Article 128/b
Trafficking of Minors
(Amended by law no. 9188, dated 12.02.2004, article 3; Added by law no. 9859, dated 21.01.2008, article 3; Wording in paragraph I are changed by law no.144, dated 02.05.2013, article 31; The part that provides Fine as main punishment in addition to imprisonment is abrogated by law no.144, dated 02.05.2013, article 48)
Recruitment, sale, transport, transfer, hiding or reception of minors with the purpose of exploitation for prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor of service, slavery or forms similar to slavery, putting in use or transplanting organs, as well as other forms of exploitation, shall be punishable by ten to twenty years of imprisonment.
Organization, management and financing of the trafficking of minors is punished with imprisonment of from ten to twenty years.
When this crime is committed in collaboration or more than once, or is accompanied with the maltreatment and forcing of the victim through physical or psychological violence to
commit various actions, or bring serious consequences to health, it is punished with imprisonment of no less than fifteen years.
When the offence as a consequence has brought about the death of the victim it is punished with imprisonment of no less than twenty years or with life imprisonment.
When the criminal offence is committed through the utilization of a state function or public service, the punishment of imprisonment is increased by one fourth of the punishment given.
