Trafficking, exploitation and prostitution is widely present on Saint Martin, the prosecution says on the island.
The Inter Parliamentary Consultation Kingdom (IPKO) the prosecution had asked for the status of serious crime and human trafficking.
The OM Saint Martin is swamped by illegal immigrants. Estimates vary, but the OM starts from 40 000: as many as the number of inhabitants. Many of them are refugees from Haiti. They are used by people smugglers brought to St Maarten where they are often exploited by their employers.
The sex industry on the island is booming. The prosecution believes that there are about 200 sex workers are active in the club prostitution. Compared to the population is six times higher than in Amsterdam, where some 650 prostitutes working in the red light district.
Oversight
OM spokeswoman Karola Nie says the actual number of sex workers in St. Maarten is even higher, because the island is no picture of street prostitution.
Prostitution is not illegal in Sint Maarten. Operating a sex club in principle either. "But the scale is important. The larger the prostitution sector, the harder it is for regulators to grasp and hold on exploitation," Van Nie.
Money laundering
The Public Ministry says but have limited capacity to tackle the problems with human trafficking. To investigate massive money laundering of the casinos and the possible links with politicians come OM not even, as we saw during the IPKO.
Perhaps there is in change, now Netherlands has allocated 22.1 million euros to strengthen law enforcement. So come until 2017 fifty detectives from the Netherlands.
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