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Lusa - Business News - Portugal: Alleged network exploiting immigrants in Alentejo to go on trial

Beja,Portugal,March.28,2024(Lusa)-A total of 48 of the 51 official suspects in a case involving an alleged network that hired immigrants for agriculture in the Portugal's Alentejo region will go on trial, although crimes of human trafficking involving victims from Timor-Leste have been 'dropped'.
According to the pre-trial hearing decision for the case, dated Tuesday and consulted on Wednesday by the Lusa agency, judge Helena Marques Bellas ruled that almost all of the 51 defendants who were charged will stand trial in a collective court.
Only three of the suspects, all men of Portuguese nationality, whom the public prosecutor's office (MP) accused of the crime of criminal association and of committing 35 crimes of trafficking in human beings, relating to Timor-Leste victims, were not indicted.
The MP's indictment, also consulted by Lusa, stated that these three Portuguese were "employees and managers of the farms" and "responsible for arranging workplaces for the exploited 'workers/victims'".
However, in the decision following the preliminary hearing of the case, held at the Beja Court, the judge of the General Jurisdiction Court of Cuba decided not to rule against them.
However, according to the decision, with the exception of these, the other 48 defendants will be tried, "in material co-authorship and effective competition, for committing a crime of criminal association".
For human trafficking, the judge decided that five defendants and a company will be tried for 20 offences, four defendants for eight offences and eight defendants for seven offences.
Thirty-four official suspects will be charged with one offence of money laundering, five with one offence of possession of a prohibited weapon and one with one offence of drug trafficking, the decision reads.
The judge decided not to indict all the defendants for 20 of the offences of trafficking in human beings, i.e. those relating to the Timor-Leste victims were 'dropped'.
She also decided not to indict 28 defendants - including 20 people and eight companies - for 35 offences of trafficking in human beings, also relating to victims of Timor-Leste nationality, and 16 official suspects of committing an offence of money laundering.
The decision states that, "although the indictment refers to the existence of at least 55 victims, it is true that only 35 people have been duly identified", because "20 of the 31 Timor-Lestee citizens" who lived on a hill in Cuba (Beja) "have not been located and identified".
Contacted by Lusa, Pedro Pestana, the lawyer for six of the defendants in the case, revealed that he intends to appeal this decision to the Évora Court of Appeal.
"But it was a victory for the defence to have many of the crimes that all the defendants were accused of dropped, even though we didn't have the opportunity to produce evidence or present witnesses in the pre-trial hearing," he argued.
The lawyer also pointed out that, with this decision, "of the 26 defendants who were in pre-trial detention, 10 have been released" - five of them his clients - and will be subject to other coercive measures.
This case dates back to 23 November 2022, when the Judicial Police (PJ) carried out an operation in the district of Beja in which they detained 35 suspects "strongly indicted" for crimes of criminal association, human trafficking, money laundering and document forgery, among others.
At the time, the PJ indicated that the suspects included "a criminal network dedicated to exploiting the labour of immigrant citizens", noting that the investigation was continuing.
According to the indictment, the case involved a total of 51 official suspects, including 41 people, 32 of them foreign nationals, and 10 companies.
The official suspects were accused of more than 60 offences, most of them human trafficking, including Timor-Leste, Ukrainian, Algerian, Moroccan and Moldovan victims.
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Date : 2024-03-29 10:56:00

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