Apart from it´s debt crisis the Irish have recently been in the spotlight. It is estimated that in Ireland that 15% of civil marriages there are sham. It is said to be the European hub of human trafficking, a really disgusting business which should carry much higher terms in prison for convicted criminals in this inhuman trade in people. Apparently it is now becoming know as “Devil´s Ireland”. Well there was also the scandal with some of the Irish clergy molesting children wasn´t there in the past?
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It is said that most of these brides are from Latvia and the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Svetlana Biseneince says “We have repeatedly asked your Government to introduce simple measures to tackle the problem” a senior official until 2009 to her counterpart in Ireland. The response to date has been minimal.
.Latvia has a 22% unemployment rate with many families surviving on the equivalent of three hundred euros. Latvia´s journalist Aleksandra Jolkina is investigating the trafficking of the Latvian women to Ireland. Her research reveals that rape and sexual exploitation and inappropriate marriages are the norm and that many of the victims have escaped from their marriage mentors, the Garda´s National Immigration Bureau have a case book full of distressing stories.
.Unlike online dating agencies, the women are tricked into going to Ireland with the promise of a job and when they arrive they are coerced into marriage. In 2006 when it was first brought to light girls were offered ten thousand euros to participate in a sham marriage but this has now dropping apparently to two thousand. In Spain a few years ago the fee was six thousand and I have been offered this sum of money by someone in Morroco and subsequently from Thailand. I refused as I said that I could only marry for love, not money, but I suppose that there are people that are tempted
.In Dublin it is said that fake companies had been set up to provide Latvian women with work records, obviously fake, in order that they can marry a non EU National. In their ignorance that are not aware of how difficult it will be to obtain a divorce and we are sure that they are not told of the costs involved if they could get one.
.According to Irish records of the 266 marriage applications made by Pakistanis 115 of these were applications to marry Latvian women. From our statistics we are well aware of the interest in women from the Ukraine by Turkish, Iranian and Pakistani men. I can quite understand that a lady from Latvia or Eastern Europe should be very careful about who she marries and indeed I would go as far as to say forget online dating agencies well alone in the light of several years experience in investigating it.
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useful links which will hopefully help Aleksandra Jolkina in her fight agains human trafficking
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Bristol News - Search for: aleksandra jolkina
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Bristol News, Searching for: aleksandra jolkina, Latvia calls on Ireland to tackle sham marriages.
www.bristolwired.co.uk/search.php/aleksandra+jolkina - En cachéManchester News - Search for: aleksandra jolkina
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Manchester News, Searching for: aleksandra jolkina, Latvia calls on Ireland to tackle sham marriages.
www.manchesterwired.co.uk/search.php/aleksandra+jolkina - En cachéGlasgow News - Search for: aleksandra jolkina
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Glasgow News, Searching for: aleksandra jolkina, Latvia calls on Ireland to tackle sham marriages.
www.glasgowwired.co.uk/search.php/aleksandra+jolkina - En cachéInspiration - European Fund for Investigative Journalism
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11 Oct 2010 ... At the same time Latvian journalist Aleksandra Jolkina is finalising a book about the matter. The marriage scam according to Jolkina is ...
www.journalismfund.eu/index.php?page=10&detail=143 - En cachéIrlanda, paraíso de los matrimonios de conveniencia « Miradas de ...
29 Nov 2010 ... La periodista letona Aleksandra Jolkina se adentró en una de estas mafías ... Aleksandra Jolkina también intenta aportar su grano de arena ...
miradasdeinternacional.wordpress.com/.../irlanda-paraiso-de-los-matrimonios-de-conveniencia/ - En caché BBC World Service - World Agenda - Uncovering the Baltic brides scam
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19 Nov 2010 ... Uncovering the Baltic brides scam. Latvian reporter Aleksandra Jolkina...
www.bbc.co.uk/.../101119_worldagenda_baltic_brides.shtml - En caché shows BBC correspondent Damien McGuinness her fake online profilesHome
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In her investigation, Aleksandra Jolkina sets up fake internet profiles of ... Aleksandra Jolkina's book in Latvian will be published in December 2010 by ...
www.shammariages.lv/ - En caché
5 January 2011 - Pakistanis in the news again
