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Follow a communiqué no. 1 of 12.04.2022 and the interest shown by media representatives, The Bureau of Information and Public Relations within the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism is empowered to bring to the attention of the public the following: On 29.12.2022, prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure together with police officers from the Bucharest Organized Crime Brigade have implemented 5 home search warrants in a case where research is carried out in respect of the commission of offenses of setting up an organized criminal group, trafficking in human beings and rape. In this case, it was noted that, at the beginning of 2021, 4 suspects ( two British citizens and two Romanian citizens ) constituted a criminal group organized in order to commit on the Romanian territory, but also of other states, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, of the crime of human trafficking. Injured persons were recruited by British citizens by misleading the intention to establish a marriage / concubine relationship and the existence of real feelings of love ( the loverboy method ). They were subsequently transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov County where, by exercising acts of physical violence and mental coercion ( by intimidation, constant surveillance, control and invocation of alleged debts ), were sexually exploited by group members by forcing pornographic events to be produced and broadcast through social media platforms of such a character and by subjecting them to execution work, forcibly,in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting of the amounts of money obtained as a result of access to the materials by users. To date, 6 injured persons have been identified who have been sexually exploited by the organized criminal group. The rape offense was noted that in March 2022, an injured person was forced on two different occasions, by a suspect through the exercise of physical violence and psychological pressure to have sex. At the headquarters of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – The Central Structure were led, for hearing, 4 people about whom there is a reasonable suspicion that they are involved in the criminal activity. Following the hearings, the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – The Central Structure ordered the detention measure for a period of 24 hours compared to the 4 persons. The activities were also attended by police officers from the Ilfov Organized Crime Service and the Anti-Trafficking Service, as well as gendarmes from the Special Gendarmerie Intervention Brigade. We specify that during the entire criminal process, the investigated persons benefit from the procedural rights and guarantees provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as the presumption of innocence.

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