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AM Costa Rica, Friday May 18, 2007
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Mother-daughter team face questions in Japanese job offers
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Investigators detained a mother and daughter Thursday and said they were soliciting Costa Rican women to go to Japan to be prostitutes.
The women had placed an ad in the Spanish-language daily La Nación seeking tall, slender women with long hair to be hostesses in a restaurant in Japan with a $3,000 to $4,000 monthly salary, housing and tips.
Agents with the Judicial Investigating Organization said they became aware of the business in October when a Costa Rican woman was returned by immigration in Japan. She had been recruited here.
The detained women were identified as Xinia Calvo Chávez, 54, and her daughter, Melissa Calvo Calvo, 24. Agents also are seeking to question another daughter, Gabriela Calvo Calvo, who is in Japan.
Agents do not know if any women actually managed to get into the Japanese workforce. They said they know that the restaurant cited by the women does not exist.
Six women at least had replied to the ad. Four decided not to go to Japan. Two were detained there by Japanese immigration, which assisted in the case, said agents.
The pair here were detained Thursday in Gravilias de Desamparados for investigation of human trafficking, said agents. The women also used a location in Sabana Oeste where they would interview respondents to the ads, agents said. The locations were decorated with Japanese scenes and photos of Latin women in Japan.
At the locations agents confiscated photos, resumes, a computer and other documentation.
The women were freed on their personal recognizance later Thursday.
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