The Austrian police, working with Hungarian authorities, have shut down a pimping ring that operated in Linz and Wels for more than five years. At least twelve women were forced into prostitution by this group.
The group targeted young women in Hungary who were struggling with drug addiction. They used drugs to control them and sometimes even kidnapped them to bring them to Upper Austria. The women were made to work in illegal brothels or hotels in Linz and Wels. They had to give all their earnings to the people controlling them, who kept them dependent by supplying more drugs.
Arrests made in both countries
In November, police arrested a 46-year-old Hungarian woman in Linz just before she could return to Hungary. During a raid on an illegal brothel in downtown Linz, two of the exploited women were rescued.
At the same time, three other members of the group, two men and a woman were arrested in Budapest after searches ordered by the Wels prosecutor’s office. These three are also suspected of drug smuggling.
The victims told police that the group had made at least €850,000 from their activities. This shows how organized and profitable their operation was.
The 46-year-old woman arrested in Linz is now in pretrial detention. Police are still working to uncover more details about the group’s activities and to find other victims and accomplices.
If a loverboy is too kind to you, it is better to leave
Most human trafficking rings use a so-called Loverboy method. In such cases, a young and stylish man approaches a young girl and makes a connection with her.
The depth of the connection can vary. In some cases, the Loverboy is just kind and offers help to the girl by referring her to employers in a foreign country, and when the victim approves this, she ends up in an illegal brothel in one of the Western European countries, often without any ID documents and forced to have sex with strangers.
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Sometimes the Loverboy provides financial support or gives presents to the selected girl, and at some point, he falls into (fake) trouble, from which only a large amount of money could help him, and the girl is made to work as a prostitute to save his life. And as we could see in this news, sometimes the Loverboy and his gang provide drugs to the selected girls, who become addicted and can be smuggled to other countries and forced to work as prostitutes.
As a rule of thumb, if a young man is too kind to you, it is better to be skeptical and not fall in love with him immediately. And for work in foreign countries, language knowledge is essential, and it is very hard to get legal work without speaking that language, even if a new “good friend” says otherwise.
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