Overview
- A joint operation by Policía Nacional and the Agencia Tributaria’s Vigilancia Aduanera freed 26 women, detained 16 suspects, closed 11 brothels and placed network leaders in provisional detention.
- Investigators say the group recruited women from China and Latin America with fake job offers as masseuses or stylists, supplied false identity papers and rotated and surveilled victims to force continuous prostitution.
- Searches recovered about €35,000 in cash, prohibited weapons, drugs, 24 mobile phones, two false passports and documentary evidence that led judges to embargo five properties, two vehicles and eight bank accounts.
- The raid updates a wider enforcement campaign that last year rescued 1,869 trafficking victims nationally, arrested 1,056 people and dismantled 112 criminal groups while Andalusia alone saw 318 victims freed.
- Prosecutions and financial probes are ongoing, NGOs are helping victims with protection and support, and police say continued inspections of workplaces and prostitution venues aim to prevent similar networks from reconstituting.