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DIICOT closes file on family from Carei
The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors will close the file of the family from Carei who had been accused of making their children assemble Kinder toys, as investigators decided that the minors had not been exploited by their parents.
DIICOT officials announced on Tuesday that investigations made by social workers showed that the children had not been exploited by parents as journalists from the British newspaper The Sun had written.
Statements made by children, the fact they had not skipped school and other evidences determined the prosecutors to reach the conclusion that it was not a penal case.
In November, they had opened the case following the aspects mentioned by The Sun about a family in Carei who had allegedly made their children work for 13 hours a day to assemble toys for Kinder eggs.
The journalists showed a Romanian family with a son aged 11 and a daughter aged 6 who assembled toys. The British journalists called the children “underaged slaves” in Romania paid 20 lei per day for 1,000 eggs with surprises. The toys were sent to a factory in Carei and then reached Hungary where they were chocolate coated.