Dozens of women from Santiago, Valverde, Esperanza, Puerto Plata, La Vega, Moca, and San Francisco de Macoris are complaining that they were cheated by a mafia that charged between RD$150,000 and RD$170,000 each, promising to take them to The Netherlands, according to a report in El Caribe. However, they were abandoned in Suriname. They said that they had paid a woman in Santiago who had contacts in several air terminals, but instead of going to The Netherlands, Switzerland, and other destinations, they ended up in Suriname where they were received by a Chinese national known as “Kinito”. They claim they were forced to practice prostitution there. El Caribe tried to track down the woman in Santiago to no avail. Judicial authorities in Santiago are investigating the case.