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Nov 19, 2005 7:22 am US/Eastern
Customs Agent Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy Charges
NEW YORK (AP) ―
A former U-S Customs inspector pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of conspiring with two Queens bar owners who admitted to smuggling Korean women into the United States and forcing them to work for little or no money.
Prosecutors had charged 27-year-old Nisim Yushuvayev, a former Customs and Border Protection marine inspector, with obstructing the human trafficking investigation by trying to take one victim to the airport against her will and send her back to Korea, so that she could not testify.
The bar owners, 41-year-old Kyongja Kang and her husband, 42-year-old Wun Kang, also pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of forced labor.
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