Three residents of Kuzbass were detained for using slave labor of nine people.

Three residents of the Kemerovo region were detained for the illegal detention and use of slave labor of nine people. This was announced on April 11 by the press service of the regional directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

"In the period from 2012 to April 2025, the defendants illegally detained at least nine people without permanent residence in the basement of the garage located in the backyard of the house of one of them on Sosnovskaya Street in Novokuznetsk," the department's Telegram channel says.

It is specified that the detainees did not have a permanent place of residence. This became known after one of the women escaped from prison and told about the incident.

The Investigative Committee reported that the attackers held five men and four women in the basement, whose labor was used to sort garbage. If the defendants refused to work, physical force was used against them.

Three Novokuznetsk residents between the ages of 24 and 48 were brought to justice. A criminal case has been opened against them under paragraphs "a, g" of Part 2 of Article 127 of the Criminal Code ("Unlawful imprisonment") and paragraphs "a, g" of Part 2 of Article 127.2 of the Criminal Code ("Use of slave labor"). The issue of his choice of a preventive measure in the form of detention will be resolved in the near future.

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