The National Police have dismantled a felony group of 5 folks in Barcelona, which sexually exploited girls in Qatar, the Netherlands and Australia. The victims have been recruited by means of social networks the place job provides have been revealed with very useful circumstances within the subject of luxurious prostitution that in the end turned out to be, “to an amazing extent”, false.
The police investigation started because of a criticism obtained. Thus, after quite a few inquiries, the brokers have been in a position to confirm the existence of a felony group, based mostly within the province of Barcelona and in Amsterdam (Netherlands), which was devoted to capturing girls and transferring them to locations equivalent to Doha (Qatar), Amsterdam, Australia, or Spanish cities like Ibiza, to supply their sexual providers.
Victims touring exterior of Spain have been instructed to cross the borders pretending to be vacationers, and have been even enrolled in coaching programs in order that they may entry with a scholar visa. Previously, they gave the group a photographic album in order that they may publish their photos on completely different net pages devoted to the provide of sexual providers.
During the recruitment, the felony community promised the ladies very advantageous financial and private circumstances that in the end didn’t correspond to these provided. Thus, they have been subjected to strict bodily management, they have been compelled to be obtainable 24 hours a day and so they have been managed by means of video surveillance cameras in brothels, even being financially sanctioned if mentioned cameras have been disconnected.
Sexual assaults and robberies
In the Qatari metropolis of Doha, the victims have been housed in vacationer residences reserved by the group and obtained solely 50% of the agreed cash. Several of them have been sexually assaulted and robbed by some shoppers, leaving them fully helpless within the nation that they managed to depart because of the assistance of associates or family.
On the opposite hand, the ladies despatched to Amsterdam have been managed by a member of the group situated in that metropolis, who was accountable for choosing them up on the airport, taking them to the brothel the place they’d to supply sexual providers, periodically amassing the profit obtained and even threaten them in the event that they take into account leaving the home.
The police operation has ended with the entry and search of two houses within the province of Barcelona the place considerable documentation associated to the crimes investigated has been seized, accounting books for the providers offered by the victims, fraudulent documentation utilized by members of the group, phone books, numerous laptop gear and 85 grams of cannabis.