A major prostitution enterprise that had been exploiting migrant women has been dismantled by Greek authorities.
Greece’s organised crime and human trafficking unit managed to coordinate the arrest of 13 people suspected of involvement in Athens, Mykonos, and the southwest Peloponnese. Meanwhile arrest warrants have been issued for the arrest of an additional 12 suspects, reports Kathimerini.
Those involved, have been described by police as being ‘members of a gang’. They would smuggle women into Greece from neighbouring countries, under the false promise of finding them legal employment. Once in the Greek capital however, the women would be stripped of their identification and travel documents. They were kept in apartments and then forced to work as prostitutes both in Athens and across the country.
The gang members would even find men who were willing to marry the women for money, in a bid to grant the women residency in Greece.
According to investigators, evidence suggests 25 women at the very least have been exploited as part of the illegal enterprise in the past six months.
