Inside ICE: Volume 3, Issue 1

Two Arrested In International Child Sex Tourism Case

PHILADELPHIA—A New Jersey hotel owner and an individual in the Republic of Moldova have been arrested as a result of an international child sex tourism investigation conducted by ICE agents and authorities in Romania and Moldova.

According to an indictment returned in Philadelphia, Anthony Mark Bianchi, 44, of North Wildwood, N.J., traveled from Philadelphia to Cuba, the Republic of Moldova and Romania to engage in illicit sexual conduct with males younger than 16 years of age. ICE agents arrested Bianchi at his home on January 11. On the same day, Moldavian police also arrested Ion Gusin, who allegedly served as Bianchi’s translator.

In one instance, Bianchi allegedly took a young male to a Romanian pub, gave the boy wine until he became intoxicated and engaged in illicit sexual conduct with him.

The arrests of Bianchi and Gusin were the result of a joint international investigation led by ICE agents from Philadelphia, with assistance from the ICE Attaché in Vienna, Austria; the ICE Cyber Crimes Center in Virginia; Romanian and Moldavian police and prosecutors; and the Polish Border Police. The U.S. Diplomatic Security Service; the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office; and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey provided critical assistance to the investigation.

The arrest of Bianchi and Gusin is the latest enforcement actions under ICE’s Operation Predator, which protects children by investigating and presenting for prosecution pedophiles, Internet predators, human traffickers, international sex tourists and other predatory criminals.

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