About four dozen people were detained by the Judiciary Police. (PJ) in a mega operation to combat human trafficking in the district of Beja.
In the operations center, installed in the city park of Beja, where the authorities set up a tent and two containers, are about 400 inspectors to identify and listen to suspects.
There are several seized vehicles and Lidador NotÃcias (LN) know that among those arrested is a solicitor from the Alentejo town of Cuba. Arrested citizens are being forwarded to Lisbon.
A ACT (Authority for Working Conditions) is also in place.
Last Labor Exploitation Trial
Five Asian defendants, four Indians and one Pakistani, aged between 28 and 55 year old, were acquitted by a panel of judges of the Beja Court of co-authorship of eleven crimes, eight being human trafficking, one of criminal association, one for illegal immigration assistance and one for illegal immigration assistance association.
The judgment was read last day 4 November, in a process that began in Serpa, and with the decision to acquit Gurjit Singh, Amandeep Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Sukhpal Kaur Brar and Muhammad Ashraf also “fell†the prosecution's claims (MP) de Beja, who in the indictment asked for the conviction of an accessory penalty of expulsion from the national territory for the four Indians, in addition to requests for forfeiture of products and advantages in favor of the State of 296.209,47 euros and the extended loss of assets worth 271.451,23 euros. The company Surprise Erudite Unipessoal, Lda, controlada por Sukhpal Kaur Brar, a woman 29 year old, was also acquitted of the offenses she was accused of in view of the acquittal of her manager.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
