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Alex Bodi, Bianca Dragusanu’s ex-husband, was arrested Thursday night in the open case for human trafficking and pimping. Along with Bodi, seven other people were arrested.
Alex Bodi is charged with human trafficking, pimping and blackmail. According to some judicial sources, Alex Bodi allegedly recruited several young women whom he forced into prostitution, also being accused of a blackmail crime, writes Agerpres.
On Wednesday morning, DIICOT Craiova prosecutors, together with judicial police officers, carried out 23 house searches in Ilfov, Brasov, Dolj, Gorj, Giurgiu, Olt, Sibiu and Valcea counties, in a case aimed at to dismantle an organized criminal group. specialized in human trafficking and pimping. It was an unprecedented operation. One of the searches took place at Alex Bodi’s home, after which he was picked up by masked men, taken away for questioning, and then detained.
Prison-run pimping network
Prosecutors sought to dismantle a human trafficking and pimping network, led by a thief’s lieutenant, in prison, according to DIICOT. The girls were forced into prostitution in nightclubs, some were raped and others were sold.
According to a DIICOT statement, based on existing data, it was established that shortly after the dismantling of a group specialized in human trafficking and pimping, led by a prominent member of the underworld, one of his “lieutenants” while he was imprisoned in a prison, between 2008 and 2011, three other detainees used social networks to recruit young women who practiced prostitution and, deceiving them, either with the promise of a common future (the “loverboy” method) or with the identification of an advantageous job, and taking advantage of their state of vulnerability – precarious economic situation, naivety, lack of education – they convinced them to prostitute themselves for their benefit.
Under the leader’s coordination, the foundations were laid for a criminal group specialized, mainly, in human trafficking, child trafficking and pimping and, secondly, in blackmail, as a consequence of the payment of protection rights.
Girls taken for “export” and turned into sex slaves
Shortly after leaving the penitentiary, 12 other suspects joined the criminal group, in addition to recruiting other victims, transporting them and housing them in the western states – Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland – and forced them to practice prostitution in his favor in various clubs. After being transported abroad, young women who refused to prostitute themselves were kidnapped and subjected to extreme violence, including rape, to be determined not to resist, prosecutors say.
In most cases, the victims were kept in buildings rented by the group’s leader, transported daily to places where they were forced to prostitute themselves, they were constantly controlled and supervised, and the money was taken entirely by members of the group.
Research has shown that young women have been exploited mainly in discotheques or rented premises in Berlin, Bonn, Stuttgart and Frankfurt (Germany), but also in other European countries (Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria) .
Prosecutors allege that some young women were sold to other traffickers, the people who took them also received information about the victim, her behavior during the period in which she was exploited, information about the family, to be blackmailed, exploited and controlled more easily .
The girls’ money, invested in real estate.
According to DIICOT, there were also situations in which the aggressors failed to have control over the victims, even after applying physical corrections, in which case, to prevent them from fleeing or returning to their homes in the country, they demanded various amounts of money. that the victims did not have the opportunity to pay, so they were forced to continue with the prostitution activity.
Much of the money obtained from the practice of prostitution was invested by the leader of the group in various buildings in the country and abroad.
On the other hand, the leader of this 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 festivals.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
