Hundreds of vulnerable women and children are being trafficked to the UK to shoplift for Eastern European crime groups, the BBC has learned.
One company in Scotland told BBC File on 4 it had identified a gang with 154 shoplifters stealing high-value items in bulk to sell or ship abroad.
Ms Fraser said the gang has a number of children who have been trafficked to the UK specifically to shoplift.
Another 100-strong gang operates in London with members that are almost exclusively female, all trafficked from Eastern Europe.
He said gangs will choose young women to carry out crimes because they are less likely to be seen as criminals by security guards and shop staff.
They are living in houses of multiple occupancy, 30, 40 of them at a time, sleeping on mattresses in dirty rooms, being used and abused as criminals for financial gain."
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Hundreds of vulnerable women and children are being trafficked to the UK to shoplift for Eastern European crime groups, the BBC has learned.
One company in Scotland told BBC File on 4 it had identified a gang with 154 shoplifters stealing high-value items in bulk to sell or ship abroad.
Ms Fraser said the gang has a number of children who have been trafficked to the UK specifically to shoplift.
Another 100-strong gang operates in London with members that are almost exclusively female, all trafficked from Eastern Europe.
He said gangs will choose young women to carry out crimes because they are less likely to be seen as criminals by security guards and shop staff.
They are living in houses of multiple occupancy, 30, 40 of them at a time, sleeping on mattresses in dirty rooms, being used and abused as criminals for financial gain."
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