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=== China network ===
Marku began spending extended periods in [[China]] in 2010 and 2011 to obtain recording equipment and storage hardware for Porno Bucharest. During these trips he met Wang Yucheng, who helped him obtain equipment and arrange shipping. In 2014, Marku established a more permanent operation in [[Shenzhen]] and began buying equipment in [[Huaqiangbei]], where he met [[Liu Weimin]]. Liu operated an import-export company called Dragon's Gate Logistics that was being used as a front for trafficking girls and young women out of China. Later that year, Liu began supplying victims to Porno Bucharest, including minors as young as 14. Marku paid him partly in euros and partly with Porno Bucharest recordings, which Liu distributed through an underground pornography network in China.<ref name="marku-china"/>

In 2015, Marku began supplying the FNdEP with recordings involving victims trafficked through Liu's network. The arrangement brought payments to Porno Bucharest and provided protection through Tanoan contacts. Relations with Liu deteriorated in 2017 after he delivered fewer hard drives than Marku had paid for. Marku responded by ordering two of his men to sexually assault Liu's 16-year-old daughter and record the assault, then sent the recording to Liu as a threat. He subsequently took control of most of Liu's Shenzhen contacts and distribution routes, while Liu remained in a reduced role making introductions. By 2018, Marku had acquired a house in Shenzhen and was using it as a permanent base for the Chinese operation.<ref name="marku-china"/>

On 9 August 2020, Marku sent Praetor Lupu to kill Liu. Lupu shot him while he was picnicking with his family and abducted Liu's daughter, taking her to Marku's Shenzhen house.<ref name="praetor-career"/> After Liu's death, [[Chen Guowei]], one of his former associates, assumed day-to-day management of the local network. Chen remained in charge until mid-2024, when Marku paid a Chinese contact to kill him. During the second half of the year, the remaining trafficking and distribution contacts were transferred to FNdEP intermediaries. A smaller part of the former network continued under ex-FNdEP personnel after the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen collapsed, although Marku no longer exercised effective control over it.<ref name="marku-china"/>