PJ captured a 48-year-old woman in Beja, Alentejo, who was wanted by Moldovan authorities to serve seven years in prison for the crime of trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation. The victim thought he was going to work in a restaurant and was forced to prostitute himself.
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02/11/2026
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A Judicial Police (PJ) arrested a 48-year-old foreign citizen in Beja, Alentejo, sought by the judicial authorities of Moldova, to serve a seven-year prison sentence, for the crime of trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation.
In a statement sent this Monday, November 2, to News to Minutes, inspectors reveal that everything happened in 2014, when the defendant was part of a criminal network.
She recruited another woman, “unemployed and without financial means, with the ultimate objective of subjecting her to sexual exploitation”.
To this end, the defendant “offered” him a job as a waitress in Dubai City, in the United Arab Emirates, with a monthly salary of $1,000 US dollars.”.
Subsequently, he organized the transport through the acquisition of the plane ticket and obtaining the entry and residence visa in that country.
When the victim arrived in Dubai, “he was received at his destination by an unknown person, who acted together with the now in custody.” At that time, the woman was eventually transported to an apartment where, against her will, she was forced to prostitute herself.
After being captured in Portugal, the detention was present to the Tribunal da Relação de Évora, which determined that the subsequent terms of the extradition process subject to the measure of coercion of preventive imprisonment should be awaited.