agents National Police 12 women were evacuated in two operations against two criminal organizations. sexual abuse and for drug trafficking in the city Madrid, Madrid High Police Headquarters reported in a statement.
16 people who forced these women to do sports were arrested. prostitution in unstable conditions, permanently and controlled by video surveillance.
agents made registered at four addresses in the capital and in three buildings in Corredor del Henares, where they intervened a wide variety of narcotics, drugs, distribution materials, two vehicles and approximately 30,000 Euros in cash.
The investigation into the Madrid-based organization began in November last year when agents learned that a minor was being held in a home in the capital.
At the same time, information received by telephone to report trafficking situations could prove that up to six women resided on this property.
All of them were forced into prostitution in precarious conditions 24 hours a day, with their entrances and exits under constant control and monitored by cameras distributed in different rooms of the building.
Subsequent efforts revealed that these women were recruited in nightclubs in the capitalwith the promise of getting a job as a model at private parties or through social networks.
Members of the criminal organization planned their services to their victims under a strict distribution of duties, to mark prices and hours with customers. Likewise, they were presenting these women on their sexually explicit web pages.
This criminal organization took advantage of the vulnerable situation of these women, some of whom were in an irregular situation. Spain.
In addition to forcing his victims into prostitution, forced them to participate in drug traffickingeither to consume them at home accompanied by their clients or to go out at home carrying these drugs.
Eight victims released in three recordings
After confirming these facts, Investigators devised an operation to liquidate the criminal organization in question, which resulted in three searches carried out in different parts of the capital on 24 March.
Among those arrested were two leaders of this network. – who went to prison – that it was then possible to prove that they had a high standard of living by justifying their income through a dream online clothing trading company. They also owned a large-capacity vehicle that they used to take women to appointments they arranged and to transport drugs.
In the aforementioned records, it was stated that this tool was found, intervened, various narcotic substances, drugs and sexual enhancers, as well as other effects. An investigation is ongoing to identify other possible victims of these criminal acts.
Captured in South America
A second criminal group operating in Corredor del Henares was liquidated weeks later. Criminal practices in this case went beyond sexual exploitation and drug trafficking. they created a human trafficking network where they recruited their victims in South American countries. present them fake job offers and transferred them to Spain, They took advantage of their vulnerability to sexually abuse them in three buildings in the Community of Madrid.
The members of the organization, who have agreed to close these transfers with other people in the countries of origin of their victims, take all steps to facilitate the work of women, such as obtaining air tickets and passports, hotel reservations, travel bags and cash transfers. to come to Spain.
When they arrived on national territory, they were told they had contracted a disease. Debit more than 4,000 Euros for your trip forced them to perform sexual services and to consume and trade drugs under the same conditions as the other organization.
The police investigation resulted in searches of several homes, including three in Corredor del Henares and one in Madrid. release four victims and arrest eight who went to court as suspected of crimes related to human trafficking, membership of a criminal organization, prostitution, against the rights of foreign nationals and public health. In addition, the agents seized various amounts of narcotic substances and tools for its preparation, two vehicles and 25,000 euros in cash, among other items.
The National Police emphasizes that the most effective way to help victims of trafficking crime is to bring the situation to the attention of the authorities, emphasizing that anyone who knows or has been exposed to a situation with these characteristics should report the situation by phone. By phone 900 10 50 90 or by e-mail [email protected], as well as the usual forms of contact with the National Police: emergency telephone 091 or any police station.