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Târgu Mureș is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th largest Romanian city, with 116,033 inhabitants as of the 2021 census. It lies on the Mureș River, the second longest river in Romania.

Romanian court confirms the acquittal of the British drug trafficking suspect

Feb 16,2020 9:28 am

The BBC's Panorama investigated the begging of the London child, associated with The Police probe, 2011

A Romanian court confirmed the acquittals of 25 men accused of running a major child-trafficking operation.

The Men were raids, arrested in 2010 as part of a major joint action with The British Police where the children were rescued in London.

The Men were begging accused of running a scheme, where the children were sent across The Continent , to and steal.

Human Rights organizations criticized on Monday the decision puts an end to the almost-decade-long legal saga.

The Men were previously acquitted by a lower court, which said in February and the court of appeal, based in Targu Mures , the Prosecutor's office had failed to provide evidence.

they were originally arrested in 2010, along with another man who has since died, in raids with The Help of The British Police .

they had laundering charges for human trafficking and criminal exploitation of More Than 160 unnamed children, as members of an organized criminal network and the money.

The case centered around The Village of Ţăndărei in Southeast Romania. The victim and suspect were members of the Romanian Roma Community .

Bernie Gravett, who led The British study, told the BBC that he had personally seen, "truckloads" of evidence in Romanian civil servants in 2010.

"I know The Evidence is there, I've seen it with My Own Eyes ," he said.

"We condemned 120 people in the UK of the trafficking of children, neglect of children, exploitation of children, Money Laundering , benefit fraud, and A Number of other crimes. Romania have not convicted a single Person. "

According to Europol, the Joint investigation team worked with the London Metropolitan Police and the Romanian National Police in 2008.

The 2010 operation involved 300 Romanian and British Police officers and about 30 raids, AFP reports.

After a RAID in Ilford, East London ,

The Police against the time, said to have been sent proceeds from The Criminal enterprise, to Finance back, luxury lifestyle in Ţăndărei.

Silvia Tabusca, coordinator of the Human Security programme at the European centre for Legal teaching and research, was quoted as saying that the case was a "huge failure" of the Romanian judiciary.

"We are talking here on The One hand, an extremely vulnerable group of people who need to be protected, a very large group of Roma children. On The Other hand, the transnational organized crime that threatens the entire security in Europe," She Said .

The first acquittal, issued nine years after The Men first arrested, caused A Number of NGOs to international bodies, "remind Romania of its responsibility" in relation to trafficking in human beings.



romania, metropolitan police service, human trafficking

Source of news: bbc.com

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