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12 arrested in Spain over €4.75m scheme exploiting vulnerable Ukrainian women

News Desk9th March 202616th March 2026

9th March 202616th March 20261461

An international police operation targeting a sophisticated money-laundering network has led to the arrest of 12 suspects in Spain who are accused of exploiting vulnerable...

Spanish police bust sex trafficking ring in Mallorca, freeing 15 Chinese women

News Desk26th January 20262nd February 2026

26th January 20262nd February 2026968

The Spanish National Police have freed 15 victims of sexual exploitation who were recruited by a criminal organisation through adverts on social media. According to...

Migrant bodies found in sea off Balearic Islands with hands and feet tied

News Desk24th June 202530th June 2025

24th June 202530th June 20253613

Spain’s Guardia Civil police have opened an investigation following the discovery of several dead migrants in the Mediterranean Sea over the past month, and who...

Spanish police dismantle lucrative Chinese-Arab money laundering ring

News Desk15th May 202521st May 2025

15th May 202521st May 20255663

Spanish police said on Wednesday that they had dismantled a Chinese-Arab criminal network accused of laundering $21 million in profits from drug and people trafficking,...

Spain seeks to strengthen its ban on surrogacy

News Desk24th April 202529th April 2025

24th April 202529th April 20251672

Spain’s Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo (main image), has said that her department and the Ministry of Justice are working on a reform aimed at...

Guardia Civil smash migrant trafficking ring blamed for death of two Britons

News Desk28th February 20254th March 2025

28th February 20254th March 20252164

Spain’s Guardia Civil police have dismantled a human trafficking network held responsible for the deaths of two British men in a motorway pile-up, after their...

Spanish police smash sex trafficking gang that exploited more than 1,000 women

News Desk24th February 20253rd March 2025

24th February 20253rd March 20251918

Spanish police said on Sunday that they had dismantled a human trafficking ring that had lured more than 1,000 women to the country over the...

Guardia Civil arrest 7 traffickers accused of killing asylum seekers

News Desk30th December 20248th January 2025

30th December 20248th January 20251916

Spain’s Guardia Civil police said on Sunday that they had arrested seven people smugglers accused of murdering four migrants during a sea crossing in November...

Spanish Police arrest 36 and dismantle gang dedicated to trafficking Cuban migrants

News Desk9th December 202416th December 2024

9th December 202416th December 20241546

Spain’s National Police have dismantled a transnational criminal organisation dedicated to the trafficking of Cuban migrants. 36 people were arrested in several Spanish provinces for...

Pedro Sánchez vows to ‘abolish’ prostitution

News Desk18th October 202125th October 2021

18th October 202125th October 20212724

Speaking to supporters at the end of his PSOE socialist party’s three-day congress in Valencia on Sunday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that prostitution ‘enslaves’ women...

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