(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 20 NOV - Law enforcement authorities in
the United Kingdom and in Romania, supported by Europol and
Eurojust, have dismantled an organised crime group involved in
human trafficking for sexual exploitation, Europol said in a
statement today.
The criminal group, active since 2017, recruited the victims
in economically vulnerable regions in Romania, promising
significant material gains. The suspected criminals were often
in a fictitious relationship with the sexually exploited
victims, using the 'loverboy' method, "a way to ensure the
emotional dependence of the young women on the members of the
criminal group," Eurostat said.
The operation led to the arrests of nine suspected members of
the organized crime group in the United Kingdom, of three
individuals in Romania and to the identification of eight
potential victims of human trafficking, aged between 18 and 30
years old. (ANSA).
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