Four people have been convicted of sex trafficking offences at the High Court in Glasgow.
Two men, Jagpal Singh (52), Vlassis Ntaoulias (33) and two women Boonsong Wannas (62) and Donglin Zhang (48) were convicted at the High Court in Glasgow of human trafficking and brothel keeping offences.
All four accused have been remanded in custody and will appear for sentencing next month.
Their convictions mark the end of an operation by Greater Glasgow Human Trafficking Unit in partnership with CFI Home Office to detect offenders involved in Human Trafficking and Exploitation, which started in September 2019.
On Thursday, February 13, a large scale multi-agency operation was carried out and a number of search warrants were executed.
READ MORE: Man appears in court accused of 1976 murder of Renee MacRae and son Andrew
Detective Superintendent Donna Duffy, in charge of Glasgow’s Human Trafficking Unit said: “Human trafficking is a despicable crime that has an unmeasurable long term impact on its victims.
“We are committed to working with our partners to conduct thorough investigations, to identify those responsible and to protect their vulnerable victims from harm and these convictions demonstrate that.
“We will continue in our efforts to tackle Human trafficking within the city and information from local people within our communities is key to helping us to identify those involved.
"As such I ask that anyone with any information or who has concerns about the welfare of someone they suspect has been trafficked to contact us on 101.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel