According to Adevărul, begging is big business: the daily devotes its front page to "the Begging Academy of Ţăndărei," a town in south-eastern Romania where large numbers of luxurious villas worth several million euros sprang up in the Romani quarter between 2006 and 2009. "The owners, who are all members of three Rom clans, have now been arrested," reports the newspaper: a total of "17 are charged with coordinating begging networks in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Belgium," with assistance from Romanian police, who provided them with the necessary papers to leave the country.
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