Overview
- Officers carried out the operation in early February, raiding a chalet used as a brothel and seizing about €10,000, drugs and electronic evidence.
- Investigators report the women were confined to a basement under constant surveillance, barred from refusing clients and forced to hand over half their earnings.
- The group allegedly supplied cocaine and sexual enhancers to clients and to the women to foster dependency and inflate debts.
- Police say at least four shell companies masked the illicit profits, and those arrested include five women and two men, all Spanish nationals.
- In a related but separate Valladolid case, a trafficking trial was suspended after the alleged leader did not appear, triggering an international search order.