"Sextortion’ ring that blackmailed men seeking prostitutes may have claimed 4,000 victims
External Link/Members OnlyAmong the around 30 people accused of allegedly being part of the criminal network there's a La Liga footballer, Levante UD defender Toño García.
Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, oversee the case given the elevated number of victims and its wide reach across “practically all of the national territory.”
The Civil Guard described the network as an “organized criminal group” aimed at blackmailing people who had contracted, or tried to contract, the services of prostitutes via the website pasion.com.