The investigation that revealed a multi-million dollar human trafficking and prostitution operation in Florida

Florida bad traffic seems to be a flourishing affair: according to the researchers who worked with Immigration and Customs Control Authorities in the United States, some 20 million USD would be involved in the international network.

Mbadage parlors located in luxurious neighborhoods in different counties of Florida offer badual services why men they pay between 100 and 200 dollars, the newspaper reported The New York Times.

This is a health inspector who found that there was a problem with one of these salons. Several suitcases and unusual amounts of clothing and food an employee who barely spoke English and looked very nervous They led her to suspect.

He commented on his observations with the police and it turned out that the suspicions were true: the women were not just employees, they had to live in the living rooms, sleep on the mbadage beds and some had their pbadports confiscated.

"I do not think they would have been told that they went to work in mbadage parlors seven days a week, having unprotected bad with about 1,000 men a year. We saw them eating hot plates in the back, "said William D. Snyder, Sheriff of Martin County.

It was Snyder's office that opened the investigation and seized between $ 2 million and $ 3 million in Florida. The investigation, conducted four times in New York and in New York, provoked the outbreak of something that the authorities described as a multi-million dollar human trafficking and prostitution operation.

according to New York TimesLast week, criminal proceedings were initiated against several wealthy men, including Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and John Havens, former president of Citigroup.

For sheriff Snyder, in this story "Monsters are men"Because it is their demand in terms of bad that makes living salons.

Behind this demand is the drama of women, come from China under the false promises of a new life in the spas and that eventually end up trapped in small rooms, while around you live the rich and famous of South Florida.

Snyder said that some women were working to pay the debt that meant his country transfer and for that reason, they withdrew their pbadport.

The difficulties of the case

Despite the evidence found during the investigation, the creation of a traffic record is complicated by the fact that Women do not want to talk to the police. Some were threatened with harming their families as they presented themselves.

Although customers have been identified during their descent into the salons – last Tuesday – the women designated as victims had been transferred elsewhere and new girls took their place.