How the Chinese criminal network Tian Xia She operated: Young girls prostituted as slaves and minors selling drugs
It was all about business and they knew how to get the most out of each person, whether they were young girls tricked into travelling to Spain in search of a better future, or minors without roots who started dealing drugs and who were promised a career within “the family.” That “family” was the criminal organization Tian Xia She, which according to police translators means “the world.” This Chinese mafia was dismantled last December in an operation that resulted in four of its leaders being sent to prison and 33 of its victims freed. The investigation, which took two years, targeted a “hierarchical and ramified” mafia that wove international networks to amass money through the sexual exploitation of women, illegal immigration, or extortion of hospitality businesses, among other crimes. The profit from this criminal activity, “a huge amount of money” that investigators estimate in “the millions,” was mainly moved in cash. It was either returned to China to be laundered or loaned to the Chinese community in Spain under usurious conditions.
