Spanish Police Bust Migrant Exploitation Ring in Malaga, 43 Arrested

Seven companies in Malaga, mainly exploiting migrants of Moroccan origin who had paid between 1,500 and 3,000 euros for fictitious contracts, were the subject of an investigation by the national police. The managers of these companies took advantage of the irregular situation of these migrants, who need a work contract to obtain their residence and work permit, to exploit them.

They promise the migrants to regularize their situation, presenting them in the labor administrations with the identity of other foreign citizens in a regular situation in Spain, reports La Voz del Sur. These migrants lived in inhumane conditions in houses belonging to the leaders of this human trafficking network.

The investigators discovered the existence of four houses belonging to them in the province of Malaga. After searching them, 56,985 euros in cash, four mobile phones and abundant documentation useful for the investigation were seized. According to the investigators, the criminal network could also commit various tax frauds, with the complicity of several civil servants and a lawyer.