Spain South American American busts for sex-DW-23/02/2025

The South Police -estul Alicante, Spain, announced on Sunday the arrest of 48 people, as well as saving 48 women, mostly from Colombia and Venezuela, during a series of raids on eight properties, including three brothels.

“The victims, mainly of South -American origin, were lured to Spain with fake job offers,” the police said.

It is said that Ringleaders, a Spanish man and two Colombian women, have abducted more than 1,000 women in the last year. The women arrived in Spain to work in the cleaning and beauty sectors, but instead “they were taken to clubs where they were sexually exploited,” the police said.

Finally, they lived as prostitutes on a network of disguised spaces to look like pensions or pensions.

Beyond being “forced to work all hours”, the police say that women were kept under permanent video surveillance and that they were not left to be out for more than two hours every day.

Spanish police confiscate weapons, money, properties in the bust

The weekend raids took place largely in Alicante and Murcia.

The police say it has closed three striptease clubs and confiscated 17 properties, as well as the confiscation of weapons, € 150,000 (157,000 USD) in cash and blocking bank accounts containing EUR 938,000.

A number of six of those arrested remain in detention pre-process, the others were released on bail. The administrators of property and “taxi drivers” who closed the women between the sites were among the arrested.

The police say that the discovery of the transnational traffic network was triggered by an anonymous type at a dedicated police line.

The police say he received 8,051 citizens’ complaints last year, adding that about 1,025 of them provided useful operational information.