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that special forces unit joins an international team of undercover
investigators
a notoriously sex trafficking ring
their mission is to save thousands of women forced to be sex slaves
don't know I don't know that they can be murdered ago
they're talking sex risk millions of dollars trafficking women from Central
Asia
a ring that will kill to survive
the place the ties called the City of Angels
and economic how a trading center for goods from every corner of the globe
but at night Bangkok transforms
she's one of this city's most lucrative commodities that's what many of the
foreign men who travel here comes oil
most winning do the work willingly but the sex trade in Bangkok has a truly
dark side
every minute a woman or child is trafficked into sex slavery many of them
here
Steve gangster heads the freedom foundation their mandate to hunt down
animal traffickers brought into Bangkok a decade ago today he has a new target
the brutal sex trafficking rings that use thailand is their base
sex trafficking is modern-day slavery issue his once you're in a situation
that you want to get out of it you can't be well USA
is about 1.5 million sex slaves in the world today what happened in asia a lot
of my right here in Thailand
one of the country's most notorious rings is run by these banks
they look women from their impoverished country with the promise of illegitimate
jog then they fought them onto the street
tonight downstairs heading for a meeting with a confidential informant who's
watching the rain
he can't risk being funny they should an industry where thirty-five billion
dollars worldwide the traffickers will protect their profits at any cost
they were everybody at the top of this change they've lost their humanity I
would love to see them behind bars that's what I'm involved this is crazy
the 21st century we still got a lot of slavery galston meets the informant near
the red light district
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with it yet
but I get more time
and crime
despite the danger the contact agrees to keep informing on the rain
there's very little room for error this operation because they're saying where
the untouchables
we can touch them create a tidal wave of anti-union trapping efforts in this
region and they will realize that the game has changed
Steve gas there is not alone in his quest to bust the inspector joining him
as a special team trained to fight terrorism not only know exactly because
they are basically a Thai government units they conduct flag operations work
they can fill trade and try to take down means powerful individuals and
organizations
and working with them is a legendary figure two decades ago
general john hasn't met the country's assault on the russian mafia
there's a party today
thailand's anti-human trafficking division has recruited him to help take
down the drain and academic 2011
it's able to conduct business in downtown Bangkok
but the winning essay caffeinate guided by their controllers he anyway to fill
them up close with a hidden camera how much
all night according to general janet the Rings headquarters in Bangkok hotel
called the grass
that's what they expected
general john believes the ring is here because the hotel has a lot of
middle-eastern clients he's discovered that if they want commercial sex they
often want a white Muslim women other than that I
diana's along and then midway days 12 months the general and his team have
targeted the Grace Hotel behavior tonight he picks up a lead an undercover
hears about his back sexually beaten for not making her bosses enough money
what gets through that Steve galston may be able to help
it takes days but the woman finally contact him and he secretly brings her
to a safe house
code name is end and she's scared to traffickers have her passport says she
can't leave Thailand if they discover she's talking together they could hurt
her and her family back in Pakistan
to help the police traffickers
brought together an international team of investigators dubbed Operation
graceland their first task is to help end
on curry cunanan's the intelligence officer responsible for analyzing
everything uncovered about the rain that Peters is a former UN Special Agent for
twenty years he worked undercover to pass some of America's most dangerous
criminals Natasha even over as the team's translator fluent in Russian and
German
divorced she has a son but no way to care for him
desperate for a job she was tricked into coming to Bangkok where she was handed
over to a woman named rhino
is connected to the Uzbek ring the task force agrees to help her recover her
passport and escape she promises to take them inside Bangkok sex trafficking
gangland and help them find round and those that run it works from a notorious
Bangkok nightclub Dr Peters believes he and gangsta can get in wearing hidden
cameras
security is tight
discovery of the cameras could put gas and peter is in real danger
now the two men have to move fast
they must find run out before she discovers that M has betrayed and he's
trying to escape
Doug Peters and Steve Galston a secretly filming in a club near bangkok's red
light district
their target is a nude woman named around though they know this is a club
that she often frequent
trying to find ron has shed they can set up her arrest and helping us back
section eight named an escape from the Amish control
and China and a sexually traffickers up to $1,000 a day while costing them
almost nothing prime commodities if you will pay for their own over there and
even put the right to have a job
peaches in Galston take a good look around the club
this is a place where Middle Eastern and Indian men go to meet women the perfect
venue for round
back at the safe house and identifies key members of the black ring which
means that the foot soldiers which holds the moment trying to find a way to this
lady right to know who has the Arab take photos and take it and also find her
connections back to the game that race they also find round oh just showed the
footage to em and she said yeah that's her so now we're going to the cops taken
back to the club and restaurant
the local police want to keep a low profile to avoid a confrontation so pete
has agreed to go into the club and bring running out
finally he spotted the back of the back
at the police station and insisted on confronting the woman who deceived her
and kept her here in bangkok evidence to charge she'll be released the operation
is a success they've gotten out of tonight is a police report so we can get
her temporary passport and some
basic cash to send her back home
and has also helped the task force with her information they've built a profile
of the rain it could help them and the police discover where the effects of
honorable great has been very courageous she took us into the underworld and
showed us person by person and club by club who's who
how to operate so we put a lot of pieces of the structure together
well and then she scraped many women on the streets of bangkok are still trapped
into the sex trade in Thailand without a better way to earn a living
housing center it by choice but something anybody who knows better than
most
she runs an international organization called night night it's dedicated to
helping former prostitutes leave the street and forget the past
her life to pursue her dreams
she's joined the task force to provide protection to any woman rescued
tonight eagleberger heading for the red light district as she has for the last
17 years beyond me know
but this outrageous different tonight
diesel birds taking a member of the task force right into the heart of the Uzbek
operation
the head of the United Nations inter-agency project on human
trafficking he's fought sex slavery for 25 years driven by the memory of a
fifteen year old girl in an Indian brothel young girl actually see that was
there come up to me and the daily wrap yourself around me help me help me
they're doing terrible things to me I was with a police officer is coming with
us he said no she isn't in the world where in that they're not gonna let us
leave to take her out she left and back with more place but she was gone the end
of the day that child needed somebody to help her and I wasn't there
tonight friedman's here because diesel bags discovered that the Uzbek ring is
growing fast
and I would maybe five or six
but for years ago we could count that as a team and and and a couple hours
diesel birds already had her life threatened by the Uzbek ring but she and
her team continue to offer a lifeline to any woman who wants help tonight she
picks up a room and Uzbek woman is trying to escape from the traffic is
treatment agrees to use his contacts to look for it could be the breakthrough
the task force has been searching for
today's operation graceland has been searching Bangkok foreigners back
section trying to escape from her traffickers
so using his UN contact Matt Friedman thinks he might have found her I don't
recall last night
young woman forced into prostitution ring papers have been taken away she's
been threat and this woman wants to get out and she's desperate
code name is Anna and it looks like she's not the only victim under the
control of this ring
the task force's elected and a message is sent to Anna
the plan is simple galston will make sure is on the street then an undercover
posing as a customer will pick her up and bring her to the safe house
a block away from the hotel guests us watched three years back when one of
them is Anna got hit by a truck
after confirming that Anna is available
gas to cause in the end the convo
despite her fear and begins to talk
I suspected she is under the control of the Uzbek ring
it was this ring that lured an Italian and a recruiter discovered that she was
divorced with a young baby and offered her a job in Bangkok as an escort
desperate and accepted
don't know that they will be locked up in the day a dog know that they won't be
able to say no to which sex acts are required and then they don't know
they'll be beaten
they don't know that they can be murdered they don't know they can be
gang raped they don't know really what they will begin in 2010 was trapped
there she came here winning according to international law the moment she lost
her freedom she became a victim of human trafficking upset me greatly and I know
one thing that she would carry around a little video of her baby on her phone
just too
to look at just a reminder that there's light at the end of the tunnel just
gotta get back
but there's one question an account on set
she has no idea where these banks holding her the task force must find out
fast she has just heard that she and other women get rotated by the
trafficking gang down to Malaysia where they're going to even have less chance
of escaping so she sees this as her one and only opportunity
to discover the is back hideout everyone on the team begins tapping their sources
they uncover half a dozen leach the best in an apartment building not far from
the great hotel
the anti-human trafficking division begins a twenty four-hour undercover
stakeout
they need a break through the inspection not operating alone behind them a
shadowy figures from the Middle East may be involved in far more than sex
trafficking some of them a massage controllers been hired to control these
11 oftentimes have these Iranian boyfriends who are hearing from a number
of people are involved in trafficking in ice methamphetamines and who knows what
else
those guys are involved in a possibility that makes general childhoods latest
discovery
even more chilling effects operations have expanded hang around 11 make a
comeback
money but I is another prime destination for sex tourists and general challenge
next time
Sin City 100 miles south of Bangkok
at its heart is a half-mile stretch of beer bars clubs and sex for sale
over 27,000 commercial sex workers concentrated here most do the work
willingly so it's the perfect cover for the inspection there sexy general chance
and his team have intelligence that he is back traffickers are bringing in
underage girls say the general is setting a trap to catch the ring in the
act all we need really is a conversation between you and any other information
visual or sound that you can get an undercover I will order a young black
woman to the hotel it's his job to fill the go and have been called many
problems otherwise we'll be looking at you from afar and wait till your done
on the other side of the tire taskforce partner the Thai specialty is also in
action
best taking out a hotel close to the downtown strip
according to them this is the Pattaya headquarters of the Uzbek rain
a special team has discovered that from here transport winning two hotels around
the city
one of them is general chance which hotel where he staying has begun
there
the girl
the undercover immediately get connection in charge of the page it's
the same man captured on film by the special team
and back in his room he finally gets the girl on camera
with his job done the Anacapa tells the girl he's changed his mind
ok he gives her some extra money and sent her home videos back base the
special team have identified the man in charge of delivering these girls night I
Hicks adopt and one
they also have another breakthrough they single out the Uzbek woman running the
Pattaya organization the task force now has new evidence that could help them
busty as banks
and back in Bangkok the anti-human trafficking division confirms that this
is the apartment where the ring is holding Anna
for the first time operation graceland has a chance to rescue more than a dozen
was back winning in a local hotel they prepare to hit the US banks and gather
evidence could help them take down the ring
the rate is underway the anti-human trafficking division head to the is back
hideout is already safe the police feared the ring my chipper to Malaysia
to an undercover rescued her
the raid takes the ring by complete surprise
the Thai police discovered thirteen women crammed into the room
confusion some of the women try to get
the police refuse but the controllers still try to keep the women from talking
by threatening them in his bank
at the police station the women are still allowed to stay together and the
confusion continues but the way many stick to that story many of them too
scared of the rain to admit they've been trafficked
but the police do get confirmation that the women are part of a sex ring finally
after nearly 10 hours of questioning two women code-named and indeed admit to
being trafficked
they agreed to name that was McManus and they identify a woman code named
Charlotte the same man who's tried all night to make a phone call
and then D you're probably not the only victims of sex trafficking in tonight
but they're the only ones who asked for help
Andy Samberg agrees to put them in a private shelter to protect them from the
trafficking ring
doesn't take long for the ring to strike back in 10 days
said that these two girls look to be in danger there's somebody in hot pursuit
of them now
and indeed a major threat to the inspection if the women testify they
could destroy the ring
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how well
the task force is in jeopardy
the two key witnesses are scared for their lives if they refuse to testify
shadow could go free
after nearly six months of work
operation graceland is in danger of collapsing
without new evidence against the police really shallow the Uzbek mamasan but the
task force cancer break she's met by someone they know his name is no act
he's the Middle Eastern man who was hunting for nnd gas to believe he shot
her husband and the Rings money one of the shadowy figures behind these packs
the special team has been searching for my last for months now they set up
surveillance to tracking
he leads them right back to the Grace Hotel
the special team discovers that operate out of the Hotel Cafe
running a rolling stake out a notice that he's connected to two other men
to uncover their role in the rain the special team puts both men under
intensive surveillance
weeks into the Bangkok and Pattaya operations the special teams coach Steve
gas to a deserted hotel for a briefing
even he's not allowed to see their faces but he was back to my house this special
team has identified the head of the Pattaya operation and her Central Asian
supply line but they can go to hulu.com are you mad at me when it comes to food
that he also gets a look at the Bangkok surveillance footage
now great Andaman connected to my hat in the ring when he doesn't get what I mean
which iPhone do not attack on time
great information who's the boss you know who's marketing the women and
sending the money all that kind of stuff is very very impressive for the special
team it's also very personal to me mapping and combined can do well
back in Bangkok and indeed arrived for the first time both women are under
tremendous pressure facing death threats from the Uzbek trafficking ring and
indeed change their stories the case because it to people testifying against
the two main witnesses have left their stories completely and perjured himself
after half a year of work the case against China in the EU's back Ray
scrambling and the stress is mounting
Steve council is aware that instead of helping women like and indeed he may be
putting their lives in greater danger gonna put somebody in prison for a
little while maybe but at what expense it's extremely hard to take down
traffickers without having victims testified against him but we gotta give
it a try and it requires getting inside surveilling very professionally not
letting them know that you're coming no lakes that's exactly why we've gone to
the special team to bring these guys down
and the special team is already working on a new me
may have information that a member of the Uzbek ring may be vulnerable to
rehearsals for a sting operation underway the success of operation
graceland now depends on them
a secret base the special teams making preparations there's been a breakthrough
in operation grapes and the task force has enough evidence to back up battery
on a member of the trafficking of the 23rd hour here's the final stage getting
ready to finally take down the other human traffickers are behind this whole
who is backing the special team is planning a surgical strike the target is
one of the top ties in the rain
he's highly dangerous and the assault team will be taking no chances to meet
someone like him even had to wait until the false if twenty men will pluck the
man known as m7 from his car and hope to use the threat of jail time to turn him
into an informant other words get him to provide information so they can climb
the ladder toward the top which is the hardest and longest but most important
thing that I gotta do
call one of the members of the trafficking ring has been identified and
located there to capture operation
Steve got his job is to follow one of the specialty vehicles and wait for the
signal to move in
just up the road he spots two vehicles
then the assault teams in
they got m7 and another member of this rain
to panic is worth noting that the right path
every minute the special teams fans here they become more vulnerable
within minutes they're finished the traffic is it taken away and the
operation is over
special team to get himself into a system now has a direct line into these
effects sex trafficking ring and an unprecedented opportunity to take it
apart piece by piece that appeared in 41 maybe even a little
graceland is not over to expose unravel a network like to think that what we've
done is punctured a hole big giant wheel drive in this organized crime machines
so it might actually look for a while like nothing happened in a way which we
will I think we can bring this machine down to a grinding halt we gotta keep
going