done it very, very easily. just snap my fingers and the dog would have taken care of it right then. we were getting ready to flip a coin where they think the goose's fate was. i don't think the governor was going to call at that point. fall 2007, police forces across the united koing dom undertake the largest human trafficking investigation ever. their target brothels and those who supply them with women from around the world who are forced into sexual slavery. over the next few years british police will build evidence against the human traffickers.

>> there's also diamonds and rings and gold. >> the woman who brought me from thailand said my price was $48,000. they be bust up an international human trafficking network from the bottom right to the master minds at the very top. >> fantastic. that's what we're looking for. >> there was no doubt that the people that we're dealing with here are very shrewd and very competent business people. >> it's code name, operation contamiter two was amazing to see. it shows a country making a decision to attack human trafficking at a system's level. >> police!

hello. i'm natalie morales. the u.s. state department estimates worldwide over 12 people people are enslaved, held against their will and forced to work for little or no pay, often in the sex industry. over the last few years the msnbc undercover series sex slaves in america has exposed human trafficking and the efforts to combat it here in the united states. in this program we will go behind the scenes with british police and dktds. watch as they follow every lead, use every investigative cool to find and then convict the bad guys and yes, bad girls involved in the sordid trade that is human trafficking. any october 2007 the british government launched its crackdown involving dozens of local police forces. it was a closely coordinated effort to tackle the growing

industry in women illegally brought into the uk for sex the operation begins with smart police work. one of the lead invest gay thors is detective andy lee. >> this is an address we've got an interest in. it's one of a number. this is a lady from what we have seen appears to be in control of events surrounding the address. she is obviously waiting on something. if we move a little bit of footage, she very quickly comes back into my frame. she's carrying two carrier bags, and she's got a girl behind her who is quite clearly younger than her. she's carrying a suitcase and it's exactly what i would expect when a person is being brought to the premises for the first

time. i would be quite comfortable in saying at this moment that that lady is probably within a trafficking chain. she is being moved from one place to another for the sole purpose of sex. >> with strong suspicions of sex trafficking, detective lee must move quickly and gather further intelligence before taking the case to his boss. >> it's my understanding this gentleman here is the guy that's currently -- >> lee is hopeful the local real estate agents may have information about who is operating the brothel. >> it appears to be an oriental chap. he's a male. we're quite happy with that. have you met him at all? >> i haven't, no. not personally. >> any correspondence is over the telephone? >> yeah. >> or in written form? >> yeah. >> okay.

is he paying by cash or is it standing order? >> he paid cash six months up front. >> okay. how much would that have been? >> it was 4,825 pounds. >> okay. that's in cash? >> yes. >> okay. is that usual? >> it's not the norm. >> it's not the norm. okay. so this suggestion is that he's got a bit of money. >> yeah. a lot of money. >> the records show that the apartment is being rented to a man named wang. armed with wang's name, detective lee checks him out in the national database. >> the man who is currently renting the address that we have got an interest in, we know from our previous intelligence systems has rented a brothel that was in force during the summer last year. >> we wouldn't want to sort of wait too long on building up a picture if we felt we were at the stage where we could go,

because ultimately our number one priority is to secure the safety of women that might be working in these type of premises. >> the brothel identified by detective lee is one of many that police have placed under close surveillance. in its first major action, operation pentameter two will soon launch a raid against this brothel and several others in the english town of cheltenham. >> decided what we're going to do, four addresses within cheltenham and we're going to do four addresses outside and do them all simultaneously. it would have been a lot easier if we decided that we were just going to pick them off doing one address, then the second address, but then you risk the organization getting to know that the police are doing enforcement activity. everything shuts down. >> coming up -- the investigation swings into high gear. >> let's go. we're ready to go now. okay? we'll call for a strike, then. and it's so rich and creamy... is it really 100 calories? yes, ma'am. 100 calories. yea...i'm gonna need some proof. we get that a lot... let me put you on webcan... see? hearty vegetables... lean roasted chicken... and a creamy broth that tastes indulgent -- but isn't... so feel free to enjoy a bowl anytime.

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as operation pentameter two prepares for a big sweep of local brothels, police are learning from trafficked victims already rescued about just how prevalent human trafficking is

in the uk. >> i never heard bad things about england, you know. you work waitress or you work babysit, you make good money. >> i hear only the promise of some form of paid work and that's not done for free. that's done as a debt to the person, the organization bringing them over. arrive here, then all of a sudden at some stage it's explained hang on, there isn't actually a job, you still owe us 5,000, 10,000 pounds or whatever it is, you owe us. >> in the town of bedfordshire, 60 miles north of london, officers jason duning and paul cook, working in concert with operation pentameter two are pursuing a new lead. a woman from astonia has agreed to be interviewed about how she was trafficked into britain. >> she actually flagged down a police car, said i need to speak

to you. i think it's really important to find out what happened to these girls because you just don't know a lot of the time where their lives have taken them, how they've come into the country and what's gone on behind closed doors. this does smack of being a victimless crime in terms of you never see the victims, public never hear about them. half the time the police don't know this is happening. other than these girls coming forward, we've got no real means of knowing what's happened to them. so it's very important to find out how they've been trafficked and ultimately try and stop it. >> it's important that you're honest with us. about exactly what's happened to you, coming into england and what's happened since you've been here. and what happened back in

astonia. i sat in the room next door, just listening to what's actually happening. blaf >> selling human beings can be

easier and it's definitely more profitable than selling drugs. if i had a hundred pounds of drugs in this room with me right now, i would have had to procure it, i would have to hide it and then when i sold it all, i would have to replace it over and over and over again. and that is a guaranteed strong sentence against me because of our drug laws. if i have a 100 pound slave in this room and i'm good at what i do and i terrorize her enough not to come forward, you will never know and i get to resell that person over and over and over again. >> in this country, we spend as much in an entire year to fight the traffic in human beings as we do in a single day to fight the traffic in illegal drugs. that's not to diminish the relative horrors of smoking pot but it is to say which is the more monstrous crime. is it a 15-year-old being sold for rape on a street corner or is it a 15-year-old selling pot

on the street corner. >> but in britain, this lack of a major commitment to fighting human trafficking is about to take a giant leap forward. in cheltenham, police are planning a major bust. the operation will be complicated, requiring great coordination. nothing will be left to chance. >> what i want to do is take one caller away from the normal terrace address which will act as a trigger for the others. when we go for normal, we will go for all the others at the same time. we are expecting at least two girls at those premises. if those girls are clearly victims or girls that have been working as prostitutes, i want them treated with some dignity and some respect but we will afford them the protection of a victim status and treat them as victims as long as they

cooperate. okay. >> to build a strong case, the police are hoping to find victims, customers and the managers when they come through the doors. a tall order. detective lee's role is to be the eyes and ears on the ground. it's up to lee to choose the best moment to launch the operation. >> the subject premises is just down there on the right. it's the target down there. okay? >> lee will be covertly watching the properties from an undercover surveillance post. >> okay, team.

it's looking good. we've got -- have we got -- i've got channel 53? >> they're up. >> phones? please open line four in position. >> four, one and two in position. >> you ready, two? stand by, then. wait. someone's just outside. >> with the equipment and the police in position, detective lee spots a customer, or as they say in britain, a punter leaving the brothel. >> okay. as they go past each other, the chinese girl, and speak to this guy, he goes back to the house.

she goes into high street. >> right. >> if we don't move soon, the punters will disappear. >> let's go. we're ready to go now. we'll call for a strike then. we'll go all four. let's go all four teams. it's a strike, strike, strike. >> mobile, strike, strike, strike, please. >> go, go, go. >> empty. >> police! put your hands together. hands together! stay where you are. more people, please. stay where you are. no, no, no, no, no. hands, hands, hands, hands! >> open the door.

>> open the door. open the door. >> get yourself dressed. >> police officer. >> at least one punter possibly inside. >> just confirmed there's one customer and one girl on the premises. >> yep, as noted. >> okay. okay. i'll just stand there. >> the women found in the brothels are offered refuge but there's no sign of the criminals who are running the brothels. >> superintendent alex drummond gets a lead from the undercover team. they have spotted a woman they recognize from some earlier camera surveillance. >> there's an oriental female in a brown jacket that is the madam

from normal terrace, we suspect. she'll be heading back towards the top end of the road. can you go get her? middle-aged lady in a brown jacket. she's the madam. we want her arrested. >> this lead may be just the breakthrough the police need. a chance to arrest a member of the trafficking gang and take a first step up the criminal ladder. a chance to start unraveling the network. coming up -- a potential customer learns the hard way that his favorite brothel is closed. >> i won't beat around the bush, all right. the premise is used as a brothel. my interpretation of what you've been there is probably you going there. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol

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across britain, police are expanding the scope of the investigation. the aim is to climb up the criminal ladder from the brothel managers to the actual masterminds who are importing sex slaves into the country from eastern europe and asia. the raids on brothels in the town of cheltenham resulted in a roundup of trafficked women and customers, but none of the brothel's managers. but the police's luck is about to change. >> middle aged, brown jacket. she's the madam. we want her arrested. >> go down there. >> the undercover surveillance team is looking for a woman seen

leaving one of the brothels just before the raid. >> female noted. lower high street. >> they suspect she may be part of the brothel's management. >> i'll hold on to a mobile telephone and seize that as an exhibit. >> under questioning, the woman identifies another suspect, greg blackhorse. blackhorse has been under surveillance for two weeks. police think he's the owner of one of the brothels. he's arrested at his home and brought in for questioning. >> hello. you have been arrested as part of operation pentameter two. suspicion of operating a brothel

for purposes of prostitution. okay? do you understand why you've been arrested? >> could you give me the details? >> the decision is to charge. >> half a dozen other suspects are arrested at six other targeted properties. >> send the next one in. >> you have been authorized for detention here. >> but outside one of the brothels, a man seems to think that it is still open for business. >> right. you've rung the doorbell twice. you've seen an officer come from the kitchen and you turned

around and left. so that itself seems suspicious. >> no, no. not suspicious at all. i come up this alley right here. >> okay. no problem. what i want to do is take you around the corner. i'm going to get some details from you. i've got one here. i won't beat about the bush, all right. the premise is used as a brothel. >> yeah. my interpretation of what you've been there is probably you going there. if that's the case, what i would like from you, we can be discreet about this because we're all men, is a phone number where we can contact you at work and i would like a statement from you just to say that if you are using this brothel, that's fine, but how you make contact, if you phone someone up and how much you pay or what's going on. that's all we're interested in.

>> any information, including from this former client, could prove crucial to the investigation. at the time of operation pentameter two, buying sex wasn't illegal in the uk so the police couldn't make an arrest. >> if you're caught as a buyer of sex in america, you might pay a fine, you might just be let go, your car might be impounded and fined, and maybe you'll go to jail for 24 to 48 hours. it is rare for something else to happen to you. if you're a seller of sex, you're going to go to jail, more likely than not, and if it's been multiple times, you will go to jail for even longer. >> detective andy lee is at one of the brothels in cheltenham where they have yet to track down any of the management. he is looking for clues as to their whereabouts. >> keep an eye. >> we see plenty of documentation, i.d. cards, maps with addresses in london circled on them. >> we know the people that control the strings for the chain, they hide themselves, they use different names, they use aliases, they deliberately

play on the southeast asian spelling of their names. so looking from our point of view, it's very hard to pinpoint exactly who these people are. >> coming up -- a chance encounter leads to a big break. >> i'm not happy with your stories. based upon evidence i have, i'm arresting you both on suspicion of the management of a brothel. you can try snapshot from progressive before you switch your insurance. [ horn honks ] just plug snapshot into your car, and drive like you -- to see if your good driving could save you up to 30%. so try the way to save that's as unique as you are. now you can test-drive snapshot before you switch. visit progressive.com today.

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with little luck finding the people who are running the brothels, detective andy lee is about to head back to the police station. >> a woman just walked past with a gentleman, stopped here and then went along just behind this bus and was making a call. a chinese lady, according to the cameraman. >> a member of the camera crew has spotted a couple acting suspiciously, and shares it with detective lee. >> where's ashley now? >> behind the bus. walking there. those two. >> get them, get them, get them, get them. >> hello.

stop. sorry. my name's andy. i'm a police officer. are you from cheltenham? >> no. >> whereabouts you from? >> i'm from [ inaudible ]. >> oh, right. okay. what about yourself, ma'am? >> it's my husband. >> oh, is it? >> yeah. >> okay. >> detective lee recognizes the couple from surveillance footage. he thinks they could be managers of one of the brothels. >> do you know anybody along this street? >> no. >> you don't know? you don't know anybody? >> no. >> can i ask what you're doing here? >> shopping. >> have you got a car nearby? >> yes. >> you parked up there? okay. which shops have you been to today? >> this one.

>> i tell you what. step over this way. my name is andrew lee. i'm a detective constable from cheltenham police station, okay? i'm not happy with your stories. based upon evidence i have, i'm arresting you both on suspicion of the management of a brothel. you don't have to say anything. anything you do say may be giving evidence, okay? so at the moment in time you're both under arrest on suspicion of management of brothel, okay? you're being cautioned. that caution applies. you are under arrest. i explained to you. i'll carry that. i'll carry that. i'll carry it. slow down. slow down. >> i'm not -- i'm not. >> can you just take a seat in

there? sit down. >> speaking to them, they were both evasive. >> we've already got photographs. >> i suspect she's probably the brothel manager. >> we've already got photographs, possible photographs of her. >> while the police find nothing linking the woman's husband to the brothel, they detain the woman for further questioning. under british law, she can be held for 24 hours without charge. with no time to lose, the police must sift through a mountain of documents to build a strong case against her and some of the other recently arrested suspects. >> this is where we're into sort of lightning mode with exhibits now, having a quick look through. some of this will have to be done more in depth in slow term

but we're actually looking through what have we got that links this woman to the offense, what have we got that's significant to both of those addresses so we're in the best position to be able to charge those people by that time limit. >> it's all hands on deck. the police have to work through the night to build their cases and bring the maximum charges against the woman and greg blackhorse. >> what we've got to be conscious of this morning is trying to get all the interviews coordinated, start pulling some of the evidence that we've got and interviews so that we can make a decision, have we got sufficient to charge the people at the moment, do we need to release them on bail while we make further inquiries or is it that we've got insufficient

evidence to connect them with the investigation and we have to consider releasing them without charge. >> a detailed examination of greg blackhorse's bank account provides useful insight. >> yeah. looking through the financial stuff, the exhibits seized down there, it looks like he's been banking between 4.5 to 6,000 pounds a week has been coming out of those premises and getting banked. he's certainly paying all the utilities on the account. >> yeah. for normal terrace? >> for normal terrace, yeah. so he's heavily financially linked to that address. >> so that's 150k, 200k a year, then. small dwelling house in cheltenham back street potentially earning 200,000 pounds a year, tax-free. >> yeah. that's money laundering. >> okay. game on. >> large sums like this are what makes human trafficking an attractive and very profitable business for criminals. >> it's really important that we follow the money and see where the money's going to and coming from at its core. that's what human trafficking is about, making a profit. >> greg blackhorse isn't the only one who might be making a fortune from prostitution. >> where are we looking with chen?

is she just a manager that's been running that? >> during her interviews, the woman claimed she was unemployed but an examination of her bank account tells a different story. >> two days in december '05, 13,000 pound in cash at the local bank in morton. >> that's a weekly basis beginning the past year. 300, 400 pounds. >> one week, two weeks over the last 18 months or so, there's probably something in the region of over 100,000 pounds going through that account. which isn't bad for a lady that's unemployed. as we suspected, the warrants and the evidence from the

searches is giving us a much wider portfolio of crime. we're looking at money laundering, looking at the turnover that they put through these accounts. so if we just charge it now and deal with the brothel as we said yesterday, that will all disappear. we'll never see them again and they will set up somewhere else. if we're going to stop them and hit them hard, then we have to take their assets off them. >> the large sums changing hands suggest to superintendent drummond and his team that chung could be managing more than just one brothel. she might be one of the big fish they have been looking to catch. >> she is probably involved in the management chain quite clearly. >> yeah. she could be perhaps in the position whereby she's the manager of a number of outlets. >> there's a suggestion she moves around, isn't there? >> yeah. she could be a regional manager. >> regional manager. absolutely. >> meanwhile, the police decide to give her husband a get out of jail free card. >> his involvement is probably nothing until he met her. so he started out in life as a punter and caller to the address and he's fallen in love.

he's fallen in love with her and from the interview, it would seem that they went to paris. he took her to paris on a romantic weekend, and she asked him to marry her. yeah? you've got her using him there. and she's now using or their marriage is an application for full uk immigration status, which is under constant review and from indications in the interview, she's only staying there -- >> a periodic basis. >> a few nights a month. >> i'm not, i'm not. >> despite her persistent denials to the contrary, the evidence gathered by police seems to place her at the center of a network of british brothels. now one of the women rescued from a cheltenham brothel is revealing to police details of how she was trafficked. >> the information we got from one of the girls, she came to the uk on a freight ship. she paid 100,000 of her local

currency, about 6,000 in sterling, and she came across on a freight ship in a room with five others. she's ended up in london where she's got contacts through chinatown and she's told us that she's been moved around doing small odd jobs, doing cleaning, working in some restaurants and at the end of the week, when it's payday, they say well, your work hasn't been good enough, we're not going to pay you and they will move around to do some other manual work somewhere else. it's part of that chain which will then eventually force them into they've got no option but to go into a life of prostitution. that's what's going to be what you're living while you're here in the uk. >> i didn't know trafficking, at that time. i didn't wake up one day and say oh, yeah, what am i going to do today, i'm going to be prostitute. >> police! >> too often, we go in to a situation like a massage parlor and we find that women, girls, don't have their papers and we

immediately process them for deportation. that is playing into precisely the threats that the traffickers have made against those victims. they are told if you go to the police, you will be processed for deportation and when you get back to your home countries, we will take our due. >> i'm not for sale. i'm not for sale. it's not just me. there's plenty like me that have been used. i was scared to say it. i was very, very scared. hundred and hundred and hundred have been abused. nobody helped them. nobody helped them. >> coming up -- the young woman trafficked out of thailand agrees not only to talk, but name names. >> a woman brought me here. i didn't know i was going to be sold. she took the money and gave the

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following a series of raids on brothels across the country, british police are moving on to the next stage of their operation. they are seeking to identify and arrest the higher-ups who are trafficking women from asia and eastern europe to work in british brothels. many of the victims removed from the brothels had been too frightened to talk. however, in devon in southwestern england, one woman who we will call lily has been brave enough to come forward. she was part of a massive

international trafficking network that stretches around the world. one of those working hard on lily's case is sergeant ian tomlinson of the devon and cornwall police force. >> she entered into a contract in thailand some weeks previously. her family had paid 10,000 pounds for her to come over to she thought it was ireland she was going to to work initially in the restaurant trade. but the victim told us she was flown by abu dhabi into dublin and from dublin by train to belfast and from belfast, a quick hop over to england. >> translator: a woman brought me here. i didn't know i was going to be sold. she took the money and gave the buyer my passport. they said i had a debt and that i had to work to pay it off. >> lily, who came from thailand, told police that the

international human trafficking network illegally brought her and other women to brothels across the united kingdom. the first people identified by lily are a mother and daughter team. they were managing a brothel in plymouth, where lily was forced to work. police follow up lily's lead. >> it's a lady by the name of mi-tieng wan, a malaysian lady we have already interviewed, and also, her daughter called grace lim. they are running a small network of brothels and they are involved in trafficking young girls to staff these brothels, thereby facilitating their movement for the purposes of prostitution within the country. >> based on lily's detailed testimony, the two women are brought in for questioning. now sergeant tomlinson and

detectives jones and clement go to the police station to make the arrests. >> mary, if you can just -- let's get straight inside. >> you're going -- >> both of you. i'll talk to both of you. >> i'm arresting you now on suspicion of human trafficking and being involved in the management of a brothel. >> we searched their home address and found numerous documentary exhibits that link them to other agencies and to other brothels, and telephone numbers within the network around the uk. those pieces of paper and documentary exhibits will be put to them for comment during interview.

in the case of grace lim, she has been shown a number of them already and has made comment about them in the negative, and since then, we have been able to show that she is actually responsible for producing those items. so she will be questioned further. >> lily tells the police that she was held against her will in their brothel, and terrorized by the mother/daughter team into having sex with men. >> translator: they refused to give my passport back. the trafficker said that if i tried to escape, or told the police or the thai embassy, they would come after me. they said my parents back in thailand would be in trouble. i couldn't cope with that. >> the victim was stating that she was held there against her will and that she received no money. she was having up to four to five clients a day and that meeting one was taken the money.

she was told she had to do everything the client said and if the client complained, she would become very aggressive with her. >> the police now believe the daughter, 19-year-old grace lim, is just as deeply involved in the trafficking network as her mother. >> i think she's equally as culpable as her mother. >> yeah. >> she's very wise for her years. >> yeah. >> and she's made efforts to try and encourage other people involved in the network to tell lies to help her mom out while her mom has been remanded in custody. we have evidence of text messages sent asking people to become witnesses to try and help prove her mother's account. the good thing was that she commented on some things that she was obviously comfortable with so when she was asked, for example, about her bank account, she was quite happy to sit there and say i've got a bank account, there's no money in it, feel free to have a look. but when you ask her questions in relation to the trafficking, and the management of the brothel, she closes right down. >> the crown prosecution service or cps which will prosecute the case has approved the evidence offered by sergeant tomlinson and his team. they agree that there's a strong case against the two women.

the police are now in a position to press serious charges. >> grace lim will be charged with the management of the brothel at taunton and wong will be jointly charged with two further traffic offenses. wong is liable as a principle of the worst slave offense. with the management of the brothel at taunton and wong will be charged with two further trafficking offenses. wong is liable as a principle of the worst slave offense. i feel quite strong about it. >> coming up -- police identify another person of interest involved in trafficking lilly. >> as far as trafficking is concerned, he is as bad as they get. but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she's right behind me isn't she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

devon and cornwall detectives have just arrested a merge and daughter team for trafficking the thai victim, lilly. they're now following leads that take them to london in pursuit of a woman they think is laundering the money for the traffickers. >> we are just riding up the street to the thai airlines building there. we've got inquiries to make with a lady by the name of bisco. we don't know the level of this lady's involvement at the moment. we've got enough grounds to arrest her if we need to. >> they suspect she is the

banker for the masterminds trafficking women like lilly out of thailand. >> it looks like she is ahead of us. >> initial questioning confirms bisco's involvement in the trafficking. she's arrested and taken to a london police station for further questioning. meanwhile, police seize bank records at her home where they're examined by financial investigators. >> i've been through the computers now. there is spreadsheet upon spreadsheet upon spreadsheet of moneys moving in and out of country. she is the money lady dealing with transactions for individuals working at different brothels around the country.

>> what sort of money are we talking about, roughly? >> 480,000 over 18-month period. >> investigators find evidence that bisco is running a sophisticated money-laundering operation. >> it appears it is like family members who are sending the money back to. i'm still not utterly unconvinced they are not with drawing the money by cash, bisco, and she is buying jewelry and antiques because there are lists of diamonds and jewelry and geld that she buys. it appears, that they could be buying jewels and then taking them out in the country. >> further investigation reveals that bisco deposited almost $2.5 million. this is equivalent to proceeds from at least ten trafficked women. in the sex trafficking economy, it is estimated that traffickers can make more than $200,000 a year from just one woman. >> translator: the woman who brought me from thailand said my price was $48,000.

the buyer then tried to bargain with the price. they said, $48,000 was too much. and asked her to reduce the price. she refused to reduce the price, so i was sold for $48,000. >> as more trafficked women confide in the police, the scale and horror of this modern day slave trade is being revealed. the devon and cornwall police identified a man the a the heart of lilly's ordeal. >> it looks more an more like this individual, gomart is the next one up the chain. moving the victim around the country and trafficking her, taking her to various brothels and delivering her to different places. if you listen to the victim, she was told she would be working in the restaurant trade. so, yeah, as far as trafficking is concerned, he is as bad as they get. >> he is also known by his alien, tu. >> tu is a driver who thinks the girls surrounding in brothels in

london and the rest of the network throughout the country. >> operation pentamter's two approach is netting results. >> they know that specifically sex trafficking is a problem in their country and they decided to go after it by way of mapping it. not just stopping with the initial arrest of one buyer or perhaps one manager of a brothel. but really trying to connect all of the dots to see how women and children are brought into britain and exploited in this way. >> coming up -- after some smart police work, the woman who sold lilly at a london slave auction is found and arrested. >> fantastic. that's what we are looking for. i have never encountered such a burning sensation...

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>> welcome back to msnbc undercover, sex slaves, uk. operation 2 is making good progress. local police forces working in close coordination are climbing up the criminal lad every to first identify then capture the people who are bringing in women from asia and eastern europe to work against their will in british broth els. the next person in their sights, a man by the name of shu, yu, waning. two months after the original police raid on one of the brothels, it reopens for business but under the ever watchful eye of the police. >> yes, yes. >> the police allow the brothel

to reopen in order to gather additional evidence against the man they believe to be the owner, shu yu wang. they also suspect he is a key player in britain's international network. they have been using the extensive closed circuit tv net to work secretly track waning's activities. >> she's the one that went into the -- >> she is banking now. >> yeah? >> they think the woman has been depositing woman from the brothel into shu yu wang's account. >> she has been going to the bank. putting money in the an in cash. which is common to what they do, if it not her account, she put a

phone call into the main, in the organized crime group to say, i have deposited that money and it is definitely in the account. because i've just checked. if it's been credited into that account, she will put a phone call in. so i guarantee you will see a phone call go on. >> police are gathering a clear picture of how the network operates. but they have yet to track down their number one target, shu yu wang. >> so this picture we've got, somebody purports him to be shu yu wang. >> that's the best photo of this stage of the male purporting to be wang with that date of birth. >> detective lee uses the national data base it gather more information on wang. it puts him at the center of an even larger network than police first thought. >> we've got, a-1 rated intelligence, and he is active. not just in chelt enem.

but in bristol area and active all the way down to guilford. >> despite the intelligence, shu yu wang is illusive but lee has a breakthrough. painstaking cross checking reveals that wang is enrolled as full-time student at six different british universities. >> we think he is going from one university to another. in order to legitimize his role as a student. for a student immigration visa. so he is taking somebody else's place on that course. he is just not attending but he will use that to his justify being who are to immigration. he will say, actually i'm a student. >> wang is using his student standing to avoid time limitations ever his immigration status but now detective lee hopes to turn the tables and track him down at one of the universities. >> i've got an interest in a character i think may have a

connection to your business school. there may be a pupil there. okay sir name is wang, w-a-n-g. first name is s-h-u-y-u. i've got a date of birth. that's it, yeah. okay. thank you very much. i'll speak to you shortly. this that was interesting. it would appear that wang is currently a full-time student at university of east angular. >> on further investigation, detective lee discovered that not only is wang attending the university, he is also living in

a student dormitory. after months of investigation, the police may finally catch the man they suspect of supplying dozens of women to british brothels. >> coming up -- investigators make a house call. >> you're under arrest on suspicion of involvement in a brothel. roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep? (sfx: loud thud sound) what a strange place. geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. a thing that helps you wbuy other things.hing. but plenty of companies do that.

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trafficking, police from gloss chester county are on their way to england's east coast to arrest man they think is a key player in trafficking dozens of women to brothels across the country. >> the point of today is to execute a warrant in a room within the residence of the university. the subject that we will be seeking today is a gentleman by the name of shuyu wang.

>> the police are hoping a dawn raid on his dorm will catch wang fast asleep in his bedroom. it has taken the police months of work to get to this door. >> hello? >> the police. >> mr. wang? >> yeah. >> you're under arrest. my name is dc thomas. you are under arrest of suspicion of involvement in a brothel. february of last year and this year. don't say anything you don't have to say anything. it may harm your defense. do you have any clothes on? >> can i just -- >> have you got any clothes on? >> yeah, i have clothes on. >> what are your plans for today? anything you need to organize.

>> some reading. some work. >> take a book with you then. >> one minute millionaire. >> yeah. >> dc lee. >> how are you? >> detective lee gets a call he's been waiting for. the one confirming wang's arrest. >> spot on. >> with shuyu wang locked up, they can now put the next phase of the operation into effect, a full scale raid on his reopened brothel. >> mr. wang? >> he will be kept out of communication to prevent him from tipping people off, effectively. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the briefing. for those of you involved last

time, it'll be a similar operation. a premises identified which we have established as being used as a brothel, which has been using girls who are very strongly suspected to be illegal immigrants who have been trafficked into the uk and have been kept for the purposes of prostitution and moved around the country to serve as uk brothels. fortunately when we did the warrants on the 4th of december, the person organizing the trafficking and arranging for the financial issues we missed. we have worked quite hard the last few months.

we have now identified him and he is a chinese national organizing all of the financial and all of the operational side behind the brothel you will be doing today. he was arrested this morning at about 7:00 on university campus there. >> so what is jim? jim, don't bother holding station on forward deployment. go straight in. strike. over. >> okay. >> stop, stop, stop. >> don't move. stay where you are. >> you all right? >> yeah, fine. >> male and female? >> male and female. >> on the second raid of wang's brothel, two women, most likely trafficked, as well as a customer customer hiding in a closet. >> premises is secured. we will start identifying rooms and then start moving around. everything is under control.

>> the police seize cell phones, several with shuyu wang's number in them, along with passports and financial records. there is clear evidence of shuyu wang's involvement in a large trafficking network. >> the brothel is closed down for the second time. after a six-month investigation, glost gloss set offer police closed down the op ralgs for good. one of the victims rescued from his brothel is a 15-year-old girl. she tells police she was trafficked from clina four months ago. as all such operations, police will provide counseling. this is a key component in any

effort to right the wrongs of human trafficking. >> you can't underestimate the need for victim services at the moment of raid. both for the victim, him or herself, need for her to be stabilized, feel empowered. but also if we have all of these other goals. if you don't have the victim stabilized and empowered, how will that person participate in the investigation and prosecution. >> another continuing focus of operation pentamter 2 is in devon and cornwall. there, police are eager to

apprehend the criminals responsible for trafficking the thai victim, lilly. >> officers ian tomlinson and rob clement, believe that gomart is one of those responsible for her trafficking. >> the information we've had is that two specifically of our victim, identified her and wanted her to be brought over from thailand. >> as with many suspects in the human trafficking investigation, police add hard time finding gomart. he always managed to stay one step ahead. but now they are in london, armed with a dozen possible addresses, linked to him. >> it's not easy to stay on the run for any definite amount of time. we've circulated with him, so if he comes to notice of the police or trying to leave the country on those details, that he will be stopped and arrested.

it may fake take the address and i'm going to give a ring and see if he wants us to take the direct approach and ring two up and say, we'd like to speak to you. the question i need to ask, in all likelihood he's going to find out that we have that number at which time if he throws it in the bin, we are no more forward. the other option is to ring him up and see if he wants to come in. i think, yeah, he will. and i really do think that he will bing that number the minute he finds out. right. okay. we'll give him a call. cheers, then. bye. sergeant tomlinson has the go

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within the last three weeks. a major player in the sex trafficking industry, the man believed to have trafficked the tie victim lilly a. recently discover discovered cell phone number, out of hiding. >> hello? hi, is that tu? of this is detective tomlinson. i need to chat with you at some point. hello, can you speak to me.

>> he hung up. >> it went dead. hello, is that tu? i need to speak to you, please, over some matters. i would like to meet you as soon as possible, please, if that's all right. do you know where the serpentine is at hyde park? i'll go there and we can find a place where we can chat. all right. cheerio, bye. there you go. he says he's going to meet us in hyde park. so we need to -- yeah, he

assures me he will be here. but he might have just bought himself an hour's thinking time, really. he could be on route to buy himself a false passport and be half out the country. but we will just come in here for a second mate. just come in here somewhere identifiable. that's where i've been before, car park, down by that lake. right. okay. >> hello? >> hello, mr. gomart? >> yes. hello, tomlinson again. i said i would ring you back with a better location in hyde park. >> when i go there, i call you again. and you can come to pick me up or something. >> okay. are you traveling by car or on

foot? >> no, because i don't have a car. >> oh, you don't have a car. i do apologize. >> no, no, no, no car at all. >> right. i can pick you up at a tube station if that's any good. >> okay, yeah. when i go to the tube station somewhere, yeah and then i call you and you come to pick me up. >> yes, no problem. >> okay? >> the police have said a trap for gomart and are hoping their

low-key approach will lure him in. if he does show up, they feel they have more than you've evidence to convict him. >> it is frustrating. >> he's just run me. he rung me, he is at the tube station, and he will meet us outside the mariott now. happy with that? let's go. >> it's been four hours since the police first spoke with gomart. it's looking like he's a no-show. then, suddenly, -- >> now then, you're a difficult man to find. >> why? why? >> what you need to understand is, as you know, we've been looking for you for a long time and we know a lot about you. so we will know when you are telling us the truth and when you are not. >> i'm a good person. and i can't help, i try to help everyone.

>> gomart's willingness to meet with police speaks to an important problem with law enforcement and human trafficking. >> regardless of his criminal activities, you would think he would least be concerned about his immigration status. but the fact that he actually showed up i think shows the degree to which traffickers, human traffickers, still operate with total impunity in our society. >> they don't feel that they are going to get in trouble for this. when you feel that you are not going to get in trouble, you're not going to hide it. >> coming up, operation pentamter 2 nets its biggest fish yet. drug and alcohol abuse is up. and those dealing with grief don't have access to the professional help they need. when you see these issues, do you want to walk away or step up? with a degree in the field of counseling or psychology from

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>> this has been floating around in the air for quite a while now. so it would be nice to put a face to the name. >> after several unsuccessful raids it find bar, this address seems promising. all hopes rest on this newest lead and to her whereabouts. >> police! >> in here, in here. come in here, now! stand still. mrs. been a warrant. what is your name? story? >> just relax. >> hello, there. my name is tomlinson. i'm a detective from cornwall. down quite a long way away from here. but we have some questions we may need to ask you about this

premises. and about your status in the country. okay. at this moment then i would say to you that you don't have to say anything but it may harm your defense, if you don't answer one question, anything you do say may be given under evidence. okay? fantastic. bang on, chaps. that's what we're looking for. yeah, superb. superb. all right, thanks, chaps. >> the way she behaved in the premises when officers went in there, she was desperately trying to get to a telephone, to delete information within it. yeah. i think we've got our girl. >> finally, after six months and

numerous raids across the country, devon and cornwall police managed to find and arrest, bar, a slave trader responsible for buying women at auction. including potentially lilly. back in gloucester county, police are focusing in on another and more sophisticated trafficking ring with links back to china. >> the organization here, behind the crime groups seems to be much swifter, much quicker, organized. they have gone through four prom sis in less than three months. >> this gag appears to be operating a nationwide network of brothels and moves their locations regularly to confuse the police. >> i think if you compare that with the other two known groups, they've been at a much lower level.

they have taken a lot more time to get organized, their management chain hasn't been so good, las it? you are looking at a much more professionally organized outfit here. >> detective andy lee believes this new network as links to a major organized crime syndicate and is head bade known criminal. >> i know that he was born in 1959. he is chinese national. he is here, i believe, at the moment legally. he has previous convictions and previous arrests. and he is an elective member or a person connected to the chinese crime community. >> zu has been particularly illusive so detective lee is relying on his extensive camera surveillance operation to find him. >> we have add cove ert camera concealed within a particular premises for about a week now. this is the view to the entrance to the underroad brothel. that's the address, that comes to the steps, car parking area, main road.

>> detective lee identified the man he thinks is managing zu's business. they're hoping he will eventually lead them to zu. in shades of big brother, the police use cheltenham's closed circuit video network to track his every move. >> sure, he's moving. yeah. >> we've got him now on our means. >> the man appears not only to be depositing the brothel's earnings but is seen on camera entering the local newspaper office to place an ad. >> he's running a business. and any business has to advertise because otherwise people wouldn't know it's there

to offer its wears. he's got to keep his money coming in. he's got to run his business. that needs to be advertised. to do that, he's you know, got to go into newspapers, he's got to go on to any form of media that accepts that type of thing, the internet is another one that these people will use. >> as suspected, zu eventually returns to cheltenham. detective lee and his team make the arrest. >> do you want a telephone call? >> yeah. >> go into your cell.

shoes off. >> basically we have 24 hours to return someone, arrest someone and bring them to the station and for more serious case that can be extended to 12 hours taking us up to 36. we to keep them into custody for longer than that we have to go to the magistrate's court. >> they get the full 36 hours but with only 12 hours left, the pressure is 07b to gather enough evidence to hold zu.

>> we will be looking at getting two maybe three sets of interviews into him this morning and this afternoon. >> if police fail to convince the crown prosecutors to keep zu in custody they will have no choice but to release him with the fear he will skip the country. >> they need almost every minute they've been granted but finally they present their case to the crown prosecution lawyer. >> so basically, what you are concerned about is remand in custody and remanding custody is on the basis of failing to surrender substantial fair due to the fact of his nationality, status and the fact he hasn't complied. coming up, one of his partners is arrested in thailand. >> if she's found guilty, she's looking at about 20 years.

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british police have developed a better understanding of how the network that trafficked the victim known as lilly operates in the uk. >> i'm surprised at how we've managed to unravel it, let me put it that way, because it is frustrating. everybody seems to have about

four different naps. >> but trafficking is an international crime. and operation pentameter 2 is now traveling from britain to island. a major break through by the police has brought one of the investigative teams from deppon and cornwall to bangkok. >> we have managed to break up the uk network andes a the thai police in breaking up the thai network in bangkok. >> since safely returning to thailand, lilly has been working with the royal thai police. information she has given them led to the arrest of a woman named jay ju. she is identified by lilly as

the woman who trafficked her from bangkok to london. devon and cornwall police meet their thai counter parts at children and women's division known as cwd and learn something terrifying. >> so that they recorded that someone similar to jaju's description was threatening her. and so the cwd officers, they got immediate orders to go to the hometown under that area. and contact the local police and have them work on finding 0u9 where jaju was. and so when they went up there, they saw that jaju was walking around under that area. and so they brought her in for questioning. questioning her background. and they also brought a picture for the victim to look at. and when a picture of jaju was brought to the victim, the victim affirmed that that was jaju. you can see a picture, the

picture in the lower left corner is actually when she was arrested. her arm -- her arm's injured but not due to the arrest but police cwd. >> if arrested and convicted, what are the offenders in the thai case, what sentences are they likely to receive? >> translator: right now, it's in court proceedings. and if she is found guilty of forcing someone or deceiving someone into prostitution, then she is looking at about 20 years. >> jaju's arrest has brought it light the scale and reach of this international trafficking network. supplying the brothels across britain and also the u.s. and other countries. >> jaju visited japan, australia and america. then it is almost certain that

they traffic girls into those other countries. so it is a truly global enterprise that those females are involved in. so i think ourselves and the thai police have played a significant role in preventing further victims. >> in the u.s., we have both u.s. citizens and foreign nationals as victims of human trafficking. the trade routes into the u.s. are varied. we have worked with clients from the middle east, southeast asia, mexico, central america, southern africa, west africa, who are involved in both labor trafficking and sex trafficking. >> we thought it would be successful to the offenders in the uk but to think now that with the thai police, we've got

the offenders and the real organizers here in thailand, they've got them locked up as well and they are looking at significant sentences if convicted. no, i never thought would he get this far. one of the things we hope to achieve through this investigation is to show these traffics in thailand that it won't be tolerated in the uk. >> the police now successfully piecing the puzzle of many of those involved in trafficking lilly. >> the whole process stafrts by an individual in thailand targeting a vulnerable family, who have a daughter who wants to travel to the uk. and offering them finance. once that finance is taken off them, he puts that -- the victim, into contact with the traffickers. we've got the whole network here really from the managers of the brothel here, to the people facilitating transport. we've got the buyers. we've got the traffickers from thailand as well. and somebody who is sorting out the proceeds and money-laundering as well. >> in order to secure convictions in britain for all

of these involved in lilly's case, it's essential she positively identifies her traffickers. for her own safety, lilly is now in the witness protection program in thailand. but in an incredible act of bravery, she agrees to return to the uk to help identify and convict her traffickers. >> ways quite surprised she actually would agree to come back. she has no reason to support prosecution. but she seems still very determined in the fact that she's going to still support us, which is a very positive thing.

>> it is a big day for our inquiry. a big chunk of evidence. >> so as not to be accused of influencing lilly, officer tomlinson and clement can't be there at the identification process. >> just give us a call. >> the first procedure is for gomart, where she will be shown -- the victim will be shown a series of images and asked to identify the person who she knows as tu. hopefully she will pick out gomart. if she doesn't, then it could cause us problems. it is an important one, the first one, it will set the tone for the whole of this week. >> gomart is the man they believe is responsible for delivering lilly to various brothels around the country. >> we put an awful lot of work into finding him. there was a lot of inquiries made. so we were tracking him and we were quite pleased when we finally did. so it would be good now to get that identification.

>> if lilly doesn't positively i.d.gomart, the team won't have enough evidence to convict him and will have no close but to see him walk free. >> can i speak to you. >> yeah. >> she's positively and clearly identified gomart. can i ask what did he do? she says, he is the one who girls the drove around. >> did she id him as the man called tu? >> yes. >> good. >> couldn't ask better than that. excellent. >> lilly is shown photographs of all her traffickers and positively identifies each member of the gang. and now, almost a year out from her ordeal, she is also given the police a much fuller view of what actually happened to her. >> coming up, operation pentameter 2 starts to wind down as lilly opens up. >> she has told us that she was drown in a bath of water when she told one madam from a brothel that she wanted to leave. giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts, more events, more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now?

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the investigation of has been one of the most successful cases and one that allows police to gain insight into how this

samef samef shameful industry works. put your hand up, i'll buy her, 30,000, and the deal is done. she was only in the country for just over three weeks when she was rescued. although it seems relatively short space of time, you've got to take into account this strain of it and on each of those days, in those three to four weeks, she's been forced to have sex with ten to 15 men a day against her will. >> what lilly reveals next proves how sophisticated this sex trafficking network is. >> she was given a number of women who she was told she could

give this woman a safe place to go and would help her out. she brings the number and picks up the phone at which point he says, i will get some none to you transferred by western union so he sends her 1507 pounds by western union which he does thinking that she's going to a place of safety which upon arrival she is going to go to work and she says i came from the claws of the tiger into the mouth of the crocodile. >> translator: i couldn't take it any longer. they lied and took advantage of me. they said, you're in this country illegally so you have no choice. you have to do what he tells

you. >> it's almost work worse what gomart has done, forcing her back into prostitution to make money for herself. >> during her three weeks as a sex slave, lilly was subjected to both physical and mental abuse, not only at the hands of her captors but also from the customers. >> she says that she was drowned in a tub of bath water when she told one man that she wanted to leave. one of her customers insisted on putting bits of metal inside a condom which caused her internal bleeding and injuries afterwards. also, being hit with a belt by certain customers. >> i think one of the reasons we are reluctant to criminalize the pool of buyers and we're reluctant to know who they are, they have these fantastically

anonymous names. these are people in our communities creating this demand for these traffickers. >> this is one victim but she was rained, held unlawfully against her will. you will find brothels and victims in every town in england. >> and a supply of human trafficking victims is only expanding. >> the global recession has exploded the number of slaves, exploded the number of people that are he trafficked. many people want to move from point a to point b what they don't sign up for is the abuse, rape, the violence, the slavery that happens at point b. >> police! >> when it was all over, operation pentameter 2 became the biggest crackdown in

international sex trafficking in british history. in all, british police arrested 164 victims and arrested 406 suspects. 67 people were charged with trafficking in human beings. operation pentameter supplied human trafficking. >> they were able to engage all police offices nationwide. that's not something that we can do here in america with the ease that they did. however, you do see in the u.s. the fbi making multijurisdictional approaches to come back into the sex trafficking. >> it took three years to convict the criminals featured in this program. >> we found it has to be dug out. you have to go looking for it. once you start looking for it,

it will. >> the big issue now is what do we do post pentameter. if we walk away and leave it, we're going to be needing a pentameter 3 in a few years time. the people we're dealing with are shrewd, very confident business people.

>> since the end of operation pentameter 2, all of the police officers featured in this program returned to their normal duties. meanwhile, the multibillion dollar human trafficking business continues to thrive both in britain and around the world. human rights advocates charge that law enforcement doesn't do enough either in america or in other countries to fight it. operation pentameter 2 and its success is more the exception than the rule. for msnbc, i'm natalie morales, thanks for watching.