Slavery case in a grocery store in Cluj-Napoca. Owners arrested for human trafficking

Two owners of a grocery store in Cluj-Napoca have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking after forcing two victims to work for them. One of the victims, a 61-year-old man, was exploited for two years and died. The other person was forced to work until the beginning of this month.

It is about a 48-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man who are now being investigated for human trafficking, after taking advantage of the vulnerability of two people whom they forced through physical and mental violence to work for them at an aprozar. According to representatives of the Romanian Police, the first victim, a 61-year-old man, was recruited in 2022 and for two years was forced to work in inhumane conditions until he died.

Police explain that, in 2022, the suspects, a husband and wife, took advantage of the vulnerability of a person with a precarious financial situation and no

The operation began with a simple search of the countryside: the arrested exploited their victims, forcing them to work for compensation of 5-6 euros per hour, ten hours a day, seven days a week. The two, in addition to illegal intermediation and labor exploitation, are also challenged with aiding illegal immigration

Trei angajați de la un centru de plasament din Soroca, plasați în arest. Sunt învinuiți de trafic de ființe umane

Trei angajați ai unui centru de plasament temporar pentru persoane cu dizabilități au fost plasați în arest. Aceștia sunt învinuiți de trafic de ființe umane și determinarea părților vătămate la depunerea de declarații mincinoase. Potrivit Procuraturii Generale, două persoane au fost plasate în arest preventiv pentru 30 de zile, iar a treia persoană – în arest la domiciliu pentru aceeași perioadă.

A man and a woman have been arrested after allegedly recruiting a 61-year-old who they forced, through mental and physical violence, to work for two years at an aprozar in Cluj-Napoca. Meanwhile, the victim died, and the two recruited another person, whom they exploited in the same way, until March this year.