Recruited in Paraguay, they had them cross all over Argentina to take them to Chile to prostitute themselves – 30/01/2019

The Federal Justice is investigating the links between an alleged international network of traffickers and a dual nationality woman domiciled in Bahía Blanca, arrested by the gendarmerie in recent days in Trelew while she was guarding four young Paraguayans at a police station. trip to Chile, where they were going to explode badually. In a microphone, during a routine check of the gendarmerie, one of the girls broke and learned that they had been transported "against their will".

He also told uniformed officers that they had "several days of travel", with a brief stopover in Buenos Aires, for which authorities believe that they "recruited" them in Paraguay and made them cross the whole country to take them to Chile.

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The woman who wore them at the microphone called Liliana Alcaraz, she is 30 years old and has Paraguayan / Chilean nationality. The investigators link her to possible ramifications of a criminal organization in Punta Alta, where she lived before settling in Bahía Blanca about three years ago.

The news was published by the newspaper La Nueva of this city of Buenos Aires and is based on data provided by the national gendarmerie. Rawson federal judge Gustavo Lleral sued Alcaraz.

The maneuver was discovered – almost by chance – on January 12, when a group of gendarmesHe did the documentation of the pbadengers from a group that had by destination Comodoro Rivadavia, during a check at kilometer 1448 of the national highway 3, at the height of Trelew.

Seeing the uniforms, one of the four victims broke down. In the middle of crying and a tense situation, he badured them that they were transferred against their will three days ago "For a traffic network with an uncertain final destination", but presumably in Chile. The other three rescued girls reported finding themselves in the same situation and also reported that Alcaraz was responsible for driving them to trans-African lands. For this reason, the acting magistrate ordered the arrest of the woman.

Major-General Manuel Caraballo, head of Gendarmerie Region V, based in Bahía Blanca, said the four women were between 25 and 28 years old and had been registered in the National Program for Rescue and Accompanying Victims. milking
In the opinion of Caraballo, having responsibilities in Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, south of the province of Buenos Aires and La Pampa-, the group operates in an "organized" manner and would be composed of many members.

"They recruit Paraguayan citizens in the department of Caaguazú, Paraguay, bring them to Argentina, hold them for some time in Buenos Aires, then send them to the south of the country to cross them to Chile, where they badually exploit them in the nocturnal places of Punta Arenas", Confirmed the head of the gendarmerie.

"Once in Buenos Aires, they embark in Bahía Blanca, where a female person (de Alcaraz) approaches the group and plays the role of guardian or guide for the victims," ​​he added. . To date, according to the information provided to the gendarmerie by the Chilean police investigation, Trafficked women were not saved in Punta Arenas.

Alcaraz, as confirmed by the gendarmerie, is detained in a prison in the province of Chubut and has no criminal record in Argentina, Paraguay and Chile.

Correspondent Chubut