This is how the mafia that charged “quotas” to sex workers in North Lima operated

They dominated the ‘pink zones’ of the olive trees, Comas and Puente Piedra. In those jurisdictions North Limathey felt untouchable and extorted dozens of sex workers. His goal was amassing large sums of money, which could reach up to 50,000 soles a month, to lead a life of luxury, excess and a lot of drugs. Death was the cost of not paying them.

It is about a dangerous mafia made up of foreigners that fell this week in commasafter a surprise operation by the National Police of Peru (PNP). According to the authorities, in that district they had their “bunker” in which they planned to “collect quotas” of between 400 and 600 soles a week from the prostitutes, who lived in fear.

“They have weapons, grenades, and we are afraid because what they told us is that they were going to make an attempt on our lives,” one of them told Domingo al Día, under anonymity.

Colonel PNP, Víctor Revoredo, head of the Homicide Divisionconfirmed that these subjects are seasoned delinquentswho had as a “life model” to subdue these women, and those who opposed them ended up dead.

According to the Police, Hector Alfonso Prieto Materano, 36 years old, alias ‘Mamut’, was the ringleader of this criminal organization. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, where he was previously imprisoned in the Tocoron prisonone of the most dangerous prisons in that country.

In his statement to officials, ‘Mammoth‘ revealed that he entered Peruvian soil through the border with Brazil and that he was in prison for more than two and a half years. According to what he said, he was only captured that time for possessing a pistol without the regulation permit.

“Once they are located in our country, they begin their criminal activities, which is their model of life. They do not have another legal activity profile, their activity is that: the extortion and submission”, reiterated the colonel.

Videos posted on TikTok confirmed that tight materano and the other members of his gang drank the best drinks, rented huge houses with pools in exclusive areas south of the capital, and owned expensive clothes, jewelry, and slippers.

“All the criminal activity they carry out, hit men, prostitutionextortion and related crimes is to rent these well-known bunkers and yachts, where they hold their parties, giving free rein to their base instincts”, the head of the Homicide Division specified.

According to the Police, ‘Mamut’ ordered to bring the Venezuelan girls to Peru, capturing them -many times- with deceit. Some sex workers revealed that they were offered formal jobs, but when they reached their homeland they were put out on the streets.

“In your country there is part of your criminal organization that is dedicated to attracting women who need employment in our country. They capture them, scam them and here they place them in hostels, parks and crowded areas, such as north square”, asserted the colonel.

Police discovered that the mafia leader had erased a tattoo on his right arm so as not to be recognized by his adversaries.

To find his capture and that of eight other members of the criminal network, the Dirincri Homicide Division and the Special Investigation Brigade against Foreign Crime followed up for several days.

“I am innocent of what I am accused of. I am a merchant,” said ‘Mamut’ defiantly, as he entered the police headquarters on Avenida España, in Cercado de Lima.

Despite the fact that he denied the accusations, during the intervention the authorities found drugs, weapons, grenades and a large amount of ammunition, as well as a notebook with notes on the charges they made to the prostitutes. In a month with their extortions, only in one area, they could extract more than nine thousand soles.

“The notebooks that have been seized in this successful operation speak of large sums of money that fluctuate between 20 and 50 thousand soles,” Colonel Revoredo said.

The ‘sex mafias’ made up of Colombian and Venezuelan pimps are sowing terror in the streets of Cercado de Lima, among the shreds Cailloma and Zepitawhich have already become a ‘pink zone’.

It was learned that There are several mafias that have taken control of these streets led by Colombian citizens, but for months several women have begun to receive threatening messages from Venezuelan gangs demanding the payment of 200 to 300 soles per week to work “quietly” in this area.

The Venezuelan mafiasome members of the dangerous gang ‘Aragua Train’They seek to have control of this part of Lima because it is one of the areas where there is little police presence and it is very frequented by parishioners looking to spend a moment of pleasure.