Criminal gangs are tricking East Europeans into sham Scottish marriages with Asian men – selling the women for sex, labour and passports – in an expose that campaigners say reveals the extent of human slavery worldwide. The cross-border story of how destitute women are lured from Romania and Slovakia with the promise of work in Western Europe, then sold in Scotland as slaves is told in a BBC television documentary to be aired on Wednesday. Anti-slavery activists said the story was no surprise, with an estimated 46 million people living in some form of modern slavery around the globe. “Sadly,…
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