5 hours ago38 Kosovo massage bars where prostitution was exercised
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Kosovo police, namely, the Directorate for Trafficking in Human Being Investigation, based on duties and legal authorisations among its main objectives, also have the prevention and investigation of human trafficking criminal acts, access to prostitution, offering prostitution premises and other criminal acts that connect with them. a communique for [...]
A media communique becomes known that in the function of preventing and combating these illegal activities during February 2018, Kosovo Police with its relevant units and with assistance and co-operation of other institutional acts as well: ATK inspectors, MTI, Labour Inspectors and Municipal Inspectors, have drafted and implemented the particular operational plan “Masage”, carried out in three (3) regions; Pristina, Prizren and Peja.
Police say the operational plan was aimed at combating information and identifying potential trafficking victims and during its implementation 63 local/pelling massages have been inspected and resulted in the following found:
Some of these local/massages have not been registered at all in ATK as businesses, have not owned any documentation,
“Most of them (locals) have not owned fiscal cases. There have been no consent from municipalities for economic activity exercise, no employees declared, no employment contracts for employees who had hired them, employees in most locals have been unqualified, no reporting day-to-month circulation, no Sanitarian consent, no Sanitarian litres, under 18-year-old female employees, etc. PK, Time.net.
Following the necessary procedures in co-ordination with the competent are the following actions:
· Due to local irregularities of thirty-eight (38) exercising massage activities have been temporarily closed by the inspectors of the respective Inspectorate,
· The ATK inspectors, MTI, Labour and Municipal Inspectors have pronounced fines for the irregularities encountered.
· All workers encountered at these massage centers have been legitimized, and everyone has been offered an opportunity to declare themselves in some form of Trafficking Victims.
· They have been confronted by working and staying in the RKS, with no permission to stay and work permit five ( 5) women, citizens of Albania (all submitted to the Directorate for Migration and Foreign Affairs).
Kosovo police say they remain committed to co-operation with all relevant institutions that are responsible for overseeing the activity of these businesses, which are recently increasingly, also pledge to the more professional treatment of all those cases allegedly held against the positive laws of the Republic of Kosovo.
