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Prosecutors from the Directorate of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Territorial Service of Craiova, together with agents of the judicial police of the BCCO Craiova, carried out 23 house searches in the counties of Ilfov, Brașov, Dolj, Gorj, Giurgiu and Olt. Sibiu and Vâlcea in a case aimed at the disruption of an organized criminal group specialized in committing crimes of trafficking in persons and pimping.
It is established from the existing data, in essence, that shortly after the dissolution of a group led by a prominent member of the underworld (group specialized in human trafficking and pimping), the suspect in question (one of the lieutenants of the person mentioned above), while they were detained in a prison, between 2008 and 2011, along with three other detainees, they used social networks to recruit young women who practiced prostitution and, deceiving them, either with the promise of a common future (loverboy method), or with the identification of an advantageous job, respectively taking advantage of their state of vulnerability (precarious economic situation, naivety, lack of education, determining factors for these young women to choose to engage in prostitution), convinced them to prostitute themselves in their benefit. .
The girls were taken to western states.
Under the leader’s coordination, the foundations were laid for a criminal group specialized mainly in human trafficking, child trafficking and pimping and secondarily in blackmail (as a consequence of the payment of protection rights).
Shortly after leaving the prison, 12 other suspects joined the criminal group, with whom they recruited other victims, transferred them and sheltered them in western states (Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland), and forced them to practice prostitution in his favor in various clubs.
The victims who, after being transported abroad, refused to engage in prostitution were kidnapped and subjected to extreme violence (including rape), so that they would decide not to resist.
In most cases, the victims were kept in buildings rented by the group’s leader, transported daily to places where they were forced to engage in prostitution, were permanently controlled / supervised and the money was taken entirely by members of the group.
After the investigation, it was established that the young women were exploited mainly in discotheques or rented premises in Germany, within the cities of Berlin, Bonn, Stuttgart and Frankfurt (Germany), but also in other European countries (Italy, Spain). , Great Britain, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria).
Some of the victims were sold to other traffickers for the purpose of exploitation, the people who took them also received information about the victim, his behavior during the period of exploitation, information about the family, all in order to be blackmailed in order to be exploited and controlled more easily.
Pimps beat up girls
There were also situations in which the perpetrators failed to have control over the victims, even after the application of physical corrections, in which case to prevent them from fleeing or returning to their homes in the country, they requested various amounts. of money that the victims did not have the opportunity to pay, for which they were forced to continue their prostitution activity.
A large part of the sums of money thus obtained by the members of the group went to their leader, who later invested them in various properties in the country and abroad.
The leader of the group used to charge protection fees to victims for carrying out legal / illegal activities, “his lieutenants” used to resort to blackmail to collect them. Taxes were collected at parties organized by him.
18 people were brought in for questioning
A number of 18 people will be transferred to DIICOT – Craiova Territorial Service headquarters for the hearing.
The action had the support of the policemen of the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and the combatants of the IGPR’s Interventions and Special Actions Service.
The searches involved police officers from the fight against organized crime in Brașov, Olt, Gorj, Sibiu, Vâlcea, Giurgiu, special action police officers from the LEI Dolj, LEI Olt, IPJ Giurgiu, as well as gendarmes.
We specify that throughout the criminal process, suspects and defendants benefit from the procedural rights and guarantees provided by the Criminal Procedure Code, as well as the presumption of innocence.
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