British tourists are allegedly being drugged and given 'free' alcohol before having their bank accounts emptied by nightclub staff in Bucharest. Police launched a crackdown after multiple tourists reported similar attacks.
British tourists are allegedly being spiked and plied with 'free' alcohol before having their bank accounts emptied by nightclub staff in Bucharest.
Tourists were picked out while walking around the city's Old Town before being lured to clubs, according to prosecutors working on the case. Mobiles and banking apps were then unlocked using facial recognition, with people's cash transferred or payments made on card machines, it is alleged. Stacks of cash were found during one of the raids. Up to £70,000 is believed to have been taken in total
The alleged perpetrators are then claimed to have broken into an apartment where an American tourist was staying in April of last year. He was allegedly locked up for five days in a club in the Old Town while the defendants went on a spending spree, and only escaped when he managed to call for help through a crack in the window.Police executed arrest and search warrants and managed to recover stacks of cash and a Rolex watch, as well as a firearm.Police managed to recover a watch, which appears to be a Rolex, during the raids
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