Three women have been released and seven people have been arrested in a Police operation in which a gang dedicated to the sexual exploitation of women who were forced to work as prostitutes to settle their debt for the trip from Malaga was dismantled in Malaga. his country.
The investigation began in June 2022 based on information that pointed to the existence of an organized group dedicated to recruiting foreign women in vulnerable situations to bring them to Spain and exploit them labor and sexually through false promises of work, it has reported. This Friday the Police in a statement.
The agents have located three victims, who were supposedly deceived in their country of origin and contracted a debt with the organization for the payment of the trip to Spain that they had to settle by practicing prostitution.
After several investigations, the investigators found how the main person responsible worked as a pimp, controlled the women to take advantage of them once they arrived in Spain and used deception to exclusively obtain economic benefit.
In addition, it was common practice to provide women with small amounts of various drugs, both for their own consumption and to offer them to clients.
During the investigations there was a moment when the organization spread and some of its members returned to their countries of origin and others to other towns in Spain, where they continued to carry out the same criminal activity.
In a search at the home controlled and exploited by the ringleader, 2,080 euros, various narcotic substances such as hashish, marijuana and cocaine, accounting documentation of sexual exploitation services and electronic devices have been seized.
