Thursday, 29 August 2024, 11:00Last update: about 6 days ago
One of several women allegedly trafficked from Colombia to Malta to work in the sex industry has told a court that she had been expecting to work at a hotel and that, after the brothel was raided, her mother had been intimidated in Colombia.
Four Colombian women were cross-examined on Wednesday on their account of how they had ended up working in the sex trade in Malta.
The women testified before magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech as the compilation of evidence continued against Luke Farrugia, Clint D'Amato, Denzil Farrugia, Kane Vassallo, Gordon Cassar, Dylan McKay, Luca Corito, Nicolae Efimov, and Alexandra Pocora, who are facing charges relating to human trafficking, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
From the stand, one witness identified D'Amato, whom she said she knew as 'Andreas,' and Luke Farrugia as one of her clients who went by the name 'Tyson.' She added that she had been present in the apartment when Farrugia had paid another Colombian girl, who later left Malta, for sex.
One of the women had told the magisterial inquiry that her mother had received threatening phone calls - one from Colombia and another from Malta, during which the callers had ordered her to tell her daughter not to speak to the police and to feign ignorance if asked who her pimp was.
More:
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2024-08-29/local-news/They-told-me-I-d-be-living-in-a-hotel-but-I-ended-up-in-a-brothel-Colombian-woman-tells-court-6736263788
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