Police charge nine individuals who posed as modelling agency but manipulated women into shooting porn

Detectives from the National Centre for Combatting Organized Crime have filed charges of human trafficking, sexual coercion and rape against nine individuals after uncovering a crime ring that posed as a modelling agency only to force female victims into sex. This was recorded and then put online as pornography under the channel “Czech casting”, spokesman Jaroslav Ibehej informed on the police unit’s website on Friday.

According to police the group had been putting up ads since 2013, which offered paid professional modelling photograph opportunities for women over 18. However, this was only a trick to find women and subsequently manipulate them into filming pornographic videos.

The videos were subsequently posted online causing personal and employment difficulties to many of the victims. Furthermore, some of the women suffered from psychological and health problems as a result, Ibehej said, noting that hundreds of women took part in these “castings”.