Report says North Korean workers are being brokered into Russia under forced-labour conditions
The latest report says a Russian broker network is using student visas to bring North Korean workers into Russia and place them in forced-labour conditions. It alleges the arrangement is designed to bypass labour law and United Nations sanctions, while also helping fund Pyongyang's ballistic missile programme. The investigation names Moscow-based businessman Vladimir Sokolov and his labour-brokering platform KNDR.su as central to the network.According to the report, Sokolov's operations director, Ruslan Zhukov, told investigators posing as prospective employers that North Korean workers were enrolled in colleges they did not attend in order to avoid labour law. The report says the... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 29 Oct 2026 09:36 LONDON
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