The Buenos Aires Yoga School promised spiritual salvation, but former members and prosecutors say it pushed some female members into prostitution as it cultivated powerful friends.

Prosecutors say the organization exploited and drugged some of its female members, forcing them to sell their bodies and generating hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly from clients in Argentina and the United States. BAYS also ran an illicit clinic where some members were administered drugs to induce prolonged sleep, sometimes as a form of punishment, according to prosecutors.