The indictment comes after more than a dozen house searches were conducted in Ljubljana and Maribor in late-January into illegal call centres used to perpetrate phone fraud in China. The investigation revealed the call centres were linked with trafficking.
Six persons have been indicted of human trafficking and one of complicity to trafficking. The nationalities of the suspects have not been revealed, but when police made arrests in January, it busted several Slovenians and at least four Asians.
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The house searches in January produced shocking revelations, as 32 victims of trafficking, most of them Taiwanese nationals, were found working in abysmal conditions.
The victims of trafficking were locked up in houses that doubled as call centres and accommodation, they were stripped of their documents, telephones and money and ordered to perpetrate phone fraud.
They were not allowed to leave the houses even if they wanted to return home. If they did not obey the rules, they were physically and psychologically abused.
The investigation has also revealed the Slovenian handlers worked on instruction from a Taiwanese ringleader who occasionally came to Slovenia but was operating out of Taiwan.
