At least nineteen people were arrested in the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs accused of integrating a sect dedicated to recruiting people under the facade of a yoga center in order to subject them to sexual and labor exploitationpolice and judicial sources reported.
Also, other crimes such as aggravated robbery, money laundering and illegal practice of medicine are investigatedaccording to sources.
The more than 50 break-ins were carried out last night by detectives from the Trafficking in Persons Department of the Federal Investigations Superintendency of the Argentine Federal Police, which discovered the criminal action while investigating the company BA GROUP.
The sources indicated that apparently that firm is “the visible face” used by a transnational criminal organization that moves in the world of business, health and politics.
“This case is in the process of investigation, we are carrying out raids and arrests requested by the court, and what we are looking for is to gather more evidence for the investigation that has been going on for more than a year,” inspector commissioner Ricarlo Juri explained last night, in one of the the raids in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo.
According to Juri, “different criminal types are being analyzed, such as human trafficking and money laundering.”
The operations were ordered by the Federal Court 4, in charge of Ariel Lijowhich ordered more than 50 raids in the city of Buenos Aires and in the province of Buenos Aires, as well as the Ezeiza International Airport.
Juri also explained: “There are procedures in Ezeiza, and we await the results regarding people who were hospitalized in health centers and should not be. In addition to the dispossession of property through legal and real estate studies.”
“The methodology they use is typical of sects, where people in a situation of vulnerability due to a pseudo-religious intervention convince them to dispossess them of their assets,” he added.
After investigation tasks, follow-ups, database queries, requests for cooperation to different organizations and wiretaps, among others, it was possible to identify the entire criminal organization, and the maneuvers used to commit different ones.
The crimes involved are trafficking in persons for the purpose of reducing servitude, aggravated by coercion, aggravated theft, money laundering, illicit association, illegal practice of medicine, irregular sale of medicines and influence peddling, police sources indicated. the sources.
