Anastasia employs a convicted and registered sex offender as their tour manager.

[Chelseaboy]

His name is Stephen T. Sias.
His offence,and employer can be found on :
www.maine.gov/dps/Sbi/sor.html
and by searching the registry.
Where does imbra stand in this ?

[Chelseaboy]

Details of the convictions can be found on :
www2.miami-dadeclerk.com/cjis/CaseSearch.aspx

[myheart2ukraine]

His name is Stephen T. Sias.
His offence,and employer can be found on :
www.maine.gov/dps/Sbi/sor.html
and by searching the registry.
Where does imbra stand in this ?

RWD guys you have 2 treat all these huge mainly scammer wharehouse/ship them out/ship them in MOB sites have having sleazy employees

sack him 2day for him only 2 get straight back in2 work with another 1 of his sleazy friends MOB site

MH2U

[Gator]

Three charges, the most serious being sexual battery to a minor.   Very serious charge.  Convicted and sentenced in 1980.     31 years ago.  Now 58 years old.    Fellow convicts are brutal to child rapists.  It must have been hell for him.  I guess he has served his time and is considered a reformed man.  Even convicts have rights.

http://sor.informe.org/cgi-bin/sor/step3.pl?id=4615&search=&zip=&area=0&limiter=
 
How did you discover this?

[Chelseaboy]

Yes,but those rights shouldn't include him being allowed to meet foreign women as the Anastasia tour manager.
Apparently,as an employee of Anastasia,rather than being a member of the site,he can avoid Imbra regulations.
Therefore these women won't know he's a sex offender.
The original posting was made on forum.fiance.com yesterday,and that was where i discovered it.

[tfcrew]

Looks like some infraction of IMBRA in there somewhere. 

[Darth_Budda]

people that pray on children can never be forgiven...

And in my honest opinion Deserve the Death Penalty in many cases...

People like this flourish under societies that forgive people of crimes like this....


Another Questions?

If he is a felon, I don't think they let you leave the country....
So his charge must of been a misdemeanor. Right?

 
 

[Boethius]

If he has served his time, he can leave the country.  The issue then becomes if he can travel to another country.
 
I don't know about the EU, but I do know a convicted felon can't enter Canada, or Russia.  I would hazard a guess there are no controls on getting into Ukraine.  I know for a fact that a fair number of EU pedophiles, on Interpol's lists, have been found in Ukraine (working in orphanages and with agencies that deal with homeless kids ), but I believe Ukraine is now working with Interpol. 

[Faux Pas]

The guy wouldn't have any IMBRA issues unless he tried to bring a woman over on a K-1 or K-2 would he?

[Lazarus]

The guy wouldn't have any IMBRA issues unless he tried to bring a woman over on a K-1 or K-2 would he?

Or maybe a teenager? 
 
Laz
 
 

[Faux Pas]

Or maybe a teenager? 
 
Laz

If he's bringing a teenager, he issues are much deeper than IMBRA 

[LAman]

Yes,but those rights shouldn't include him being allowed to meet foreign women as the Anastasia tour manager.
Apparently,as an employee of Anastasia,rather than being a member of the site,he can avoid Imbra regulations.
Therefore these women won't know he's a sex offender.
The original posting was made on forum.fiance.com yesterday,and that was where i discovered it.

What about the free sites such as freepersonals, VK or mamba that everyone here recommends......isn't that avoiding IMBRA regulations???

[SANDRO43]

What about the free sites such as freepersonals, VK or mamba that everyone here recommends......isn't that avoiding IMBRA regulations???

IMBRA (International Marriage Broker Regulation Act) only applies to International Marriage Brokers (IMBs), i.e.:

an entity (whether or not U.S.-based) that charges fees for providing matchmaking services or social referrals between U.S. citizens/permanent residents and foreign nationals. The definition also exempts nonprofit religious or cultural matchmaking services, and dating services that do not match U.S. citizens/residents with aliens as their principal business and that charge comparable rates and offer comparable services to all clients, regardless of gender or country of citizenship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Marriage_Broker_Regulation_Act

Therefore, Freepersonals, VK and Mamba cannot be considered IMBs .

[Gator]

Therefore, Freepersonals, VK and Mamba cannot be considered IMBs .

I recall a discussion about the fact that Freepersonals receives advertisement revenue with the implication that it is a "for profit" company.  However, bigger question:    Is the State Department rigidly enforcing IMBRA?  Does anyone know of a petition delayed by IMBRA?

[SANDRO43]

I recall a discussion about the fact that Freepersonals receives advertisement revenue with the implication that it is a "for profit" company.

If profits are derived from sources other than "fees for providing matchmaking services or social referrals", I don't think they can be considered IMBs, either, as far as IMBRA is concerned .

[Boethius]

Is a background check part of the immigration process (regardless of how the parties met)?

In any event, it is bad optics, if nothing else, for a business devoted to putting couples together to hire a rapist/sexual predator.

[Jack]

I think it is also bad "optics" for a country to have a man running the country who was a rapist, but it is what it is.   
 
 
Gator, as of today IMBRA is not being enforced, IMBRA is not being asked about at interviews (according to some 30 plus couples I have asked about who went through the interview process).  No American company I know of is complying with IMBRA although several are hiding behind the IMBRA law as a way not to give out a ladies information. IMBRA has helped a few companies, BIG companies, to be able to help with their scamming.  
 
 
The American government is not in a position today to enforce IMBRA because it has failed to comply with a major part of the IMBRA law as written.  Today's economical condition of the government, in my opinion, means it could be some time, probably years, before IMBRA will be able to be enforced.
 
 

[Boethius]

I think it is also bad "optics" for a country to have a man running the country who was a rapist, but it is what it is.   

It is an allegation.  Unlike Sias, who was convicted of rape and is a registered sex offender.

Incidentally, I am no fan of Yanukovych.

[Jack]

 

It is an allegation. 

       
 
An allegation Boethius!       
 
Oh please, ......  you have the  ball's  nerves to say  "an allegation"?   
 
If I may be so bold to use one of your favorite phrases  Boethius   "you are wrong".   
 
 
One would have to be more blind than the late Ray Charles to not be able to see the obvious.           
 
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/07/yanukovych-ahead-ukraine-elections    Then there is his criminal record. Born in the gritty eastern town of Donetsk, Yanukovych served two terms in prison as a young man. He was convicted of robbery and sexual assault, and also served a term for manslaughter. His record was mysteriously expunged when he joined the Communist party in the late 1970s.       
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych   On December 15, 1967, at the age of 17, Yanukovych was sentenced to three years incarceration for participating in a robbery and moderate assault .The court did not show Yanukovych clemency, even though he was underage, a practice common, for young first-time offenders. At the court trial Yanukovych pleaded guilty and did not appeal his sentence         
 
 
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/yanukovich-the-gangster-tymoshenko-the-savior/  On Dec. 15, 1967, Yanukovych (then 17 years old) was sentenced to three years in prison for robbery and sexual assault. He was back in prison three years later, convicted of manslaughter. But, for reasons that remain unexplained, the Soviet courts expunged his criminal record in 1978, shortly before he joined the Communist Party.
But in 2006, Yanukovych was charged with falsifying the very documents used to expunge his earlier convictions. Two key documents used to overturn his conviction for rape and robbery had been forged. Moreover, the signature of the judge in his case was also forged.       
 
 
http://news.kievukraine.info/2009/10/child-molestation-rape-claims-mark.html   BYuT deputy Sergiy Sobolev, in a statement on the bloc's website, said accusations that Yanukovich and a gang raped and beat a woman in his home town of Enakieve in the 1970s had been brought to the attention of the prosecutors several years ago.

The rape accusation was originally made by Hryhory Omelchenko, the same parliamentarian who last week said three BYuT deputies were involved in the child molestation case, Sobolev said. Serhiy Lyovochkin, deputy head of Yanukovich's Regions party, dismissed the accusation.

During his youth, Yanukovich was imprisoned twice for theft and assault. His aides said the charges were struck from the record and no documents are available on the issue.

     
 
http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20051/26  Enlarged copies of Prime Minister Yanukovych’s police mug-shots were plastered on phone poles here in Khmelnytsky — the next day they were torn down. His list of arrests, convictions and two prison terms became public knowledge. They ranged from petty theft to rape.       
 
 
 
http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/long-articles/2006/2/1/no-legal-grounds-to-disqualify-yanukovych-from-election.html   Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has said that opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych cannot be disqualified from the parliament election race, even though his criminal convictions were quashed unlawfully.  Lutsenko produced documents in the studio, which, he said, show that the court ruling quashing Yanukovych's convictions had been forged. "Currently an expert examination has unequivocally established that the ruling by the court of appeals to the effect that Yanukovych had no criminal convictions and committed no crimes was forged.     
 
 
http://www.xoxol.org/putin/putin14.html   imagines that the Kremlin views Viktor Yanukovych's criminal history as undesirable. And so it is not so much that the Ukrainian voter rejects Viktor Yanukovych because of his known criminal record, but it is more that the Ukrainian voter senses that Moscow has selected Viktor Yanukovych to rule Ukraine because of criminal roots which are more profound than is being publicly disclosed.

http://1-news.net/ukraine-judge-refuses-to-free-ex-pm-from-custody-reuters/ During his Presidential Campaign, current Ukrainian Presidient Viktor Yanuckovich, accused his critic and former Prime Minister Julia Tymshenko's party members of being child molesters, to deflect away criticism of his own DOCUMENTED criminal past.
 
 
http://dalje.com/en-world/ukraine-sex-scandals-sully-presidential-campaign/278878  Yanukovich's past remains a sensitive issue that is played on by his foes. He was briefly jailed in his youth in the eastern city of Donetsk but the convictions have since been struck off the record by the regional court.
   
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/8597315/Yulia-Tymoshenko-v-Viktor-Yanukovych.html
Famous for:
• The false acquittal of his criminal convictions in which court documents, including the judge’s signature, were falsified.

[Boethius]

Do you know anything about the USSR, Jack?
 
People were arrested, and served time for offenses they did not commit all the time.   In fact, there were more innocent people in Soviet jails than there were actual criminals.
 
People also served time for offences they did not commit in order to infiltrate criminal organizations.  The fact Yanukovych was able to join the communist party, which was a privilege, not a right, after an arrest tells me that he was no ordinary criminal, that the charges against him were likely fabricated, and that he was a snitch, sent by the commies to infiltrate a particular criminal group.   The only way to do that in Soviet times (when criminals had their own slang, and, given they operated in a police state, were very wary of informants, even more so than the average citizen) was to actulaly serve time in prison.  Furthermore, if his arrest record had actually been expunged by the party, no one would know about it now.  It also would not be sitting in Ukraine, it would only be available in Moscow.
 
No one will ever know the truth. 

[Jack]

  Yes Boethius, I would say I do know a few things about the USSR. Probably more than 90% of all other Americans Boethius.  I have studied it's history extensively.  Not because I had to, but because I wanted to.  Makes a big difference in how one learns, the amount one learns, when they do it out of love, appreciation.  And one can never learn the history of Russia without knowing the proud history of the Land of Rus, the Rus men, Mother Russia,  ..... Ukraine.     
 
Boethius, Yanukovych pleaded guilty to the charge of rape and robbery.   But now all those charges, his plea of being guilty have somehow disappeared.     
 
Boethius you can live in your fantasy world. You and one other can believe that Columbus discovered America on October 13, 1492 while the rest of the world believes what he wrote in his own hands, in his own journal, October 12th,  unless your saying Ivan III  (he was ruler of Russia at the time of Columbus discovery in case you didn't know) had something to do with what Columbus wrote.       
 
You can also believe that Yanukovych pleaded guilty to something he didn't do Boethius, while the majority of people will rely on their own good common sense.
 
 

[Boethius]

  Yes Boethius, I would say I do know a few things about the USSR. Probably more than 90% of all other Americans Boethius.  I have studied it's history extensively.  Not because I had to, but because I wanted to.  Makes a big difference in how one learns, the amount one learns, when they do it out of love, appreciation.  And one can never learn the history of Russia without knowing the proud history of the Land of Rus, the Rus men, Mother Russia,  ..... Ukraine.     
 
Boethius, Yanukovych pleaded guilty to the charge of rape and robbery.   But now all those charges, his plea of being guilty have somehow disappeared.   
 
Boethius you can live in your fantasy world. You and one other can believe that Columbus discovered America on October 13, 1492 while the rest of the world believes what he wrote in his own hands, in his own journal, October 12th,  unless your saying Ivan III  (he was ruler of Russia at the time of Columbus discovery in case you didn't know) had something to do with what Columbus wrote.       
 
You can also believe that Yanukovych pleaded guilty to something he didn't do Boethius, while the majority of people will rely on their own good common sense.

If you have an issue with the Columbus stuff, take it up with the author I cited.  I noted where the information came from.

It is you who lives in a fantasy world, Jack.  NOBODY just "joined" the CPSU.  You had to be nominated.  You have to be vetted.  Your family background was checked.  You had to have the right "proletarian roots".  It was a long process. No common criminal would be allowed to join the CPSU.
 
Have you ever heard of Sinyavsky and Daniel?  Darlings of the West, academics wrote history books on their trial, and at the end, they both made impassioned pleas of forgiveness.  It turns out they were KGB plants, and their trial, and the evidence they gathered against dissidents after they were convicted, started a wave of repression in the 1960's.  That was not publicly released, but become known via a famous dissident, now living in Britain, who was given access to KGB archives when Yeltsin wanted to put the CPSU on trial.
 
Mykola Rudenko, another dissident, plead guilty to numerous charges of which he was completely innocent.
 
Your post indicates that you know zip about how the USSR operated.  And, you won't learn most of it in a history book. 

[Jack]

 
Yes Boethius, and all these people are wrong and you are right.  It's typical Boethius.
 
 
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/07/yanukovych-ahead-ukraine-elections    Then there is his criminal record. Born in the gritty eastern town of Donetsk, Yanukovych served two terms in prison as a young man. He was convicted of robbery and sexual assault, and also served a term for manslaughter. His record was mysteriously expunged when he joined the Communist party in the late 1970s.       
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych   On December 15, 1967, at the age of 17, Yanukovych was sentenced to three years incarceration for participating in a robbery and moderate assault .The court did not show Yanukovych clemency, even though he was underage, a practice common, for young first-time offenders. At the court trial Yanukovych pleaded guilty and did not appeal his sentence         
 
 
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/yanukovich-the-gangster-tymoshenko-the-savior/  On Dec. 15, 1967, Yanukovych (then 17 years old) was sentenced to three years in prison for robbery and sexual assault. He was back in prison three years later, convicted of manslaughter. But, for reasons that remain unexplained, the Soviet courts expunged his criminal record in 1978, shortly before he joined the Communist Party.
But in 2006, Yanukovych was charged with falsifying the very documents used to expunge his earlier convictions. Two key documents used to overturn his conviction for rape and robbery had been forged. Moreover, the signature of the judge in his case was also forged.       
 
 
http://news.kievukraine.info/2009/10/child-molestation-rape-claims-mark.html   BYuT deputy Sergiy Sobolev, in a statement on the bloc's website, said accusations that Yanukovich and a gang raped and beat a woman in his home town of Enakieve in the 1970s had been brought to the attention of the prosecutors several years ago.

The rape accusation was originally made by Hryhory Omelchenko, the same parliamentarian who last week said three BYuT deputies were involved in the child molestation case, Sobolev said. Serhiy Lyovochkin, deputy head of Yanukovich's Regions party, dismissed the accusation.

During his youth, Yanukovich was imprisoned twice for theft and assault. His aides said the charges were struck from the record and no documents are available on the issue.

     
 
http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20051/26  Enlarged copies of Prime Minister Yanukovych’s police mug-shots were plastered on phone poles here in Khmelnytsky — the next day they were torn down. His list of arrests, convictions and two prison terms became public knowledge. They ranged from petty theft to rape.       
 
 
 
http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/long-articles/2006/2/1/no-legal-grounds-to-disqualify-yanukovych-from-election.html   Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has said that opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych cannot be disqualified from the parliament election race, even though his criminal convictions were quashed unlawfully.  Lutsenko produced documents in the studio, which, he said, show that the court ruling quashing Yanukovych's convictions had been forged. "Currently an expert examination has unequivocally established that the ruling by the court of appeals to the effect that Yanukovych had no criminal convictions and committed no crimes was forged.     

 
http://www.xoxol.org/putin/putin14.html   imagines that the Kremlin views Viktor Yanukovych's criminal history as undesirable. And so it is not so much that the Ukrainian voter rejects Viktor Yanukovych because of his known criminal record, but it is more that the Ukrainian voter senses that Moscow has selected Viktor Yanukovych to rule Ukraine because of criminal roots which are more profound than is being publicly disclosed.

http://1-news.net/ukraine-judge-refuses-to-free-ex-pm-from-custody-reuters/ During his Presidential Campaign, current Ukrainian Presidient Viktor Yanuckovich, accused his critic and former Prime Minister Julia Tymshenko's party members of being child molesters, to deflect away criticism of his own DOCUMENTED criminal past.
 
 
http://dalje.com/en-world/ukraine-sex-scandals-sully-presidential-campaign/278878  Yanukovich's past remains a sensitive issue that is played on by his foes. He was briefly jailed in his youth in the eastern city of Donetsk but the convictions have since been struck off the record by the regional court.
   
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/8597315/Yulia-Tymoshenko-v-Viktor-Yanukovych.html
Famous for:
• The false acquittal of his criminal convictions in which court documents, including the judge’s signature, were falsified.

[Boethius]

Nothing you have posted contradicts what I posted. 
 
 
Larussophobe?   You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel there, Jack.  But, that doesn't really surprise me.

[Jack]

Boethius, nothing more for me to say.  I think what has been reported and posted do 100% contradict what you have posted and say. The members will be able to reach their own conclusions.
 
And as usual, I will give you the last word.