内容摘要："took away parking spaces and single yellow lines", leaving no space for parking at night times.

"took away parking spaces and single yellow lines", leaving no space for parking at night times.

Valentin Badica, 39, Cristian Damaschin, 35, Ionica Badica, 34, Mihaela Matei, 28, Ionut-leonard Bahica, 38, Adrian Cioroaba, 33 and Iuliana Mavroian, 41, were sentenced at the hearing on Friday.Judge Peter Hampton said: "The purpose of the whole business was to make money.

"You all, in differing degrees, financially benefited from your control of women in the sex industry."The court heard the head of the conspiracy was a man who had since died, with the seven defendants having differing roles in the gang.Flights were paid for the women to come from Romania between 2016 to 2019, with those involved subsequently met at airports.

They were then taken to houses and lived "with their controllers", the court heard.Valentin Badica along with his brother Ionica Badica managed the Doncaster franchise, the judge said, and rented three properties in the city.

The court heard Valentin paid £3,000 in travel costs for women to come to the UK and would sometimes accompany them on flights.

His partner Mihaela Matei worked as a receptionist for the business and was an "essential connection between clients and the women", the court heard.“Even if we got involved in the war this would be a path to escalation. Why? Because you, the Anglo-Saxons, would immediately say that another country had got involved on one side... so Nato troops would be deployed to Ukraine.”

I ask him whether Vladimir Putin has ever asked Lukashenko to provide Belarussian troops for the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.“Never. Neither he, nor [former Defence Minister] Sergei Shoigu, nor the current Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has ever raised that question.”

But Belarus has played a part in Russia’s war. In February 2022 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched, partly, from Belarusian territory. Why did the country’s leader allow the Kremlin to do that?“How do you know I gave permission for Belarusian territory to be used?” Lukashenko asks me.