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Reporter
gang of 13 people have been arrested in a National Police operation which has uncovered a criminal network which recruited women from abroad to put them to work as prostitutes in alternative nightclubs in Andalucía.
The Interior Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that the Romanian-Spanish network was led by a clan known as ‘Los Cortés’, whose leaders were a married couple who recruited their staff on regular trips to Brazil and Romania with the false promise of a respectable job. Once in Spain, the women were kept shut up in a warehouse in Córdoba until they could be provided with false identity documents.
They were then put to work in nightclubs in Sevilla, Córdoba and Málaga under the threat of extreme violence.
The criminal organisation also had a network of ghost companies which it used to launder their profits.
