Beja: Four Romanian citizens acquitted of trafficking in persons crime.


Four Romanian citizens and business, Property one, They were acquitted in the Court of Beja, the practice co-authored and consummate form of a human trafficking crime and 23 documents subtraction crimes.

court-of-beja_800x800O group, aged 26 and 38 year old, He was arrested in 11 November 2013, following an operation carried out by the Judicial Police (PJ) in the city of Moura, where the accused resided, after complaint 23 individuals who were being exploited.

Days before the operation PJ, GNR Serpa seized one of the defendants, 72 passports of Romanian nationality of citizens, among whom were the plaintiffs of workers.

In reading the judgment, the president of the Collective of Judges, Vitor Maneta, left harsh criticism will investigation by the PJ that considered "misguided, namely, as the identification of victims ".

The magistrate ruled that "no constitution as defendant, the prime suspect, invalidates the statements for future memory, victims ", considering that "did not ensure the contradictory, a right of the accused ", concluded.

Vitor Maneta spared the work of PJ justifying that "only a week later served search warrants", to which was added the fact that "not bother to know the farm where the victims worked", concluded.

The case occurred 1 November 2013, after after a week without receiving any remuneration, one of the 23 workers exploited, via mobile phone, contacted the Judicial Police and the Romanian Embassy, both in Lisbon, after having formalized complaint at the post of Serpa GNR, what triggered the efforts of the two forces (GNR e PJ).

This is the third case of human trafficking who was tried in court in Beja, wherein thirteen of a total of twenty Romanian citizens and two companies founded by the defendants, accused of trafficking crimes of people in the olive picking, were sentenced to jail, almost all of them with suspended sentence.

No total, the judges who judged the three cases, applied prison sentences of 52 years and 6 months and dissolved the two companies involved in the hiring scheme of exploited workers. Only one of the condemned fulfills imprisonment.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)


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