According to this news from Spain, 17 people were arrested in Spain for using voodoo and violence to force young women into prostitution. The women were mandated to pay Eur 50,000 to the traffickers.
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17 arrests in Spain in voodoo prostitution swoop
Seventeen people have been arrested across the country in connection with a prostitution and illegal immigration network which threatened women with voodoo to force them to work as prostitutes.
Arrests took place in Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Tarragona, Algeciras and Las Palmas and it’s undertood that more suspects may yet be taken into custody.
The women were brought over to Spain from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and then put to work in the streets. Some ran up debts to the Nigerian-led gang of as much as 50,000 €, from the high rent they were charged for the rooms where they lived and the fines they were made to pay if they failed to hand over their takings before the deadline imposed by the group.
The Interior Ministry said in a press release on Thursday that the women also suffered constant beatings.
It’s understood that the network used forged documents to obtain Spanish residency for their workforce.
They had another branch to the business, which hacked credit card numbers from banks in the United States, using the information to make online purchases which were later sold on to countrymen for a profit.
The arrests followed evidence from a protected witness, who is one of the women who were exploited by the gang.
