Prostitute in helsinki

Police arrested some of the suspected leaders of the ring in September, but the stream of women being brought into Finland continued. So far eight people have been detained, while police are still looking for a ninth gang member. Some suspects have been released but forbidden from leaving the country. The ring's operations in Finland were led by three women. One of them was detained by Finnish police in Spain. Police say that the ring brought women into all the Nordic countries as well as Switzerland and Austria.

Russian-speaking women who engage in commercial sex need to constantly monitor their own movements and behaviour to avoid being identified as someone who engages in commercial sex. Identification may lead to problems in crossing the national border, inability to find housing, encounters with the police, and anxieties about their personal information being shared with social services, landlords or future employers. Russian-speaking women who engage in commercial sex respond to this by being very mobile. This, in turn, increases their earnings, but disrupts their connection to their countries of origin and prevents them from forming strong bonds of belonging in Finland. According to the study, commercial sex presents a problem for the Finnish national project, as it does not harmonize with the claimed national values of gender and social equality. This creates a particular environment for migrants who engage in commercial sex, as they become perceived as the, de facto, representatives of commercial sex. In this environment, Russian-speaking women engaged in commercial sex oscillate between visibility and invisibility.

Hundreds of people sell sex every single day in Finland. The selling and buying of sex is legal, unless the trade involves pimping or victims of human trafficking. Earlier this week news emerged that three Finns were suspected of pimping and money laundering in Spain. The men are suspected of having laundered up to 40 million euros gained from criminal activities since EU criminal justice agency Eurojust said the operation included human trafficking in a scheme bringing women, mostly from Nigeria, to Finland and Sweden to work as prostitutes.

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