Colombian authorities have arrested Mexican Cristobal Paulino Fernandez Viamonte in Medellin, who is one of the most wanted men in his country for human trafficking. sexual exploitationLocal police reported this on Wednesday.

Fernandez was arrested while leaving to do “his daily exercise” at a shopping mall in Medellin. It is required by Mexico for crimes of aggravated human trafficking and aggravated sexual exploitation.Details in the police report.

Authorities had been monitoring him for more than 90 days because, according to police, was dedicated to the recruitment of women from Medellin, Bogota and the department of Valle del Cauca.many of them come from “poor resources or are in vulnerable situations” to deceive and sexually exploit them.

“It also became known that members of the organization were given economic incentive for recruiting women and later convince them to travel as escorts and waitresses to Cancun and Merida in the Yucatan state of Mexico,” he added.

When they arrived in this North American country, They took them to shelters. in which they took all their documents and then “forced them to sign a contract” in which “they imposed a debt that was impossible to pay with expenses that had not been agreed upon since their departure from Colombia, in order to keep them in slavery.”

“Seeing these acts of shame and humiliation towards them, They were looking for a way to escape to the Mexican consulate or authorities. to obtain repatriation procedures and thus escape from the criminal networks of Cristobal Paulino Fernandez Viamonte,” the police clarified.

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The detainee, according to the investigation, I lived in Medellin for more than four years. and he posed as a “showy businessman” living in a luxurious country house.

Fernandez was kept in the custody of prosecutors pending his extradition to Mexico. (EFE)