Overview

• At least 15 simultaneous searches in La Plata, Berazategui, Quilmes, Bahía Blanca, Rosario, Santa Rosa and Buenos Aires City led to multiple arrests and the seizure of digital and financial evidence.
• Those detained include Elizabeth Rodrigo, alleged leader Noelia Elizabeth Ávalos, web operator Noelia Macarena Lacuadra and Carlos Alberto Molina, identified as a partner who managed locations.
• Twelve women aged 22 to 45 were rescued and placed under the National Program for Rescue and Accompaniment of Victims of Trafficking.
• Investigators say the network offered false cleaning jobs, rotated victims every 10–15 days, changed phone lines frequently, took 90% of earnings and charged up to 90,000 pesos for photo “books,” enforcing payments with threats.
• Searches recovered computers, phones, cameras, notebooks, a money-counting machine, contracts and more than US$20,000 in cash, while prosecutors in La Plata formalized imputations as the cross-jurisdictional probe continues.