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Unprecedented raids were carried out Wednesday by anti-Mafia prosecutors and masked men at nearly 400 addresses across the country. A great action against underworld groups, after the COVID-19 pandemic caused several leaders to return to the country from Western Europe. About 400 suspects were detained for questioning. Among them, the businessman Alexandru Bodi, Bianca Dragusanu’s ex-husband, who was arrested. The man is suspected to be the right hand of a well-known underworld leader, Adrian Tâmplaru, who in the past worked with Ion Clămparu.
There were also raids on groups specialized in cigarette smuggling, which enriched themselves at the cost of some elderly people forced to store tobacco, under the threat of cruel beatings.
Dozens of drug trafficking suspects also found masks in their homes.
Migrant smuggling networks did not escape either, especially as the pandemic increased fees for migrants seeking a way to cross the Schengen area, via Romania.
Live meat trafficking, main file of the DIICOT action
“Good morning! The police! Sit down! Lying down! Lying down!” – This was the awakening, on Wednesday morning, for many members of the organized crime clans.
In the middle of the country, the police and gendarmes, coordinated by the DIICOT prosecutors, began at dawn the largest action to fight organized crime.
“We wanted to send a message, in the sense that the activity to combat organized crime is carried out in this epidemiological context, precisely to prevent the escalation of criminal phenomena in the field of organized crime. Important leaders of some groups that operate abroad returned to the country and we can say that they took advantage of their return to complete the investigation in the ongoing files, ”explained Mihaela Porime, DIICOT prosecutor, for Digi24.
In numbers, The mammoth action means 3,000 law enforcement officers, dozens of prosecutors, 368 searches started simultaneously in 24 separate cases, and nearly 400 suspects brought in for questioning.
Live meat trafficking is the main accusation in the star file, coordinated by prosecutors from Craiova. At the center of the accusations, a character known to the world for his striking luxury and famous girlfriends – businessman Alexandru Bodi, raised in the first hour of his home in Ilfov.
Who is Alexandru Bodi?
Alexandru Bodi became known after the tumultuous marriage to another common world figure, Bianca Drăgușanu. He is suspected of being Adrian Tâmplaru’s right hand man. Tâmplaru, the former lieutenant of the feared thief Ion Clămparu, sent 30 years behind bars after coordinating Europe’s largest pimping networks, allegedly recruited young women 10 years ago when he was imprisoned for other similar acts. After his release, he allegedly built a network for the export of girls, misled by the prospect of a better life across borders. The beatings were the main way to persuade them to cooperate, the investigators found.
Alex Bodi was arrested on Wednesday night by DIICOT Craiova prosecutors for constituting an organized criminal group, human trafficking and blackmail, in a case in which several thieves are accused of recruiting young women for prostitution through the “loverboy” method. According to some judicial sources cited by Agerpres, Alex Bodi recruited several young women whom he forced into prostitution, and was also charged with a crime of blackmail.
5,000 euros for an immigrant brought to Schengen
In just 3 months, more than 300 migrants were illegally transported to the Schengen area. They were recruited from the Serbian border, then housed in communes around Timisoara, and finally transported to Hungary in hidden truck compartments.
Due to the pandemic, circulation in Europe was severely restricted, so the Timișoara group made a huge profit due to the pandemic: the fee for a single immigrant fleeing Syria, Iraq or Turkey reached 5,000 euros.
Ethnobotanical. Profits of hundreds of thousands of euros in a few months
In the east of the country, police and prosecutors carried out more than a hundred searches on one of the largest local ethnobotanical trafficking groups. In just a few months, the members of the group managed to obtain hundreds of thousands of euros.
Law enforcement officials say the group was selling ethnobotanicals throughout the city. Constant, even in a barbershop and in various spas, such as Mangalia, Techirghiol, Tuzla and in Eforie.
The north of the country, the paradise of cigarette smugglers
Dozens of raids were carried out in the northern part of the country in the case of a group that controlled the black market for smuggled cigarettes.
The members of the group led a life worthy of gangster movies: they had considerable fortunes, luxury cars and large sums of money. During all this time, they exploited vulnerable people, who were forced, under threat, to store contraband cigarettes in their apartments.
Sibiu. Scammers who deceived more than 2,000 foreigners
In Sibiu, investigators discovered a network that harmed more than 2,000 Germans, Finns, Dutch, Spanish and Italians with fictitious advertisements for the sale of luxury goods posted online. More than one million euros they managed to take over the members of the group in just a few months. Money obtained from the naivety of some bona fide buyers was quickly invested in luxury homes and cars.
Tens of kilograms of drugs seized
An important part of the unstructured groups in the largest investigation operation were active in the area of drug trafficking. Networks operating in Dâmbovița, Covasna, Caraș Severin, Giurgiu and Buzău, among others, were unstructured. The masked men confiscated hundreds of ecstasy pills, tens of kilograms of cannabis, but also cocaine and heroin.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
