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With her big blue
eyes and cute smile, four-year-old Angela would tug at
the heartstrings of any parent.
But like her
five-year-old brother Aco and their friend Jovanna,
blonde Angela is up for SALE to anyone with enough cash
to buy her.
Incredibly, the
head of a British-funded charity is at the centre of
this despicable trade.
The children, some
as young as three, are snatched from their parents and
sold for as little as £300. Some are feared to have been
taken as child sex slaves. Others are put up for illegal
adoptions by couples, including Britons, desperate to
start a family.
These three
youngsters all live at a former United Nations refugee
camp in Montenegro, part of the old Yugoslavia.
Posing as child
traffickers, Sunday Mirror investigators visited the
camp outside Montenegro's capital of Podgorica run by
Christian charity boss Sinisa Nadazdin to expose the
sick trade facilitated.
He receives
donations from the British-based evangelical charity
Smile International and Catholic aid organisations which
are unaware of his "sideline".
Nadazdin, 27, told
our reporter: "A hundred kids were trafficked from this
camp...any of the children you see here are up for
sale... I am willing to do it because of my
finances."
The camp was set up
by the United Nations after the 1999 Kosovo war and now
houses 5,000 refugees in three units.
We were shown
children for sale - from £300 for a dark-skinned
three-year-old gipsy boy to £3,000 for a blonde girl of
four. Nadazdin works closely with two gipsy mafia
bosses, Vlasnim and Arton Shkreli, who "harvest" the
best-looking ones.
Locals say the
brothers use violence to rule the camps and force
families to hand over their children before fixing false
papers and smuggling them overseas.
Nadazdin said:
"Arton has a really bad reputation and you are not
surprised about anything you hear. He said about feeding
sharks with those girls."
Despite admitting
he was aware that children could be sold to paedophiles,
Nadazdin continued to negotiate with our investigators.
"Last year there was a couple from Liverpool who wanted
to buy a child," he said. "The year before, some people
from Scotland. We don't have set prices. You must
negotiate. The price least is 500 euros (£300) for a
gipsy. The maximum is 5,000 euros (£3,000)." He took us
to see two children whose pictures he had emailed to us
in the UK. We found Angela and Aco playing on a
cockroach-infested floor with other children. Nadazdin
said: "This is the best family for you to buy a child.
They are desperate." Angela was on sale for e3,500
(£2,500). Aco was available for e2,500 (£1,500). Their
destitute mother cried: "Sometimes I sell myself to give
them bread. I don't want to lose my children."
But she was quickly
silenced by 6ft 5in Nadazdin who said: "She doesn't
matter. This woman has no choice. Vlasnim wants to sell
Angela. No one defies Vlasnim. Not if they want to be
safe. He uses the knife."
One of the gang's
henchmen then made a cut-throat gesture to the
mother.
Nadazdin, director
of a local evangelical Christian charity called Philia,
claims British charity Smile International has given him
e2500 (£2,000) to look after children at the camp. On
its website Smile, run from Orpington, Kent, by Baptist
minister Clive Doubleday and his wife Ruth, write about
working with Podgorica Pentecostal Church and of
visiting the camp to distribute aid and show a religious
video.
Nadazdin told us he
hopes to persuade Smile International to help him set up
a day creche - which he would use as a "child
supermarket". He then showed us more children for sale,
including Jovanna, four, who was on offer for 1,500
euros (£900). Nadazdin said: "Take photos. Any of these
children is for sale if you like. Pressure will be put
on the parents to sell - lighter the skin, younger
child, more you pay. Black gypsies are cheapest
- no one wants them." Nadazdin told us he also
arranges illegal adoptions for cash. After leaving the
camp we got a call from Vlasnim's brother Arton,
pressing us to wrap-up a child-buying deal. He said:
"You like Angela? She is 3,500 euros. But you must pay
1,000 euros deposit to obtain documents. If that is
good, we see about more business." We claimed we were
also looking for young girls to work in massage parlours
in the UK.
Arton said: "We
have children for more delicate business than adoption.
Have girls of 12, girls of 13, girls of 14 for you.
There are 20 available now. They are pretty girls, all
of them. Some are experienced in movies, some have been
on internet sites. You will not be disappointed.
"Don't wait long. I
have other people interested."
When confronted
Nadazdin denied having sold children from the camp.
"That is illegal," he said. "But it's the right thing if
a white person is buying a child." He admitted a
paedophile could buy a child, but added: "I wouldn't
approve."
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