One of the world's most wanted sex traffickers was captured on Wednesday in a German hotel after European authorities tracked down the phone number of a well-known Lithuanian hockey player.
Leudis Isaac Corro Camacho, nicknamed
La Diabla
, had an international search and arrest warrant due to his alleged operations at the head of a sex trafficking network with women in Spanish cities such as Barcelona, Oviedo and Zaragoza.
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La Diabla
, who earned her nickname for using recruitment strategies similar to those of the homonymous character in the series
Sin senos no hay paraíso
, deceived and exploited women and transgender people from Venezuela, her country of origin.
The woman was part of the Europol most wanted list.
With the promise of a job in Europe, he forced them to undergo breast augmentation and liposuction plastic surgeries, according to the newspaper El País.
Once they arrived in another country, he forced them to prostitute themselves to pay an alleged debt of thousands of euros.
The victims were locked up and suffered physical abuse;
sometimes they were
sold
to nightclubs or other pimps.
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So they found his whereabouts
After his photograph and information were included in Europol's most wanted fugitives list, a man, described as an “alleged client”, led the European authorities to track down a Lithuanian hockey player identified as Robert Licitis, with whom
La Diabla was
supposedly in a relationship.
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Both were located on December 1 in Hamburg in a hotel room.
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In 2020, a former German police officer with whom the woman had run away from Spain was also included in the list of the most wanted and was captured and charged with the same crimes.
According to the Efe news agency, with the arrest of this woman there are already 41 people arrested since in 2016 Europol launched its campaign against the most wanted criminals in Europe.