Madrid, 19 Feb. – A Venezuelan woman, claimed by Mexico in connection with a scam involving two women who were forced into prostitution after they were tricked into claiming jobs as hostesses at events, has provided documents that allegedly show the complaint which motivated her claim was initiated by her ex-partner as revenge for breaking off the relationship.
The prosecution considers this evidence credible, which led it to oppose the surrender of this woman, while recognizing that, if this circumstance does not occur, all the conditions are met to have access to it, according to the ministry. public in its report to the criminal chamber of the National Court, which is studying in a hearing on Monday whether the extradition takes place.
From the analysis of the documents provided, warns the prosecutor, “we can deduce the serious situation of threat which affects the life of the accused”, in addition to the proof of “the absence of the accused at the place and at the date of the alleged facts”. .
On the accused, YNVA, weighs an arrest warrant issued last June by the judge of control of the accusatory procedure system of Mexico, attached to the judicial management unit number twelve.
He is accused of having participated in August 2021 with other people, “who are neither identified nor listed”, in a scam consisting in offering work as hostesses to two people, when in reality they wanted to coerce them. to practice prostitution for their own profit. . .
“Obtained consent fraudulently,” the defendant allegedly met the girls on September 11 and agreed to hire them to provide their services as hostesses at two events on September 18 and 25 in Mexico City.
Once their confidence had been gained, he would have made an appointment with them again in October at the Presidente Hotel in the same city, where they provided their hostess services.
Once finished, he allegedly told them to go up to their respective rooms where he allegedly threatened them with having sex with two participants in the event, who paid the accused herself for such services.
The facts constitute, according to Mexican legislation, a crime of trafficking in persons in its modality of aggravated sexual exploitation, which in Spanish corresponds to a crime related to prostitution and sexual exploitation and two crimes of sexual assault, who would not have prescribed, so it would be possible to accept delivery.
However, observes the prosecutor, the documents provided by the defendant “give credence to her allegation that the complaint is launched by her ex-partner”, who, according to her, threatened her with revenge for having broken off the relationship.
There is evidence that the ex-partner would have had access to data on the extradition procedure before it was officially communicated to the defendant (in particular the judicial arrest warrant) and also of the boasting he makes of his contacts with the authorities supposedly led by him. against the defendant.
In this context, the Public Prosecutor’s Office emphasizes “the laconic nature of the incriminated facts and the absence of inculpatory data beyond the simple manifestation of these without the contribution of testimonies or investigations into their presence at the scene of the facts “.
Faced with this, it is clear that the person claimed on September 30, 2021 took a flight from Medellín to Paris with a stopover in Madrid. A few days later, on October 11, he entered Spain from Mexico City.
On August 29 of the same year, he flew from Caracas to Bogota, on October 7 he flew to Istanbul, on the 11th from there to Mexico, and on the 16th he left for Caracas.
The prosecutor recalls that if, “in principle, circumstances relating to the merits of the case cannot be opposed to the request for surrender, there is an exception based on the manifest impossibility of committing the acts due to objective circumstances which prove” such as this case.