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MOSCOW, July 29 (UPI) -- Two Russian men have been sentenced to jail for kidnapping homeless people and forcing them to work in a scrap metal processing plant for as long as five years.
The men are from the Perm region, and the Moscow Times reported Thursday the 11 homeless victims were given alcohol rather than salaries. A jury sentenced Alexei Kiselyov, 32, to eight years, and Vyacheslav Bobchikhin, 30, to six years. They were also ordered to pay 525,000 rubles ($17,000) to the victims.
The pair sought out homeless victims with alcohol problems in the Perm region towns of Gubakha and Gremyachinsk between 2003 and 2008. Prosecutors said the victims were taken to a scrap metal plant in Gubakha where their documents were seized.
Police uncovered the plan after one of the victims escaped and reported his kidnapping. According to Russian courts, 246 people were found guilty of using slave labor in 2009, but fewer than half were given prison sentences.
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