Telangana Director General of Police M. Mahender Reddy said they will not investigate the international prostitution racket busted in United States, allegedly run by Telugu businessman and his wife in Chicago. “As the incident was reported in the US, we are not going to investigate the case here,” he said. The accused couple were identified as Kishan Modugumudi alias Sreeraj Chennuppati and his wife Chandra Kala Purnima Modugumudi alias Vebha. The couple were reportedly trafficking Telugu and Kannada actresses to United States and engage them in commercial sex with their Indian community clients. According to a criminal complaint filed in the US Illinois Eastern Court, the couple imported five victims, all female Indian actresses to the United States for the purpose of prostitution. They purchased airline tickets and hotel room for the five victims, whom the court identified as victims A,B,C,D, and E, harboured them either at their residence in Chicago, Illinois, or at hotel rooms across the country and would take them to various Telugu and other Indian conferences held in the US. Further, they would identify the potential customers who would pay them in order to engage the actresses in commercial sex act. The US investigating agencies arrested the couple in the last week of April and seized several evidences, including diaries, electronic gadgets and other documents from their possession who were found to be overstaying in the US.

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