 Walter Miranda, who had been removed as chief of the Public Morality unit following Cabrera's complaint because he had been providing protection to brothels that trafficked underage girls and foreign women, as well as extorting bribes from street-based sex workers, continued to advance through the ranks.By 2012 he had become head of Regional Unit II, which gave him control of all provincial police forces in the city of Rosario.The brothels in the area around the bus terminal that he had been protecting were still there.