Agents of the National Police have released in Madrid five women victims of human trafficking who were sexually exploited in a chalet in Madrid, the Higher Police Headquarters reported in a statement.

The criminal organization of Chinese origin that sexually exploited them, made up of five people (two women and three men) from a family clan that was dedicated to their exploitation and control, has been dismantled.

Those involved enjoyed a “high standard of living that brought them the benefits of their criminal activity”. The detainees had real estate in the Community of Madrid, whose value exceeded one million euros, as well as high-end cars that have been seized.

The criminal network, which operated in national territory and was based in Madrid, recruited victims in China. Once they were recruited under deceit to come to Spain, one of the members of the network was in charge of picking them up and transferring them from the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport and taking them by car to a chalet in the city of Madrid.

The victims, ignorant of where they were going, were deceived with the promise of obtaining the documentation they needed to obtain a job, but it was in this chalet that their sexual exploitation began.

The organization, led by two sisters of Chinese nationality and heads of the network, had five members and had real estate in the Community of Madrid. The leaders organized among themselves for alternate weeks to control the women and to carry out the economic collection of the money obtained during sexual exploitation.

The rest of the members of the organization, couples of the leaders and the son of one of them, collaborated in the criminal activity carrying out logistical tasks in the maintenance of the house where the victims were or collecting the money that was obtained. through sexual exploitation.

The investigation culminated in the release of five victims of sexual exploitation in Madrid and the arrest of the five members of the organization in Arroyomolinos, El Vellón and the city of Madrid, as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of exploitation. crimes related to prostitution and belonging to a criminal organization.

During the operation, three house searches were carried out in the towns of Arroyomolinos, El Vellón and Madrid, where 30 storage devices, electronic devices, including mobile phones and computers, more than 15,000 euros in cash, five high-end cars valued at more than 250,000 euros and documentation related to the investigation.