Two Russians profited from slave labor for years

In Vladimir, two men will stand trial for using the slave labor of 18 people. Senior assistant to the head of the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), Evgenia Gorin, told Lenta.ru about this.

According to the investigation, from July 2022 to September 2025, the defendants were looking for people with unstable social connections in the Ivanovo, Kostroma and Vladimir regions. Later, they kidnapped and brought them to Vladimir, where they forced them to work as laborers at one of the city’s enterprises.

Men took the wages for the labor of slaves for themselves. The victims' documents were taken away, and the people were kept in an uninhabited, dilapidated house on Feygina Street. They provided food and basic necessities. All slaves were locked up at night and transported to and from their place of work. Those who tried to object were threatened with violence.