FOUR members of a trafficking gang have been found guilty of selling women for prostitution and slavery.
Family members sobbed in the public gallery as a jury returned their verdicts following a seven week trial.
Vojtech Gombar, 61, Anil Wagle, 37, Jana Sandorova, 28, and Ratislav Adam, 31, denied trafficking women into Scotland from Slovakia.
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But a jury at the High Court in Glasgow today returned a guilty verdict for crimes carried out between November 2011 and February 2017.
Over several weeks the court heard how young women and teenage girls - some who were pregnant - were coerced into travelling to the UK with the promise of better lives.
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In one case, the court heard how a young woman was sold for £10,000 outside Primark on Argyle Street.
The pregnant victim was then held in a Govanhill flat for around a month before escaping by jumping from a window.
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Other girls spoke of being sold to Pakistani men for sham marriages to try to obtain visas for their 'husbands'.
Some eight women were named as victims of the gang - but police believe there may be many more.
Ringleader Gombar was found guilty of 13 charges involving eight women while a charge involving a ninth woman was found not proven.
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Adam, who shouted out in court as he was handcuffed, was convicted of seven charges involving three victims.
His wife, Sandorova, was convicted of six charges involving two victims.
And Wagle was found guilty of four charges involving one of the women.
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As the four were handcuffed to be led to the cells, a female relative called out and began sobbing before she was taken out of the court.
Lord Beckett remanded Gombar, Wagle, Sandorova and Adam in custody until sentencing next month.
They will appear at the High Court in Edinburgh on November 8.
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