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At least thirteen members of a network responsible for the sexual exploitation of more than 400 women in Finland and the Scandinavian countries have been arrested in a
At least thirteen members of a network responsible for the sexual exploitation of more than 400 women in Finland and the Scandinavian countries have been arrested in a European operation, Europol and Eurojust reported on Tuesday, which estimated the criminal organization worth 3.3 million euros.
The operation, which involved the Czech, Finnish and Hungarian authorities, also managed to identify more than ninety victims of sexual exploitationand thirteen alleged traffickers arrested are suspected of “recruiting victims, mostly Czechs, and taking them to Finland and other Scandinavian countries.
Czech members of the criminal network, believed to have earned at least €3.3 million, acted as coordinators and offered services to victims on websites, although the investigation operational still remains open, as a total of more than four hundred victims Czech, Hungarian and Romanian citizenship.
“Criminals could order victims in advance, while rotation systems, also known as “sex toursor “carousels”, allowed offering victims of exploitation in different places,” he said. Europolwhich, together with Eurojust, coordinated the operation from its headquarters in The Hague.
In addition to apprehending suspects and identifying victims, authorities ransacked ten homes, seized 200,000 euros in cash, four luxury cars, three apartments, 40 mobile phones, four laptops and a shotgun filled with bullets, and froze eight. bank accounts.
Those online known as “telecom operators” were instructed to advertise the victims on “web pages services for adultsand manage their online profile, but they also had to monitor the victims they gave “degrading treatment” and manage meetings and types sexual services it would be provided.
In most cases they were presented as “Czechs”, regardless of their true nationality, deprived of their income, exploited under “extreme coercion”, and in cases where they were allowed to return home, criminals they took some of their savings and extorted them using threats and violence.
The network was “well organized and could work remotely from different locations” as they were “well versed in the sex market” in Finland and other Scandinavian countries, and sexual exploitation to which they subjected the victims did not stop during the pandemic COVID-19rather “gained meaning” on the Internet.
“The perpetrators advised and encouraged the victims to use ‘partnership invitations’ to circumvent the strict entry rules imposed by some countries. In certain cases, the alleged boyfriend invited several women and received free sexual services in return, ”explains Europol.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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