In two operations against prostitution and drug trafficking networks, the National Police has released twelve women victims of sexual exploitation, including a minor, and has arrested sixteen people for forcing them to practice it in the capital Madrid and in the Corredor del Henares .
One of the dismantled networks captured its victims in nightclubs in the city or through social networks, and the other transferred women from South America to Spain, the Madrid Police Headquarters reported this Wednesday, according to Efe.
The investigation into the first network began in November of last year when the agents received information about a minor who was being held at an address in the capital.
In parallel, some calls received on the telephone reporting situations of trafficking in human beings alerted to the presence of up to six women in said property, all of them forced to practice prostitution in precarious conditions 24 hours a day and monitored by police. several cameras distributed throughout the rooms of the house.
The victims of this network were recruited in nightclubs in Madrid through the promise of a job as image personnel at private parties, although they also received this offer through social networks.
This network took advantage of the irregular situation in which some of the women resided in Spain.
In addition to forcing them to practice prostitution, they forced them to participate in drug trafficking, either by consuming them in the company of their clients or by carrying them to the agreed meeting point.
In the operation that dismantled this organization, which consisted of three searches of buildings in the capital carried out at the end of last March, eight women were released and eight other people were arrested accused of crimes related to prostitution, corruption of minors, against public health and document forgery.
Weeks later, a police device was also organized to dismantle a second network that, in his case, operated in the Corredor del Henares area.
Their crimes went beyond sexual exploitation and drug trafficking, since they had created a human trafficking network with which they captured their victims in South American countries with false promises of employment.
Once in Spain, they were told that they had contracted a debt of more than 4,000 euros for their trip, which they had to repay by performing sexual services and drug trafficking.
In this operation, carried out in four homes, four victims were released and eight people were arrested.
