According to a report from the Tarapacá Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Chile, the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua charges “fines” of $5,000 to women who engage in the sex trade.
The Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua imposes three types of charges to obtain profits from the trafficking of migrants to Chile, revealed a report from the Prosecutor’s Office of the Tarapacá Region in Chile to which the portal had access Cooperative.
The document gave an account of the methodologies used by the band, which obtains profits by directly charging migrants, the application of taxes or “vaccines” to haulers and carriers and charging the same to other migrant smugglers who dare to move foreign citizens through the area.
«The transfer from Lima to Iquique has an approximate value of 400 dollars. From Tarapacá to the Metropolitan Region, 180 dollars », he confirmed.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the organization transports about 200 migrants a week, indicated the Chilean portal.
Also, “The snipers were charged 6 dollars per migrant caught and the carriers 25 dollars per vehicle used.” The cell that operates in Tarapacá “maintained contact with approximately 40 sniffers and carriers,” he pointed out.
As if that were not enough, it also showed that, regarding human trafficking, the organization imposes “fines” of 5,000 dollars (about 4.8 million pesos) for the transfer of Venezuelan migrant women to engage in the sex trade: the punishment “is paid in installments of $250 a week, plus $20 a day for lodging; and they are facilitated the ticket, the payment of online advertisement, hairdresser and a week of accommodation ».
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The document also found a possible laundering of assets of the Aragua Train through the automotive market: He uses the income from his illicit “businesses” to buy motorcycles that are later leased to irregular migrants who use them for delivery services.
In this context, the deputy for the area Danissa Astudillo commented that they have asked “the Undersecretary of the Interior (Manuel Monsalve) to look for alternative mechanisms to act urgently, we can make purchases of biometric facial detectors, scanners and everything that was promised to us during the visit of the former Minister of the Interior (Izkia Siches)».
“Just as in the pandemic we had access to direct purchases, today we cannot continue waiting for the bureaucratic processes required by the Comptroller’s Office,” he added.
From the UDI, the deputy Renzo Trisotti questioned: “I do not know what other proof the Government needs, what other evidence must be shown to it so that it understands that organized crime gangs are operating brutally in the Tarapacá Region, where unfortunately in a service that practically all houses use, such as the delivery system, you have criminal gangs near your house ».
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