The Office of the Attorney General identified a woman accused of deceiving young people with false job offers to induce them to travel to Mexico and sexually exploit them

The victims were contacted through social media in Villavicencio (Meta) and induced to travel to Cancún, where they would work in a hotel. However, upon arrival, they were deprived of their documents, were held prisoners, and were forced to engage in sexual activity.

The Attorney General’s Office revealed that a woman would the main connection in Colombia with a criminal network accused of deceiving young people with false job offers and convincing them to travel to Mexico to sexually exploit them there.

A specialized prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Meta (Seccional Meta) charged a woman identified as Lix Verónica Novoa Montenegro with human trafficking, but she did not plead guilty to the charges. For his part, a judge imposed a prison sentence.

The evidence indicates that the defendant allegedly located the victims through social media, offered them jobs at a five-star hotel in Cancún, Mexico, and processed documentation, airline tickets, and money to travel abroad.

The young women who accepted and arrived in Mexico were met by a group of people who took them to Playa del Carmen area, on the coast of the state of Quintana Roo. They were deprived of their documents, were held prisoners, and were forced to engage in sexual activity in a nightclub to pay fines imposed to cover their living expenses, food, and other expenses.

One of the victims of this illegal network escaped from the place where she was sexually exploited, and she went to the authorities, and denounced. In her statement, she stated that she traveled to Mexico in March 2024, along with three other victims. With the information, and other evidence gathered in the investigation conducted by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), the Office of the Attorney General obtained an arrest warrant for Novoa Montenegro, which was conducted in Villavicencio by CTI officers, with support from the National Police and the National Army.

The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.