International trafficking network for trafficked women via Chubut roads

Gendarmerie agents captured two members of this gang in Chubut who were dedicated to the trafficking and exploitation of women and rescued four victims. The data obtained after the operation have corroborated that the criminal group operates in the cities of Buenos Aires and Bahía Blanca, but also in Paraguay and Chile, in the localities of Caaguazú and Punta Arenas, respectively.

According to La Nación, on Saturday 12th of this month, members of the "Vial Trelew Section" examined an intercity bus that had braked a few minutes ago in a desolate location near Route 3, but one of the Victims could not stand the pressure. and started crying. "Under the control of the documents, a very nervous woman said that she did not know where they were taking her," said Commander General Manuel Caraballo, chief of the gendarmerie in the area.

The four victims – captured in Paraguay – were sheltered under the protected witness system, while the investigation is being conducted by the Rawson Federal Court No. 2, whose leader is Gustavo Lleral, responsible for the investigation. death investigation. of Santiago Maldonado, militant of the Mapuche cause, drowned in the river Chubut, in the Lof de Cushamen, on August 1 of last year, while he was trying to escape from the gendarmerie during the expulsion of an Aboriginal picket on Highway 40.

"This organization transferred its victims with a post system and used different people on each trip.The four victims we saved were captured by people from their own communities who offered them fictitious jobs. would be delivered for the purposes of prostitution or bonded labor, "said Caraballo.

The gendarmerie noted that the badysis of the phones seized during the operation generated important data for the investigation. The woman who accompanied the four victims called Liliana Alcaraz and remains in detention. An alleged accomplice was delayed and released, although related to the judicial process.

At present, the main suspects identified are all Paraguayan citizens, but federal agents also follow in the footsteps of some Argentines who would be part of the criminal group.

In addition, Major-General Caraballo said he was working in coordination with the Chilean Investigative Police (PdI), which is currently monitoring specific targets in the south of Punta Arenas.