2024-01-14 04:00:42
Eight Colombian women who were reported missing since January 5 in southern Mexico were found this Saturday night and secured by ministerial authorities, reported the interim governor of Tabasco, Carlos Merino.
The discovery occurs after the Colombian consulate in Cancun reported their disappearance and stated that they were eight women of Colombian origin and not nine, who would have been taken by an alleged human trafficking network related to a drug trafficking gang to Villahermosa. , in the southeast of Mexico.
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“I inform the public that, 24 hours after the FGE Tabasco was informed by the letter from the Colombian Consulate in Cancún, and after good investigative work by said Prosecutor’s Office, the Colombian women mentioned by the consul were located. and that they were allegedly missing,” he revealed.
Prior to this announcement, Colombian authorities announced that they are working hand in hand with their Mexican counterparts to find the whereabouts of these eight women and thanked them for the binational collaboration.
The Colombian consulate in Cancún, southern Mexico, stated that the complaint was presented last Friday before the FGE of Tabasco and explained that it established communication with his relatives “to find out the details of the case and initiate the respective consular assistance.”
According to Mexican journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, nine women had been missing since last January 5, when they were taken to attend a private party and were sexually exploited as ‘escorts’ by a man identified as Saulo David Sánchez Zetina, alias ‘El Jaguar’, who allegedly heads a women trafficking network linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The complaint, according to the journalist, was made by another group of colleagues who also work at these parties, who assured that the missing women belong to a group of between 50 and 70 women who were taken to Mexico from Colombia by this trafficking network.
This network, which also has Colombian members, operates by recruiting women in Colombia and taking them to Mexico, where they are informed of a debt of 120.00 Mexican pesos (about $7,100) and their passport is taken away, forcing them to work as ‘escorts’. ‘ at private events.
According to local reports and the testimony revealed by one of the women, they were detained due to a problem between criminal bosses.
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