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A grooming gang who sexually exploited 10 vulnerable women were jailed today for a total of 68 years. ‌

Mircea Cumpanasoiu, 37, Christian Urlateanu, 41, Alexandra Bugonea, 35, Remus Stan, 35, and Cataline Dobre, 45, were convicted following a six-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow today. ‌

Their victims included a woman who was trafficked into prostitution - and then threatened to be banished up a tree because she was not earning enough. ‌

Another was effectively gang-raped by three of the predators.

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The Romanian-born gang - based at flats in Dundee - left a number of those they preyed upon hooked on crack cocaine leading them to be blackmailed into sex. ‌

Ringleader Cumpanasoiu – known as Mario - was guilty of 15 charges, Urlateanu nine, his

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