Trafficking ring preyed on vulnerable Romanian teens - police

Men and women were taken from Romania and forced to work for little pay in Budapest.

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For more than a decade, traffickers brought men and women from Romania to the Hungarian capital, promising them relatively high salaries and good housing.

They were instead put to work for little pay, mainly at a waste-recycling plant near Budapest, according to details of the investigation made public on Friday.

Five men and three women were detained as part of the investigation, and most of them come from the same family originally from central Romania, say police.

More than 30 victims have been identified. They lived 25 to a room in unhygienic conditions, and were forced to work at least 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for minuscule pay.

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