Chapter 1745 Can you run away like this?

The entrance to the Salekhard Internal Affairs Department is now on high alert.

A group of Ministry of Internal Affairs police were standing at the door in full gear, as if waiting for something.

Not long after, deafening sirens were heard, and a row of police cars arrived at the parking lot in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The police cars here are basically Lada RIVA - yes, it is the Lada taxi model that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Daxia city thirty years ago. However, this car has basically disappeared in Daxia, but it can still be seen everywhere here. It is the standard police car in Salekhard.

Of course, there are also several BMWs and new Lada VESTAs here, which are all cars for leaders.

These police cars were escorting a large vehicle - of course, it was Xiao Peng's GAZ-3937.

After the convoy stopped, several ambulances had been waiting there for a long time. They took the two people who were shot, the frostbitten woman, and the girls in Xiao Peng's car to the hospital.

Several police cars followed the ambulance to the hospital, after all, there was a criminal in the ambulance.

Several police leaders had been waiting here for a long time. Kasin handed the handbag found in the car to them, and then he was warmly received by the Salekhard police.

After all, Xiao Peng and his team helped the Salekhard police solve a major case!

The three men and one woman in the car (including the deceased) belonged to a transnational criminal group whose main crimes were human trafficking and drug trafficking.

That big sports bag was filled with high-concentration drugs, and those girls in the car were the girls they were trafficking.

In the past few years, Russia has had serious problems with both drugs and human trafficking, and these have been the main targets of Russia's crackdown in recent years.

However, these crimes are indeed difficult to control: because the criminals who are still left are transnational criminals, they have rich experience in resisting arrest, and when something happens they run away and are difficult to arrest.

Now, with Russia's full-scale crackdown, Russian criminals have shown a new development trend: originally their crimes were concentrated in big cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, and Yekaterinburg. Now, after being severely cracked down, Siberia east of the Ural Mountains and the Far East, which are remote and mountainous, have become their main targets of activities.

And let's be honest, it's easier to commit crimes there, especially human trafficking.

To put it nicely, the people over there are more "naive", but to put it bluntly, they are "ignorant".

Siberia and the Far East are generally considered "poor." Just as people in Daxia want to live in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, Russians also want to live in big cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg. Sasa, for example, wants to live in Moscow. If possible, going abroad would be even better.

This provides an opening for transnational human trafficking rings: they often use the guise of "modeling agencies," "acting companies," and "labor export companies" to deceive Russian girls into trafficking. Previously, Russia ignored this issue, but now, with its increased attention, it has revealed the severity of the problem: in 2016 alone, Russia uncovered 188 human trafficking channels.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Ultimately, poverty is the original sin. Many Russian girls east of the Ural Mountains naively believe this is their chance to change their lives. Every year, across the entire Russian region east of the Ural Mountains, in cities, towns, and even villages, there are at least thousands of so-called "talent shows" and "modeling competitions" held by so-called entertainment and modeling companies.

In fact, many of these competitions are about selecting beautiful girls with good conditions and selling them to make money.

The people Xiao Peng and his team discovered were those who were planning to send the deceived girls abroad.

Why are those girls unconscious? They injected them with drugs!

Why inject those girls with drugs? It's easier to control them that way!

And they were just one link in this human trafficking ring! They'd recruited a dozen girls under the pretext of 'selecting potential models,' and their mission was to transport them to the outskirts of Salekhard, where another link in the chain would take over. Someone there would round up the girls, bringing them to Vorkuta, near the Arctic Kara Sea, and from there, they'd board ships and be smuggled out of Russia.

According to the confessions of several people captured by Xiao Peng, their destination was Britain.

The UK is currently the largest sex slave market in Europe, and second only to the US worldwide. Every year, over 40,000 women from around the world are trafficked to the UK for forced sexual activity.

Yes, it is the Britain that is famous for its 'gentlemen'.

Although the UK introduced the first anti-slavery bill since its founding two years ago, the "Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act", it is of no use. Instead of reducing, the human trafficking situation there has become more serious - because the introduction of this bill has increased the price of sex slaves, which means more money for those criminal groups!

What made Xiao Peng angry was that the oldest girl in the car they found was only sixteen years old, and the youngest was only thirteen! According to the confession, this was because they could sell them for a higher price. If shipped to the UK, each one could fetch two thousand pounds!

Of course, the people caught by Xiao Peng did not get so much money. They could only get about 20,000 rubles, or 200 pounds, for each girl.

This is a lot, buying a baby here only costs 5,000 rubles.

When Xiao Peng learned about this, he was so angry that his teeth almost broke - what a beast! If he had known this would happen, he should have just left them in the snow to die!

While Russia still has the death penalty, it is rarely imposed. This was one of the conditions for Russia's accession to the Council of Europe. Currently, Russia only imposes the death penalty for five crimes: "intentional homicide with aggravated circumstances," "offense against the life of a state or public figure," "offense against the life of a judge or pre-trial investigator," "offense against the life of a member of a law enforcement agency," and "genocide." The death penalty has been abolished for women.

In other words, no matter whether they were drug traffickers, human traffickers, or shooting attackers, the three people captured by Xiao Peng can be said to be safe - the most severe sentence they can receive is imprisonment.

This is completely inconsistent with the Daxia people's way of thinking of "blood for blood, tooth for tooth" and "evil will be punished"! In Xiao Peng's eyes, scumbags deserve to die! This result made Xiao Peng very unhappy!

And this is not what makes Xiao Peng most unhappy.

A few days later, the chief of the local police told him that all the accomplices of the criminal group in Salekhard had escaped and took away a group of Russian girls who had been trafficked by them!

Xiao Peng was completely upset at that moment: "What else can you do? You haven't even caught the person yet?"

If there weren’t any traitors in the police station, my surname wouldn’t be Xiao!