Two 19-year-olds from Nanaimo were arrested and charged in Saskatchewan for alleged human trafficking. (File photo/NanaimoNewsNOW)

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

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Two Nanaimo men charged with human trafficking in Saskatchewan

Jan 30, 2020 | 7:23 AM

NANAIMO — Two Nanaimo men were arrested and charged in Saskatchewan for allegedly trafficking two young women.

RCMP in Swift Current, Sask. said twins Seyed Kourosh Miralinaghi and Seyed Kamran Miralinaghi, both 19 from Nanaimo, were arrested on Jan. 28.

They were in a three-car convoy spotted driving more than 150 kilometers per hour on the Trans-Canada Hwy. towards Swift Current.

Police intercepted the vehicles and were quickly suspicious of the relationship between the four people in the various cars.

Two women without ID’s were found in the back seat of the cars with “indicators of human trafficking-related activity,” police said.

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The Miralinaghi twins were charged along with Shawn Alexander Kelly and Shermineh Sheri Ziaee, both from Victoria.

Each face five counts of human trafficking-related charges.

This is not the first time Seyed Kourosh Miralinghi will be brought before the courts for this issue.

He’s slated to appear in a Nanaimo courtroom in coming weeks for advertising sexual services, procuring and benefitting from sexual services from a person under 18.

The twins are scheduled to make court appearances in Swift Current on Friday, Jan. 31.

— with files from Aaron Schulze

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