The firm was advertising its activity in the Ukrainian media, including newspapers. The so-called modeling agency existed for three years. The girls were paid from $10 to $40 for a photo session.Ī spokesman for the Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry said that the majority of girls' parents knew, or had a suspicion of their children’s “work,” although no one went to the police to report the crime, Interfax said. It turned out that the criminals were telling girls' parents that their children were working in the modeling business. The illegal firm had its branch offices in other Ukrainian cities, Kharkov and Simferopol.

The Ukrainian police arrested the organizers of the 'modeling business.” The criminals rented a studio in the center of Kiev, the Ukraine’s capital, in which video and photo shoots were conducted, Interfax reports.

The criminals uploaded the video footage and pictures on foreign pornsites. Disguised as a fashion model agency, the group was making pornographic photographs and films with participation of teenage girls, from 8 to 16 years old. The Criminal Investigation Department of the Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry detected and neutralized the criminal group in July of 2004. The exact court and the date of the hearings have not been coordinated yet. The chairman of the department for struggle with human trafficking crimes, Mikhail Andreyenko, told reporters on Wednesday, Apthat the preliminary investigation on the case had been completed. Investigators determined that over 1,500 under-age girls had been invoked in the illegal porn business.

Ukrainian law-enforcement authorities have recently filed a criminal case against a local company, which was producing and distributing child pornography. The following are news articles about the bust:ĭisguised as a modeling agency, the firm rented a studio in the center of Kiev LS-Studios was shut down in 2004 after it was raided in a joint effort by various law enforcement agencies around the world. The photography produced by LS Studio is commonly found in the illegalĬollections of Child Pornography convicts, and in most cases, it was not The backgrounds appeared to be custom-built, similar to stage-play sets. Many laterĬollections also featured the girls wearing custom-tailored costumes. Implied sexual acts such as the models sucking on bananas. No actual sexual acts were portrayed but there were Later collections also contained many images of girls in sexually While early collections often featured nude girls in natural poses, The following excerpt about this agency comes from the pedophile website, Newgon: Meet Alexander Chursin of the Ukraine, he owned and operated a child pornography agency known as 'LS-Studios' from 2001 up until 2004. Alexander Chursin being escorted by police

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