An 18-year-old Malaysian student has reportedly
been gang-raped by several Russian men, including an
intelligence officer for the Moscow Police.
British tabloid The Sun, which first carried the
story last Thursday, reported that the girl had attended a
party at the prestigious Bellerbys College in Greenwich, South
London, where she is studying.
Quoting sources, the report claimed the girl was drugged and
filmed while seven Russian men assaulted her. One of the men has
been identified as intelligence officer Oleg Vladimirvich Ivanov,
23, who has been charged with the offence.
The incident was said to have happened early two Sundays
ago during the party attended by English language students of
the college. The report also stated that police confiscated
iPhones, which contained alarming footage of the victim being
gang-raped.
Ivanov and three others identified as Gregory
Andreev Melnikov, 22, Norayr Davtyan, 25, and
Arnen Simonay, 26, were charged at the Woolwich Magistrates’
Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.
All four claimed trial and have been remanded.
They will appear at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday.
Two other suspects were allowed bail while another was released
without charges.
The tabloid report stated that the men claimed to be students,
but reliable sources were quoted as saying that Ivanov, who had
only been in Britain for a week before the alleged gang-rape,
worked in the Intelligence Section of the Moscow Police.
A friend realised something was amiss after the victim staggered
into her room.
“She is distraught. She is very young and it is believed she was
given a drug before being defiled,” the report quoted a source as
saying.
When contacted by Malaysian newspaper The Star,
two students of the college were reserved in their comments.
“What we know so far is what everyone has read in the newspaper
(The Sun). We refuse to talk about the case as we are not
allowed to. Please contact our college officials if you want a
comment,” said one of them.
The college officials could not be reached for comment.
-- Yahoo! News