Group of traffickers of Moldovan women discovered in Spain

The Spanish police identified a criminal group that was trafficking young women from Moldova. The women were forced to prostitute themselves in night clubs in Pedrezuela town, which is not far from the Spanish capital, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a National Spanish Police communiqué published by the foreign press. The police arrested eight persons, who are citizens of Moldova and of Spain. According to the police, the group members were recruiting women from Moldova, offering them well-paid jobs. The police began to track the group in March 2008, when a woman managed to escape and complained to the police. The victim said she was brought to Spain with Romanian passport and had been kept for a long time in an apartment in Madrid and then in Granda-Siera and beaten because she did not want to work as a prostitute. The suspects were accused of complicity in illegal immigration with the aim of sexually exploiting women, criminal collusion, forced sequestration of foreigners, beating, threats and participation in criminal activities. The police confiscated 38,000 euros, side arms and drugs from them.