It today starts at the noble hall of the building of the former Civil Government of Beja, the first session of the “Operation Mirror” process instruction, whose accusation was the responsibility of the Public Prosecution Service of the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP) Évora.
In order not to be pronounced for judgment, following the operational intervention carried out by the Judicial Police, in 21 November 2023, Nine of the fourteen defendants, Six of which in pre -trial detention, asked for process instruction.
As Lidador Notícias revealed last day 10 March, twenty -one defendants, fourteen people and seven commercial societies, were accused by the Évora Diap MP, the practice of 35 crimes, being thirty of trafficking in people, one to aid illegal immigration, an association of aid to illegal immigration, a capital bleaching, a document forgery or counterfeiting and a forbidden weapon detention.
According to the order of Judge Adriana Martins, of the Judgment of General Competence of Ferreira do Alentejo, Given the exceptional complexity of the case, the fact that the defendants are arrested for 16 months and the prosecution was deduced at four months, The next few days were designated 20 and 21 March, for the realization of the instructive acts.
The opening of the instruction was requested by the six defendants, five men and a woman, who are in custody, all of Romanian nationality, Two Spanish and one Portuguese, a technique and manager of an accounting company, which according to the indictment, assisted and facilitated the illegal entry of raised immigrant victims.
The group's modus operandi led by Florentin Stinga, It was the same as other identical situations, that has gone through the enticement and exploitation of workers in Moldova, Romania, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Spain and Morocco, that depending on seasonal crops, were put to work, in several zones of Alentejo, Lisbon and Spain. Lived in inhuman and degrading conditions and received between 50 euros per week per couple or 50 euros biweekly per person, when for a daily day of ten hours of work were promised 1.200 Euro per month.
The defendants' activity developed between 2019 and 2023, that generated thousands of euros of profit, that the MP wants to reverse to the state, and that translate into the loss of advantage of 9.143.089,03 euros, of ten vehicles and four motorcycles 4×4 seized. In the operation carried out by PJ, In the residences of the defendants were also seized 4.060 euro cash.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
