The Court of Instruction Number 4 of La Laguna has ordered preventive detention for two of the nine members of a network that trafficked migrant minors who escaped from centers in the Canary Islands and were distributed throughout the Peninsula.
TSJC sources also point out that the other seven people investigated by the ‘Operation Akron‘ are released provisionally with the obligation to appear in court every 15 days and are prohibited from leaving the national territory, all as alleged perpetrators of crimes against the rights of foreigners for profit within a criminal organization and false documents.
These are mainly flights to the Peninsula from Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, with documentation in the name of third parties provided by the network in exchange for cash payments.
The judicial order, made public this Tuesday, states that the operation began in January of this year as a result of a call from the NGO Asociación QUORUM Social 77, which managed a center for minors in Puerto de la Cruz, and warned that a A group of people tried to convince the minors to run away and, in exchange for money, transfer them to the Peninsula.
In fact, on February 8, two of them managed to escape and flew to Malaga, probably with a false passport, until they ended up in a center for minors in Valencia.
Knowing by the National Police that there were more transfers of minors to the Peninsula following the same modus operandi, a surveillance device was organized in the two airports of Tenerife and some telephones were intervened in which it was detected that the alleged ringleader of the plot facilitated bribes in the ports of Morocco and Algeciras to facilitate network operations.
Even as a result of these calls, the agents realize that the network is also dedicated to drug trafficking.
