 Alicante and Valencia Police have dismantled a human trafficking organisation forced women into prostitution as well as forging credit cards and documents. 22 people were arrested, 20 of them Rumanians as well as two Spaniards.
One of the members of the organisation was killed last December in Valeca do Minho, Portugal, Police said and this was crucial in the dismantling of the gang.
Seen houses were searched in the Valencian community, and police confiscated a large number of documents and material that was used for making forgeries. They also confiscated identity cards, passports, Spanish driving licenses, credit cards, as well as computers, scanners, printers, a pistol and a car.
Police also found two secret factories in Valencia that were used to forge credit cards, identity cards and driving licenses.
The investigation started in 2003 when a Rumanian minor was arrested for prostitution in Alicante. She said that she had been forced into prostitution by the gang. She also led police to believe that there many other girls in a similar situation.
The gang took young girls from Romania on the pretence that they were to work in Spain as nannies or as maids in houses and hotels. Once here they were given false papers and told that they could not return home. They were forced into prostitution in order to pay for the false papers. |
