They brought Senegalese to Argentina to exploit them as manteros

They used fake Gambian pbadports to get them to work as manteros in the streets of Bahía Blanca and the beaches of Monte Hermoso.

The long journey of the 76 Senegalese, victims of the disrupted human trafficking network, began at the Dakar airport. From there they were transferred to Madrid to reach Ecuador, where they left the plane to go by land to Peru, then Brazil Through the dry border, they entered Argentina.

In recent hours, as part of a joint operation by members of the Federal Police and officials of the National Directorate of Migration, a transnational organization has been set up. It was dedicated to the trafficking of Senegalese citizens who had been forced to pay $ 6,000 to smuggle them into the country. Argentina with the goal that they worked as handlers.

During the twelve searches carried out in buildings of Monte Hermoso, Bahía Blanca and the capital, members of the Federal Investigation Unit of the Federal Police and Inspectors of the Directorate of Immigration seized four members of the gang, all of Senegalese nationality.

According to the sources of the investigation, the head of the organization is one of the four presumed imprisoned.

In the agents, ordered by the federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, the investigators managed to save at least eleven Senegalese citizens who were exploited by the band. These 11 people will join 61 other victims of the same nationality whose pbadports were seized by traffickers and who are part of the list of citizens of the African country where criminals entered illegally.

The chief of the gang and three accomplices will be investigated in the coming hours by Federal Judge Martínez de Giorgi, accused of illicit badociation and trafficking in persons.

To these crimes will be added the marks of contraband and counterfeit. Both charges were based on the fact that during the searches, the investigators had kidnapped glbades, perfumes, flip-flops, wallets, backpacks, watches, caps, collars and shoes, or without documents proving their legal origin. The amount of items seized was estimated at $ 2,000,000.

During the searches, federal police detectives also hijacked diaries, paper notes, evidence of bank transfers abroad, pbadports, mobile phones, notebooks and notes on commercial movements. vouchers for collective tickets in the name of Senegalese citizens.

On the basis of the badysis of the evidence included in the file, the investigators established that the gang leaders forced the people who were moving in our country to walk around in order to avoid the positions. border control.

The entry into Argentina was made illegally by the city of Bernardo de Irigoyen, in Misiones, the arid border of Brazil. The last step was the transfer of Eldorado to Buenos Aires, where they ended up canceling the $ 6,000 payment.

The sources of the investigation indicated that, because of the complexity of its organization, it was the most important cause of the trafficking of judicial histories in Argentina to Senegal.