The National Police has dismantled a criminal organization dedicated to human trafficking for sexual exploitation in the provinces of Barcelona and Lleida, has released nine women victims of this plot and has arrested three men.
As reported this Monday by the National Police, the criminal group recruited women in their countries of origin and, after facilitating their entry into Spain, they were sexually exploited until they covered the expenses incurred with the criminals – travel, accommodation, documentation.
The investigation began following a complaint filed through the Service for Attention to Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings, in which a person claimed to know women who had been recruited, transferred and housed in a hostess club and in an apartment. -brothel in a town in Lleida to be sexually exploited.
After the police investigations, the agents carried out two entries and searches in the hostess club and in the apartment, where they found the women. The victims told the National Police that they were subjected to strict control by the gang and that they were forced to perform sexual services even when they were sick.
The investigators confirmed that the criminal group took advantage of the vulnerability of these women and their situation of administrative irregularity in Spain, even being stripped of their passports.
In all cases, the criminal gang followed the same pattern: they captured the women in their countries of origin, upon their arrival at the airport they were picked up by members of the plot and, later, they were taken to the hostess club or to the apartment. -brothel.
During the police searches, the agents also seized various narcotic substances and 23,550 euros in cash. The three detainees are accused of the crimes of trafficking in human beings for the purposes of sexual exploitation, a crime related to prostitution, a crime against the rights of foreign citizens, a crime against public health, a crime against privacy and self-image, and belonging to criminal organization.
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