Sorin Serbu was said to have made millions from drug and prostitution racketsThe murder of a powerful Romanian gangster threatens to prompt an underworld war to control a lucrative sex trafficking market. Sorin Serbu was beaten to death by masked men carrying baseball bats two weeks after he is said to have been involved in a fight with a rival Romanian gangster. Serbu, 36, was left in a pool of blood outside the Global Bar in Ilford, east London, in the early hours of Sunday after a music gig. He was taken to an east London hospital but died of his injuries. The gangster had a history of running drugs and prostitutes into Europe and made…

Source: The Times November 16, 2017 00:06 UTC