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So what?  The debt-bondage financing model, not just the smuggling logistics, is the more durable target here — dismantling the money side denies the network the working capital to rebuild its boat and lorry operations after this round of sentences. Expect follow-on financial investigations in Vietnam itself, given the scale of funds already traced there.

So what?  A trafficking pipeline running victims from Romania into one of Europe's largest legal sex-work markets is exactly the kind of intra-EU corridor that free movement makes hard to police at any single border, which is why the coordinated prosecutorial structure — not just the arrest count — is the real story here. Watch whether Eurojust publishes victim-recovery numbers alongside the arrests, the detail that would show this was a rescue operation and not just an enforcement one.