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Human trafficker and prostitution ringleader subject of INTERPOL Red Notice sentenced to 30 years
Romanian national Ioan Clamparu, one of the targets of INTERPOL’s Operation Infra-Red, wanted for a range of offences including human trafficking and procuring for prostitution, has been sentenced by a Madrid court to 30 years in prison.
The 42-year-old was arrested in Spain in October 2011 following close collaboration between INTERPOL’s National Central Bureaus in Romania and Spain and INTERPOL’s Fugitive Investigative Support (FIS) unit at the General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France. He had been on the run for eight years from his native Romania, where he had been sentenced to 13 years for people and drugs trafficking.
Clamparu, accused of heading a human trafficking network which is believed to have resulted in more than 100 Romanian women being forced into prostitution in Spain, was one of 450 international fugitives targeted during INTERPOL’s Operation Infra-Red in July 2010.