Sex slaves freed

Couple arrested in Alfaz del Pi for sexual exploitation

A MARRIED couple living in Alfaz del Pi, who own two sex clubs, have been arrested by National Police accused of sexually exploiting several women

Officers released three victims of the human trafficking ring and seized €90,000 and £2,790 in cash, as well as many valuable items of jewellery, at the luxury villa owned by the couple.

A third person has also been arrested.

Police investigations began back in February last year, when officers were warned about a sex trade trafficking ring that enticed young women in from Libya to Nigeria and smuggled them into Europe via Italy and finally to sex clubs in Spain.

Once in Benidorm, the women were told they had a huge debt with the criminal organisation that they had to pay off by working at sex clubs. Two of the clubs - one in Benidorm and one in Alfaz del Pi - were owned by the couple now behind bars.

The exploited women were isolated, mainly due to the language barrier and were left in a very vulnerable condition at the mercy of the ring and the club owners.

Officers found evidence in the villa search of black-book accounts and proof that the couple were largely profiting from the forced prostitution of the sex exploitation ring victims hence being accomplice crimes.

The couple are also alleged to have laundered the illegal gaining through a network of companies.

Colombian victims in separate ring

to their Another gang of human traffickers who brought women into Spain to exploit them as prostitutes in the provinces of Alicante and Albacete have been arrested by the security forces.

The Guardia Civil and national police force of Colombia took part in the operation, which saw a total of seven suspects arrested.

Particularly vulnerable women’ were sought out in Colombia, who were given false promises of jobs in Spain.

Once in the country they were taken directly to brothels in Alicante and Albacete. If they refused to work as prostitutes they were locked up until they agreed to do so..

Guardia Civil officers carried out a number of raids at brothels, ‘sex’ apartments and homes. They found 12 women who had been forced into prostitution.

Five of the suspects hail from Colombia, one is Spanish and the other is Cuban.