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Extensive searches of pimps in eight counties were conducted Wednesday. The pimping ring was run by an undercover lieutenant in prison, according to DIICOT. The girls were forced into prostitution in nightclubs, some were raped and others were sold.
Prosecutors from the Craiova Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate and Craiova police officers conducted 23 searches on Wednesday in Ilfov, Brașov, Dolj, Gorj, Giurgiu, Olt, Sibiu and Vâlcea counties for the dismantling of a organized criminal group specialized in human trafficking and pimping.
It is one of the actions that are part of the great operation in which 386 registrations are made on Wednesday morning.
Prosecutors for the Fight against organized crime and police from the special forces descended on Wednesday morning at the sumptuous house of businessman Alexandru Bodi, ex-husband of Bianca Drăgușanu.
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. The group led by the two young traffickers recruited from Romania to Western European countries, where they were forced into prostitution, obtaining significant sums of money from them.
It is established from existing data that, shortly after the dismantling of a group led by a prominent member of the underworld (a group specializing in human trafficking and pimping), the suspect in question (one of the undercover lieutenants), while in a prison, between 2008 and 2011, along with three other detainees, used social media to recruit young women who practiced prostitution.. Deceive them, either with the promise of a common future (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, determining factors for young women in the choice practicing the prostitution), the thieves 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 secondarily in blackmail (as a consequence of the payment of protection rights).
After they got out of jail shortly after, The criminal group was joined by 12 other suspects with whom they recruited other victims, transferred and sheltered them in western states (Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland) and forced them to practice prostitution on their behalf. , in various profile clubs.
According to DIICOT, the victims who, after being transported abroad, refused to engage in prostitution, were kidnapped and subjected to extreme violent (even some violations), to be determined not to resist.
In most cases, the victims were kept in buildings rented by the group leader, they were transported daily to places where they were forced to practice prostitution, they were permanently controlled / supervised, and the sums of money were taken entirely by members of the group.
Upon investigation, it was established that young women were operated 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, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria).
Some of the victims were sold to other traffickers inFor the purposes of exploitation, the people who took them also receive information about the victim, his behavior during the period in which he was exploited, information about the family, all in order to be blackmailed to be exploited and controlled more easily.
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 group leader used to perceive the victims. protection fees To carry out legal / illegal activities, “his lieutenants” often resort to blackmail for payment. Taxes were collected at parties organized by him.
At the DIICOT Craiova headquarters 18 people will be heard.
Publisher: Georgiana Marina
