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🚨 Breaking News 🚨

OK, we have some new updates on the Tate case from DIICOT, with a total number of victims (35) and details of the alleged crimes. Long thread, but worth it.

Prosecutors from the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism have ordered the detention of 6 defendants for serious crimes including forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking, and more.

⚖️ Update on the Investigation ⚖️

New revelations have emerged from the criminal investigation documents. Foreign and Romanian citizens allegedly formed an organized criminal group in Romania, focusing on human trafficking. The group exploited vulnerable individuals,

producing and distributing pornographic materials for profit.

Two of the defendants, using the loverboy method and taking advantage of the obvious state of vulnerability of 34 injured persons. 35 is the TOTAL number, including the minor.

💰 Profits from Exploitation 💰

The suspects reportedly generated over $2.8 million and 887,000 tokens from the sexual exploitation of victims.

Re the minor: from 2014 to December 2021, one of the defendants (foreign citizen), by misleading (the loverboy method) and taking advantage of the obvious vulnerability of a minor victim (17 years old, foreign citizen), transported and sheltered her in several locations located

on the territories of Great Britain and Romania, where he forced her to perform sexual acts in order to produce pornographic materials and distribute them on various websites.

Material benefits valued at over 1.5 million US dollars were obtained from the criminal activity, which the defendant appropriated in full.

Also in his charge, it was noted that starting from December 2020, he repeatedly had sexual relations and acts with a minor victim, aged 15.

In order to hide or dissimulate the illicit origin of the money resulting from the commission of the crime of human trafficking, between December 2023 and July 2024, the two defendants purchased and registered four luxury cars in the name of close people.

At the same time, in an attempt to prevent the discovery of the truth, they took actions of a clearly intimidating nature and acts of corruption against injured persons and witnesses in order to induce them not to give statements or to give false statements in this file.

With regard to two other defendants (Romanian citizens), from the conducted investigations, it emerged that they acted with the aim of hindering the investigations in this criminal case.