Razvan Toscu is a corrupt Romanian diplomat and a serial rapist and pimp of "mail-order brides".
History[]
A Romanian diplomat, Toscu abused his position to smuggle Slavic women into the U.S. and advertised by Valentina Bilescu, a madam under Toscu's employment. If the women and girls rebelled, Toscu would rape them to force them to continue to abide.
Oksana Parulis is one such victim of prostitution, whom her sisters, twins Ava Parulis and Irina Burton, tirelessly fought for to save her. Ava and Irina would steal money and jewelry from Irina's husband, socialite George, to pay out the price to take Oksana into their custody. Toscu demanded more and thus started raping Ava, forcing her into submission with a collar and leash, presumably as part of rescuing Oksana.
One time, Toscu kidnapped and raped Irina, either out of mistaking her for Ava or wanting to torture both twin sisters. Irina never said who she really was to protect Ava, and, either out of fearing the police, which could've been from realizing about Irina, from assuming she was Ava and being done with the sexual abuse, or from Irina's resistance regardless, Toscu strangled Irina to death. She was left in a garbage bag next to the Burtons' trash for pickup to frame George. Ava saw this and, to bury her past and still try to reach Oksana, buried Irina under the hydrangea's of the garden of the neighbors, Brad and Pam Stanton, then taking on Irina's identity for the next three years.
Irina was found when her new neighbors, the Sawyers, were installing a Jacuzzi where the garden was. Ava was tracked and talked about herself as if she were her sister, but she never revealed the prostitution. She was found out by Irina having different dental work, but by then she made it to Bilescu's brothel in hopes of paying off the debt for Oksana. She and Bilescu were arrested, and Oksana was rescued. From there, they got Toscu's name. He was confronted with the pictures of Irina and being told of his mistake of her being the twin sister. However, he only remarked that her death was unfortunate and denied the prostitution allegations, before he tried to question the twin sister's credibility because of her assuming her sister's identity. The detectives soon realize that they couldn't arrest him without cold hard evidence, due to his diplomatic immunity.
M.E. Taylor found it in testing plant particles on Irina's underwear, which was a precise match for the orchids Toscu loves to cultivate. Reporting to his superiors, the SVU detectives successfully got his immunity nullified, then met him before his scheduled flight. Unaware of his new circumstances, Toscu taunted the detectives on how he'll be out of the country but was surprised when they proceeded to arrest him and revealed that his immunity was revoked, as well as tell him of the evidence against him before they take the surprised criminal away.
Ava and George testified at the trial, and Toscu was found guilty of murder, serial rape, human and sex trafficking, and racketeering, being sentenced to life without parole. (SVU: "Parasites")
Known Victims[]
- Numerous unnamed international women and girls (all kidnapped, repeatedly raped, and sold for more trafficking)
- Oksana Parulis (kidnapped, repeatedly raped, and attempted to sell; was rescued)
- Ava Parulis (repeatedly raped and attempted to kill; murdered her sister Irina by mistake)
- Irina Burton (kidnapped, repeatedly raped, and strangled to death)
- George Burton (attempted to frame for Irina's rape and murder by her corpse on his property; Ava buried her body in the neighbors' garden instead)