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Prosecutor General of the country, Norman Aas, said one of the cases of the mediation of prostitution was in different Tallinn apartments in 2006-2012 and another group of criminals specialized in the mediation of prostitutes to Spain.

Aas said that there was a lot of work in the human trafficking sphere as the type of crime was also also connected with bringing into the country illegal labor.

As reported, Estonian owner of a notorious erotic dancer agency Eurostrip Indrek Mandre was sentenced to imprisonment and community service in the mid August.

The entrepreneur was the country's first person sentenced to community service under newly-introduced human trafficking laws; he was sentenced to two and half years, of them six months have already been served after his arrest in February 2012, and the remaining part of the sentence represent 1,458 hours of community service as an alternative to imprisonment.

Eurostrip represented European striptease clubs and erotic theatres in Estonia and Latvia.

On December 17, 2009, Eurostrip dancers opened new erotic theatre in Athens, Kinky Opera, where over 30 female and male dancers from Estonia and Latvia have been employed by now.