Two members of an
international human trafficking network
were arrested thanks to a joint investigation between the National Gendarmerie and the Brazilian Federal Police.
Nine Argentine citizens who were captive in the neighboring country
were assisted and later repatriated.
One of those arrested is a
Brazilian man,
who owns the property located in the municipality of Urubici, in the state of Santa Catarina, where the victims were in precarious and vulnerable conditions.
On the other hand,
a woman was arrested
after a raid in the capital of Misiones, Posadas.
She would be responsible for
recruiting men and women and then transferring them to Brazil under the promise of a well-paid job
.
The investigation began as a result of
several complaints
that were received to line 145 of the National Program for Rescue and Accompaniment of Persons Damaged by the crime of Human Trafficking, dependent on the Ministry of Justice.
In the calls it was noted that there were
several citizens of Argentine nationality who were being exploited for labor in Brazil
.
Then, agents from the Misiones Complex Crimes and Judicial Procedures Investigation Unit began to investigate a possible case of human trafficking.
In a raid in Posadas they arrested a woman, who would be responsible for capturing the victims of the human trafficking network.
Photo: Gendarmerie
After exchanging information with the International Center for Analysis of Complex Crime in the Triple Border, an operation was coordinated with the Brazilian Federal Police to identify the captors and locate the property where the victims were located.
The operation: two detainees and nine victims rescued
Immediately afterwards, they carried out a raid on the rural property located in the Municipality of Urubici and found that
nine people were living in precarious conditions
.
There they arrested a Brazilian man, the person responsible for the place.
The victims, all from Misiones, were assisted and taken to a hotel in Brazil, and then repatriated
.
The detained woman would be responsible for recruiting the victims of the human trafficking network.
Photo: Gendarmerie
Finally, gendarmes from Squadron 50, with the support of agents from the provincial police,
raided a property in Posadas on Sunday night
, where they arrested an adult woman, who would be in charge of capturing the people destined for the crime network. treats.
In that home they seized six cell phones, three notebooks, storage devices, notebooks and cash.
The Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Posadas, the Tripartite Command, the Brazilian Police, the Misiones Police, the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prosecutor's Office, the Argentine Foreign Ministry, the Argentine Consulate in Florianópolis, the Network of Prosecutors of Ibero-America, the Investigation Secretariat of the Public Ministry of Brazil and the National Program for the Rescue of Victims of Trafficking.
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