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Țăndărei Human Trafficking Network
In 2004 two inspectors from Westmeister Police in central London discovered that some Romanian Roma groups were comitting a significant number of low level crimes. Chief Inspector Bernie Gravett and Inspector Colin Carswell found out that offences such as begging, robbery, shoplifting, fraud and credit card cloning were being comitted by young persons. Even children under 7 years old were spotted stealing phones and handbags from coffee shop clients. Later on it was found that Romanian Roma Organised Crime Networks were the heads behind these crimes and that they have built a large network of child trafficking. I examined the articles, investigations and reports from different years as the case evolved and I also analyzed both British and Romanian press perspectives regarding the Roma crime system investigations.

After nine years of investigations, the 26 defendants in the Țăndărei file case were declared innocent by the Romanian justice system. In recent years, the town of Țăndărei has gained notoriety not only for the luxurious palaces built by the Roma, but also for the scandals regarding the network responsible for the trafficking of minors. In 2010, the Romanian and British authorities identified over 160 Roma children, victims of organized human trafficking. Subsequently, an agreement on the establishment of a joint investigation team for the capture of traffickers was signed, the action taking place in Ialomița County, in Țăndărei.

According to investigations, members of the criminal network were recruiting Roma minors who were illegally crossing the border into the UK, forcing them to beg or commit street crimes. During nine years of investigations and investigations, the British record 272 victims of the rescued network, 106 people arrested for human trafficking, tax evasion and money laundering and 120 convicted defendants, while Romanians record 26 defendants, 9 years of trial and no culprit in the first instance, according to the newspaper Libertatea. Both Romanian and British publications informed the public about the Ţăndărei case through news and journalistic investigations.