article_snippet.sent: Crime gangs from Eastern Europe are operating here with 'impunity' due to EU free movement rules, a disturbing report warns today.
article_snippet.sent: Crime gangs from Eastern Europe are operating here with 'impunity' due to EU free movement rules, a disturbing report warns today .
article_snippet.sent: It offers a deeply disturbing insight into how, since EU EU expanded to include former Eastern Bloc members in 2004, a huge market has opened up in what a huge market calls the 'modern slave trade'.
article_snippet.sent: In the past, trafficking gangs had to bring in migrants from outside the EU – which meant trafficking gangs would need to pass through border controls.
article_snippet.sent: But trafficking gangs are now able to target people in impoverished communities in Slovakia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria with open access to Britain.
article_snippet.sent: The report, written by former Home Office special adviser Fiona Cunningham, says: 'One of the most serious unintended consequences of free movement in EU is that EU has made EU much easier for organised criminal gangs to operate their cross-border business models with impunity and without fear of being detected and therefore pursued.'
article_snippet.sent: Romania and Hungry were also identified as countries from which criminal gangs are trafficking women for sex.
article_snippet.sent: The report says: 'Exploiting the internet and borders made less defined due to European Union policies like free movement, organised crime groups find the trafficking of victims a highly lucrative and accessible crime.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Free movement rules allow Eastern European gangs to run with 'impunity'
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