Sexual and labor exploitation, and human organ trafficking, are the most common crimes found in those operations, although the former is the majority, Rodrigo Garcia, general secretary of the National Commission against Human Trafficking at MINSEG, told TVN channel.

‘The sexually exploited women are usually humble, deceived in the search for a better economic situation and it turns out they are exploited them and live far from their families,’ he said.

A group of Nicaraguan citizens were sentenced on June 29 to 15 years in prison for labor exploitation, he said, coinciding with previous allegations of such a crime involving companies that employ illegal migrants and denounce them for deportation without paying them fees.

Frequent inspections carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development (MITRADEL) detected several violations in hiring foreign labor force, mostly people without authorized immigration status, and financial measures were applied to those financial institutions.

The parliament approved this week a new law ‘against foreign workforce exploiters’, which penalizes up to $10,000 USD those employers who violate what is established in hiring labor force, and even the cancellation of the operation permit to repeating offenders.