Editing Vladut Ionuț (section)

== Arrest and execution ==
As the Bucharest Butchers began to collapse, Vladut tried to destroy records identifying trafficking victims and the routes used to move them. On 30 April 2025, he burned paper ledgers at a holding property in Bucharest and ordered his subordinates to smash its storage drives. Copies of the records had been kept elsewhere and survived. Romanian authorities arrested him in Bucharest on 6 May 2025.

The [[Bucharest Tribunal]] had opened on 1 May 2025 and received the surviving records from properties under Vladut's command.<ref name="tribunal-proceedings" /> On 22 August 2025, it assigned him life imprisonment for his role in the Bucharest Butchers and its trafficking system. The decision also covered the killings and sexual violence documented in the initial evidence.

Additional files entered the tribunal record on 3 December 2025. They identified Vladut as the direct perpetrator of killings that had previously been attributed only to his trafficking crews. The same files established that he had ordered the destruction of evidence before his arrest and documented offences missing from the initial decision. The tribunal reconsidered his classification and assigned death on 12 December 2025. Vladut was executed by firing squad in Bucharest one week later, aged 41.