In a joint operation called ‘Bismark-Pantene’, Six people from Morocco and Romania who were abusing foreign laborers in Albacete, Spain, were taken into custody, with four of them being the subject of an investigation.
These individuals recruited people of many nationalities under dubious circumstances, gave them false paperwork, demanded commissions, and had them labor for long hours on provincial farms without weekly breaks.
The Labor and Social Security Inspection of Albacete, the Civil Guard, the Spanish National Police, and other agencies collaborated to arrest the individuals in question after suspicions arose about their operations.
According to ABC Espana, police learned in June 2023 that there may have been a criminal organization that had settled in the municipalities of Hellín (Albacete) and Sedaví (Valencia) and focused on the labor exploitation of immigrants in suspicious circumstances.
Initial police reports indicated that an individual regularly went to a central bar in the town of Hellín at odd hours, meeting foreign citizens from different provinces to select and distribute into groups.
Later, the same individuals were sent to various agricultural properties in the town, regardless of whether they had legal documentation to reside or work in Spanish territory.
Once business started and the foreign laborers were paid, the suspect reportedly withdrew an excessive amount of money from each of them.
The criminal group subjected the workers to hard-working circumstances, such as exceeding twelve hours with no weekly break.
Additionally, according to police reports cited by the same media, they were charged excessive commissions for managing the job contract, traveling to the office, or renting equipment required to perform their duties.
To secure the regularization of the workers, the criminal organization formalized faked employment contracts and fraudulent Social Security registrations. The foreign workers paid between 7,000 and 8,000 euros in cash for this procedure.
Three searches have been conducted as part of the last stages of the combined operation by the Spanish authorities in Hellín in Albacete, Sedaví in Valencia, and Cieza in Murcia.
Along with evidence of a parallel clandestine accounting system, several cell phones, computer equipment, phony contracts, and other documents confirming criminal conduct, 7.275 euros in cash, multiple nominative checks, and two high-end vehicles have also been confiscated.
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