An operation by DIICOT prosecutors at the Club “The Buddhist” from Bucharest revealed a group led by the owner of the restaurant himself, which allegedly obtained over 19 million lei from human trafficking and pimping. Among those caught in the act is the actor Vlad Marinescu, confirmed judicial sources.
Vlad Marinescu is well-known in the nightclub environment “Vlad”being the son of Nicolae Marinescu – “Nah”the former patron of the club “The Buddhist”deceased about seven years ago.
Nicolae Marinescu died in April 2019, following a stroke, and the business was allegedly taken over by his son, writes Cancan.ro. Later, information circulated that Vlad Marinescu would have tried to sell the club, but the transaction did not materialize.
The Buddhist Club has been involved in several controversies over the years. At one point, the former interim mayor of Sector 5, Dan Croitoru, publicly stated that the place would have been registered at the town hall as an NGO, although it was operating as a night club, and the authorities were announcing checks.
The actor, known for big productions in Romania
Vlad Marinescu is known for the roles he played in productions such as “Daddy”, “Vlad”, “Professor”, “No one escapes alive”, “Ana, you were written in my DNA” and in the second season of the series “Pit”under development.
Born in 1990, Vlad Marinescu graduated from Hyperion University between 2009 and 2012, attended classes at Let It Go Acting Studio and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 2022–2023.
We recall that “The Buddhist” from Bucharest was stormed by DIICOT prosecutors and police officers of the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime on Thursday morning, who are carrying out extensive searches in a file regarding the commission of the crimes of forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking, pimping and money laundering.
From the evidence administered in the case, it emerged that, starting in 2018, four suspects constituted, within the radius of the city of Bucharest, an organized crime group, to which, over time, other members joined, in order to obtain large sums of money by exploiting young women. The girls were recruited online through job ads as dancers, but in reality they were forced to practice prostitution in the night club in Sector 5 of Bucharest.
