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According to DIICOT Craiova, on November 11, 2020, prosecutors from the Directorate of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Territorial Service of Craiova together with agents of the BCCO Craiova judicial police carried out a series of 23 house searches in Ilfov counties. , Brasov, Dolj, Gorj, Giurgiu, Olt, Sibiu and Valcea in a case aimed at dismantling an organized criminal group specialized in the commission of crimes of trafficking in persons and pimping.
“From the existing data it was established, in essence, that shortly after the dismantling of a group led by a prominent member of the underworld (a 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 penitentiary, between 2008 and 2011, together 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 for profit ” , shows DIICOT.
According to the prosecutors, under the coordination of the leader of the network, 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).
After they left the prison, shortly thereafter, another 12 suspects joined the criminal group, together with whom they recruited other victims, transferred them and sheltered them in western states (Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland), and forced them to engage in prostitution on their behalf, in various clubs. Victims who, after being transported abroad, refused to engage in prostitution were kidnapped and subjected to extreme violence (including rape), in order to be determined to not resist anymore ”, DIICOT also shows.
The investigation also shows that in most cases, the victims were kept in buildings rented by the leader of the group, were transported daily to places where they were forced to engage in prostitution, were permanently controlled / supervised and the money was taken entirely by group members.
After the investigation, it was established that 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 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 more easily exploited and controlled ”, DIICOT also shows.
According to prosecutors, there were also situations in which the perpetrators failed to control the victims, even after applying physical corrections, in which case to prevent them from fleeing or returning to their homes in the country, he requested various sums of money that the victims did not have the opportunity to pay, for which they were forced to continue prostitution.
Much of the sums of money thus obtained by the members of the group reached their leader, who later invested them in various real estate properties in the country and abroad.
The leader of the group used to collect protection fees from victims for legal / illegal activities, “his lieutenants” often resorted to blackmail to collect them. Taxes were collected on the occasion of festivals organized by him.
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