced that they were Iraqi, Syrian, Vietnamese and Azerbaijan. Of these, four people have Russian citizenship.

Records of the criminal case of using large numbers of Vietnamese workers who were illegal immigrants in Moscow were established on August 6.

Also at this time in Moscow, the authorities deployed a large-scale raid with hundreds of Vietnamese working in illegal garment factories to be seized. The detainees were taken to tents in Golyanovo. On August 20, the tents were removed. The remaining 234 were transferred to the detention center of foreigners in Severnyi village.

Meanwhile, the RIA Novosti news agency on August 20 quoted the spokesman of Moscow police that an armed robber threatened a bus carrying Vietnamese people and robbed the passengers. The source said the victims were Vietnamese citizens who were moving from the market of Sadovod to the Moscow Trade Center.

A witness said the robber threatened the driver to force him to open the car door, after that he fired three times but no one was injured. Then he grabbed the passenger's bags and fled in another car. The Russian investigators are tracing the culprit.

PV