Canberra, Oct 12 (ANI): Australian migration agents are reportedly helping to bring women to the country on student visas who end up working in conditions of sexual slavery or at illegal brothels.
According to Sydney Morning Herald, complaints to the authorities and information in police documents have revealed the alleged involvement of two licensed female migration agents, Yasmin Bao, of Melbourne, and Xu Xu Li, in Sydney, in Australia's illicit sex trade.
The AFP documents alleged Li arranged student visas and school applications for two women who police believe to have been trafficked by an international criminal syndicate from Asia to Australia in mid-2009.
The syndicate is alleged to have trafficked women and forced the women to work as sex slaves in Sydney and Melbourne, the paper said.
Li, however, has not been charged with any offence and denied any wrongdoing.
The 36-year-old said she never met or communicated directly with either of the alleged sex slaves and that all contact with them was made through "people in the middle".
The AFP said it was aware of allegations of migration agents involved in the sex trafficking industry, and referred questions about the licensing of these agents to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
A department spokesman, however, said it has "'no evidence to suggest any migration agents have been linked with people trafficking in the sex industry in the last five years." (ANI)
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