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| Men sentenced for sex trafficking | Men sentenced for sex trafficking |
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| Two men have been jailed for more than 12 years at Cardiff Crown Court for trafficking women for prostitution. | |
| Arjan Kanani, 22, and Erjon Javori, 32, both from Albania, were arrested in a police operation targeting women trafficked to work in the sex industry. | |
| Both admitted trafficking people. Javori, Queenwood, Cardiff, was given seven years and Kanani, Adelphi Street, Sheffield, five-and-a half years'. | |
| The judge ordered that they be deported at the end of their sentence. | The judge ordered that they be deported at the end of their sentence. |
| Both had been held in a UK-wide police operation, Operation Pentameter. | |
| The court heard the men were involved in prostituting four Lithuanian women at brothels in Birmingham and Cardiff. | |
| The women were intimidated into handing over daily earnings of up to £400, the jury heard. | |
| Robert Brown, prosecuting, said the men would pick up the women from Gatwick Airport and put them to work immediately in brothels in Birmingham. | |
| Operation Pentameter found more than 80 trafficked women | |
| The women would be put in hotels with other prostitutes. | |
| Javori and Kanani were held during one of more than 500 raids by Operation Pentameter, which rescued 84 trafficked women, 12 of whom were aged between 14 and 17. | |
| Javori pleaded guilty to trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation, causing or inciting prostitution for gain, and two counts of controlling prostitution for gain. | |
| Kanani pleaded guilty to two counts of controlling prostitution for gain, trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation, and trafficking into the UK for sexual exploitation. | |
| Javori, who used an interpreter in court, hurled abuse in English at police officers as he was led to the cells. |