The scheme involved at least 38 women victims and is believed to have fetched the criminal gang at least EUR , The investigation culminated last Wednesday with house searches carried out at 13 locations, with criminal police officers identifying at least 38 victims, mostly from the Dominican Republic. Criminal complaints have been filed against two legal entities and eight persons, one of whom is still in detention.
The police have found out using covert methods that the scheme was performed by a criminal gang in which every member had very specific roles. The club was leased from a year-old Slovenian citizen. Some of them were lured to Slovenia under the pretence of a well-paid waitress job, and they were accommodated at various locations in and around Maribor. From there they were taken to the night club, where they had to provide sex services. The price of sexual services was set in advance at EUR per hour, with the women receiving only part of the payment, as they first had to give most of the money to the gang as reimbursement of costs of transfer to Slovenia.
They were able to stop doing prostitution only when the gang allowed it or when they managed to recruit, under the pretence of a well-paid waitress job, at least two other women who would then had to do prostitution themselves," he added. The victims, aged , were under constant surveillance and some of them formally married Slovenian citizens in order to get residence permits.
The first estimates say that the criminal gang has earned at least EUR , with the scheme. Under the Slovenian criminal code, between three and 15 years in prison and a fine is envisaged for a criminal act of trafficking in human beings as part of a criminal gang.
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