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Six UN Officers Fired in Prostitution Sting
Six UN police officers were removed from the Bosnian mission and sent home because of ''inappropriate behavior'' after a raid on three bars, the UN said Wednesday, November 29.
Local police, assisted by UN officers, raided the nightclubs in the Bosnian Serb town of Prijedor on Nov. 13 and found 33 women apparently forced into prostitution - some believed to be as young as 14.
Alun Roberts, the UN spokesman in Banja Luka, told reporters on Wednesday the officers had been sent home.
Prostitution is illegal in Bosnia, and the UN police are deployed in Bosnia to make sure the local police do their job and uphold the rule of law.
Women mainly from countries like Ukraine, Moldova or Romania often use illegal channels to get to Bosnia and decide to stay and work as prostitutes.
Other women, who are told they will get jobs as waitresses in Western Europe once they pass through Bosnia, get stuck here after brothel owners take their passports away.
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