Hungarian family charged with trafficking Hungarian women to Germany in large-scale prostitution scheme

The public prosecutor’s office of Bács-Kiskun County has pressed charges against 6 men and 5 women, all residents of Kecskemét, in south-eastern Hungary, for prostituting Hungarian women living in poverty to Germany and denying them their earnings, the office said on Tuesday.

The traffickers, all from the same family, lured women, mostly from eastern Hungary, to Germany with promises of a better life between 2020-2022, the statement said, adding that one of the victims was a minor.

The investigation was conducted in cooperation with the German authorities.

The defendants face imprisonment, while the prosecutor’s office has also proposed seizing properties and cars from the family.

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