Overview
- The Guardia Civil's judicial police in Cangas placed a 37-year-old woman from Cambados and a 37-year-old man from Bueu under formal investigation, with the action reported on Monday and the probe now in the hands of the local court.
- Investigators say several women were forced to be available to clients around the clock and were only allowed to leave flats with express permission from the suspects.
- The inquiry found women were rotated between multiple flats and obliged to hand over half of their earnings, a pattern officials describe as economic and labor coercion.
- Police say the operation also involved drugs and commercial tactics: victims were pushed to use or simulate using alcohol and narcotics to boost client spending, and were supplied pills such as viagra for sale.
- Under Spanish law organizing or profiting from another's prostitution is a crime, so the court referral starts the judicial phase that could lead to formal charges and wider scrutiny of similar exploitation methods in the region.