Hombriend searches, illustrative photography. Inquam Photos / Mălina Norocea
Police and prosecutors carry out 46 searches on Thursday in a file in which the activity of an criminal group is investigated that aimed to obtain money from practicing the concubines, the spouses, the people from the entourage and victims of human trafficking.
Judicial sources declared, for Agerpres, that they were targeted in the file would be members of the “buttons” clan. This clan has also been targeted in the past for numerous serious crimes, including in 2017 and 2021
According to a statement of the Romanian Police, the police officers of the Organized Crime Combat Directorate-the service for combating organized crime groups, together with the prosecutors of the Directorate for Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism-Central Structure, conducts 46 house searches in Giurgiu and Bucharest, Establishing an organized criminal group, pimping, human trafficking, money laundering, illegal access to a computer system and favoring the perpetrator.
From the research carried out, it turned out that, in Giurgiu county, a group of organized crime (consisting of three structures was constituted by summing over 30 members), in order to obtain considerable amounts of money from facilitating prostitution by several women (concubines, wives, people from the environment and victims of human trafficking).
“They would have provided their transport (by land or air) from Romania to the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the United Arab Emirates, where they would have rented apartments, would have distributed online, on profile pages, ads for sexual services and would have facilitated their travels to customers,” the IGPR said (about 3.5 million euros) would have been predominantly collected by the members of the organized criminal group who, in order to conceal their unlawful origin, would have invested them in the purchase of luxury cars (usually on behalf of some family members) and the financing of some companies.
Also, from the analysis of the probative material it turned out that those concerned would have financed aesthetic interventions for the young people involved in prostitution activities, in order to maximize the earnings obtained from their operation.
At the same time, the quoted source mentions that the representatives of the three structures of the organized criminal group would have identified and attracted new members and have exercised permanent control over the people who practiced prostitution, constantly relating with them.
“In order to achieve the proposed purpose, one of the three structures in the composition of the organized criminal group would have benefited, for a period of time, by the support of a research that has the capacity of policeman. According to the criminal prosecution documents, he would have received money transmitted by the young people placed by the members of the group to practice the prostitution in the state, or Information not stored in advertising, regarding possible risks or problems that could have occurred in relation to the illicit activities ”, shows IGPR.
More than 30 warrants are being executed, the hearings will be held at the headquarters of the Directorate for Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure.
