Six arrests during the operation of the Office for Combating Organized Crime. The activities of a criminal organization engaged in the trade in people and pimination of women from the countries of Latin America and Eastern Europe in Attica and Corinth have been suppressed.
During the operation conducted on Wednesday on March 12, a division for the fight against trading of people and goods, Arrested Three members of the organization, including a leader, and three other persons. A criminal case has been instituted against them under articles related to Criminal organization, trading of people, pimulation, falsification of documents, violation of the immigration code regarding employers' duties and ownership of travel documents, as well as weapons legislation.
23,610 euros, 2 cars and digital evidence were seized. The investigation showed that The criminal organization has operated at least from December 2022. Members of the organization to achieve their goal were engaged in the recruitment, transportation and promoting of foreigners in our country in a vulnerable position, with the aim of sexual exploitation in four brothels in Attica and two in Corinthas well as their involvement in prostitution in order to obtain illegal financial benefits. It is established that:
- The leading member of the organization supervised brothels, while distant from their activities, entrusting it to another member of the group,
- The second member of the organization was responsible for the overall work, management and coverage of the maintenance of public houses and apartments, a set of women, the preparation of the program, receiving a significant part of the income,
- The third member of the organization took part in the management and operation of brothels located in the Corinth Prefecture.
The contribution of the second was crucial for the activities of the organization: he He seemed to be potential victims under the pseudonym, promising legal work in Greece, and then took over the expenses for flights, creating a debt bond that had to be repaid.
Victims that originally lived in various apartments in Califery, Neos Cosmos and Exarchysent to brothels where they were sold to pay off the above debt.
To give the “business” of visibility, the members of the criminal organization began to make fake certificates of professional activityissued to individuals for a fee, as well as fake medical books, while periodically registering virtual clinical examinations with fake signatures and seals of a dermatologist-venereologist of the Main Directorate of Health. In the course of investigations Discovered and seized:
- A total of 23,610 euros;
- 2 cars;
- digital evidence (mobile phones, computers, cameras and recording devices);
- numerous fake certificates of professional activities issued for remuneration;
- 5 fake individual medical books;
- Numerous documents – manuscript notes on the work of brothels and names of foreigners, tax documents, photos of women, identity certificates, accounts, etc.
As part of the operation, together with the specialized NGOs “Our Salvation” and “A21” Help and protection for thirteen women. The detainees were delivered to the competent prosecutor and transferred to the investigator.
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