A total of four people, three of them in Bilbao and one in Valenciahave been arrested for sexually exploit a woman y irregularly registering club workers of appointments in the capital of Biscay.
As reported by the Ministry of the Interior, the researches They were initiated as a result of the letter received at the Bilbao Immigration and Borders Brigade from a woman who reported having been a victim of sexual exploitation.
Given the seriousness of the events, the researchers from UCRIF Group I of Bilbao They located the complainant and took her statement. In her story, she explained that she had come attracted by a false job promise in Spain as a cleaner or waitress for a man who had also promised to help her register and who, taking into account her precarious economic situation, had accepted.
Likewise, she said that at first she had arrived in Valencia from a flight from Italy and that this man was waiting for her at the airport, accompanied by another man she didn’t know at all, to take her to an apartment in the city where she They forced her to stay without being able to leave from him at any time for ten days, following which she was moved to a second floor in Bilbao.
According to her story, in the accommodation in the capital of Biscay she was also deprived of her liberty and forced to remain for a week and a half, finding herself in this case under the surveillance of two different men who assumed control of her. During the confinement, one of them forced her to have sexual relations saying that “I had to try how it worked.”
After her confinement on this second floor, her captor transferred her once more to a place in Bilbao where regarding ten more girls were carrying out the activity. prostitution under the supervision of a woman who assumed the role of ‘madame’. There, the man told him that he had incurred a debt of 2,000 euros for the purchase of the plane tickets and for the expenses derived from accommodation and transfers, assuming at that moment that he had to return the money by prostituting himself.
Likewise, following a few days being a prostitute, she was once more transferred by her recruiter to a place in Cantabria where she remained for 15 more days until she might no longer bear the situation and decided to report what happened to the police.
Criminal organization
Taking into account the plausibility of the story and the vulnerability that the woman presented, the agents granted her the status of protected witness. Furthermore, following the appropriate investigations, they confirmed the version given by the victim and found out that The criminal organization was made up of five members: two Albanians, among whom was her recruiter, two Biscayans, in charge of controlling the girl in the Bilbao apartment, and a woman of Paraguayan nationality who acted as ‘madame’ in the premises in the capital of Biscay.
Furthermore, they discovered that the latter registered the women who worked for the organization at their home in Bilbao, all of whom were in an irregular situation in Spain, which they took advantage of to achieve greater control over them due to their special situation of vulnerability.
For all this and following gathering sufficient evidence, investigators from the Bilbao Immigration and Borders Brigade proceeded to arrest the two in charge of controlling the young women in the Bilbao apartment and, simultaneously, members of the Bilbao Immigration and Borders Brigade. Valencia carried out the arrest of the recruiter in said capital.
Likewise, in subsequent days, the person in charge of the prostitution establishment was arrested in Bilbao, and all of them were placed at the disposal of the Investigative Court investigating the case. It should be noted that the necessary investigations continue to be carried out to locate and protect more possible victims.