Pornographic videos and photos of victims of human trafficking, made in a luxury hotel in Porto Montenegro, but also in other locations on the Montenegrin coast, were also distributed on the Telegram channel, which is suspected to have been made by a Ukrainian citizen. Oleksiy Blahoslavov (34), "Vijesti" learns.
That Ukrainian was arrested two days ago in the continuation of the operation that cut the chain of human trafficking.
He was handcuffed by the Tivat policemen, who also arrested his compatriot Oleksandr Liszczynski (41) and Russians Bogdan Petrov (24)
All three are suspected of being part of a criminal team responsible for human trafficking, and they are accused of being on the order of a previously arrested Ukrainian with an American passport. Vitaly Grecin (43) abused a twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian woman for the production of explicit pornographic content.
They are accused of misleading the girl, then abusing her trust and taking advantage of her difficult position...
According to the investigators' suspicions, she and the other girls and men found during the raid in a luxury hotel in Tivat were filmed by Liščinski.
Blahoslavov and Petrov allegedly had the task of bringing the girls from the airport to the hotel in Tivat where they were found, checking their plane tickets...
"Petrov is suspected of having driven the girls from the airport to the place of residence specified by Grecin at Grecin's request and went to procure the things they specified," claims a source involved in the investigation.
The same interlocutor explained that the task of the thirty-four-year-old was also to check plane tickets and transport girls, but also to facilitate the distribution of pornographic content.
Allegedly, it was he who created the Telegram channel where photos of girls were shared.
Liščinski was questioned at the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica on Friday evening, and prosecutors Blahoslavov and Petrov were taken into custody yesterday morning.
Previously, in front of police inspectors, they partially confirmed the allegations of the criminal complaint, that is, their responsibilities in that illegal business.
The police administration officially announced yesterday that the three were arrested in Tivat, in the continuation of activities to suppress and detect human trafficking, and that they are suspected of having committed the criminal offense of human trafficking in co-perpetration with Grečin, a citizen of the United States of America, who was previously deprived of his liberty .
Start of action
They recalled that on October 31, by searching seven rooms of a hotel in Tivat, they found 18 foreign citizens of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Israel and 10 foreign citizens - the United States of America, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Greece.
That morning, the police arrested Grećin, and the girls found in the hotel were moved to safe locations throughout the country.
The inspectors searched the hotel due to the suspicion that there was also a XNUMX-year-old citizen of Ukraine, a victim of human trafficking, who, under duress, paid the costs of accommodation and plane tickets in such a way that they used her to produce porn videos.
The police suspect that Grećin, on several occasions during 2023, using his poor financial condition, separation from his family, the fact that he had previously been physically abused by his emotional partner, offered the twenty-one-year-old woman financial help, inviting her to travel to Montenegro for socializing.
"He paid for her plane tickets for flights to Montenegro and accommodation facilities, and she was photographed naked by a person unknown to her."
Also, that person unknown to her filmed the injured party for the purpose of creating a video of pornographic content, with the promise that VG gave to the injured party that the said video material would be exclusively for his private use, while the injured party did all this because she was conditioned to pay the travel and accommodation expenses pay that way," the police announced after the arrest of Grečin.
XNUMX-year-old victim of human trafficking forced to pay for plane tickets and accommodation by acting in pornographic videos
Then they explained that Tivat police officers, acting on the orders of the investigating judge of the Basic Court in Kotor, searched seven hotel rooms in Porto Montenegro.
"18 foreign citizens of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Israel, as well as 10 foreign citizens of the United States of America, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Greece, were found in the mentioned premises", explained the security institution.
Found victims, cameras, money...
By searching those rooms, the inspectors found and seized 16.735 euros, 14.394 US dollars, 73.323 Ukrainian hryvnias, 5.550 Russian rubles, 2.330 Polish zlotys, 40 British pounds and 40 Turkish liras.
"In addition, 36 mobile phones, eight laptops, two tablet computers, three cameras, two video cameras, as well as a large number of SIM cards and USB memory sticks were found. After the search, the aforementioned foreign nationals entered the official premises of the Tivat Security Department. "After criminal processing and consultations with the prosecutor in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor and the prosecutor in the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, the American citizen VG (43) was deprived of his liberty on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of human trafficking against a 21-year-old person," they announced. from UP. Yesterday they explained that during the further criminal investigation Blahoslavov, Liščinski and Petrov were identified as persons who participated in the commission of the crime.
"It is suspected that they created pornographic content in the period from October 26 to 31, by misleading and abusing the trust of the injured girl. It is suspected that OB, BP and OL, at the request of VG, checked the plane tickets for the injured girl and other girls, were in charge of their transportation from the airport to their place of residence, the procurement of necessary things, as well as the creation of pornographic content - photography and recording", explained the police administration.
Bonus video:
