Overview
- National Police arrested a Spanish man and a woman of South American origin on suspicion of offenses linked to prostitution and aiding irregular immigration in Playa de Palma.
- Group I of UCRIF, the police unit that targets immigration networks and document fraud, led the inquiry after spotting a lifestyle that did not match the pair’s declared incomes.
- Detectives say the couple rented three chalets, housed people who sold sex in two of them, and lived in the third.
- Police report the woman recruited people in her home country, the arrivals were registered at the addresses through empadronamiento, a local residency roll, and then placed in the chalets.
- Victims were charged €350 to €400 per week for a shared double room, with police estimating €19,600 to €22,400 in rental takings plus revenue from bar consumptions, and at least 20 women and one man have been identified as victims as the case remains open.