Four people have been charged with running brothels in Swansea. The charges allege brothels were active at 48 Norfolk Street and 57 Rhondda Street, both in Mount Pleasant, and at 2 Francis Street in Uplands.
Cristi-Denis Miclescu, 24, of Jones Terrace in Mount Pleasant, denies keeping a brothel at the Francis Street property between December 2022 and April 2023 or at the Norfolk Street address between January and October 2022. He is due to stand trial at Swansea Crown Court in July.
Robertina-Elena Iancu, 33, of Swansea High Street, has yet to enter a plea to a charge of keeping a brothel at the Norfolk Street property between January and October 2022. She is scheduled to appear at Swansea Crown Court next month.
Also yet to enter pleas are Florin Dumitru and Cristina Cobsaru who were due to appear at Swansea Magistrates’ Court last October but did not show. Arrest warrants were issued for both and remain active. Dumitru, 30, of St Helens Road in Sandfields, and Cobsaru, 28, of Eastern Avenue West in Chadwell Heath, London, are both accused of keeping a brothel at the Rhondda Street address between March 2021 and October 2022.
All four defendants are charged under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 with keeping a brothel “to which people resorted for practices involving prostitution”.
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