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AN ALLEGED member of a Swindon prostitution ring has appeared before the magistrates.
Gigi Ciobanica, 43, is accused of facilitating the travel of women with a view to them being sexually exploited by paying for flights from Romania, collecting a woman from the airport and driving her to "known brothels".
Prosecutors also claim he collected the earnings of another woman and sent money back to Romania.
The offences are alleged to have been committed between 2015 and 2018.
Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning, Ciobanica, of Grasmere Road, Birmingham, entered no pleas to charges of arranging or facilitating the travel of another person with a view to exploitation, conspiracy to arrange travel, possession of criminal property and money laundering.