What official records exist regarding investigations into human trafficking at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base between 2010 and 2016?

1. What the Department of Defense and defence-related studies actually document

A Defense Department–adjacent monograph cited in the materials records a reported allegation that the director of a Black Sea Area Support Team forward‑deployed to Mihail Kogălniceanu “solicited underage girls at nearby brothels,” but that source frames the episode as a cited claim within wider scholarship on trafficking and military contracting rather than as an official criminal case record or prosecution outcome taking place in 2010–2016 ^[1]. The monograph thus functions as an academic or policy citation of an allegation, not as an official investigative record establishing charges, investigations, or judicial findings tied to the 2010–2016 period ^[1].

2. Historical official inquiries at MK concern rendition and detention, not trafficking in 2010–2016

Multiple reputable organizations and news outlets documented official inquiries and government denials tied to alleged secret detention and CIA rendition activity at MK in the early 2000s; Human Rights Watch, The New York Times–style reporting, and contemporaneous Pentagon responses relate to alleged clandestine detention flights and possible use of the base around 2003–2005 ^{[2] [4] [3]}. Those records and investigative reporting are concrete and public but concern alleged extraordinary rendition and detention — not documented human‑trafficking criminal investigations at MK during 2010–2016 ^{[2] [4] [3]}.

3. Allegations surfaced later in media and social posts, but are not themselves "official records"

Claims that emerged after 2016 — including accusations published or circulated online in 2019 and later tying specific individuals or charities to trafficking at MK — appear in social posts and secondary reporting (for example, a 2019 accusation attributed to Ana Maria Nuciu and later blog and social-media treatments), but those items are not presented in the provided corpus as formal prosecutorial filings, DIICOT (Romania’s anti‑organized crime directorate) public case records, or U.S. criminal‑investigation disclosures for 2010–2016 ^{[5] [6]}. The material here treats those allegations as claims and reportage rather than as documentation of an official Romanian or U.S. investigation from 2010–2016 ^{[5] [6]}.

4. Romanian anti‑organized crime statements and the disinformation context

Romanian authorities and DIICOT have been cited elsewhere when debunking or distancing U.S. troops from other high‑profile crimes (for example, DIICOT statements related to the Caracal murders are referenced to refute alleged U.S. involvement), and Georgetown analysis warns the Kogălniceanu narratives have been entangled with disinformation campaigns — underscoring that provenance and official verification matter when claims circulate online ^[7]. The supplied sources therefore suggest caution: media and social allegations have circulated but the corpus contains no DIICOT or Romanian judicial docket entries proving a formal trafficking probe at MK in 2010–2016 ^[7].

5. What the supplied sources do not show and what remains unanswered

The assembled reporting documents older official inquiries about rendition (early 2000s) and cites a DoD monograph that repeats a claimed incident, but the sources do not include a Romanian prosecutor’s indictment, a DIICOT case file, a U.S. military criminal‑investigation report, or court judgments explicitly opening or concluding a trafficking investigation linked to MK between 2010 and 2016. If such official records exist, they are not present in the provided material; this review cannot confirm their existence or content beyond what the cited documents show ^{[1] [2] [3]}.