An Army Captain was caught in a joint FBI – PBI (Philippine Bureau of Investigations) operation entitled “Operation Swift Traveler,” which sought to locate and apprehend adults seeking to travel to the Philippines to have sex with minors and trafficked persons. While the details of this case are extraordinarily complicated, our client was accused of seeking out minors in the Philippines and later traveling to the Philippines with the intent to have sex with them.
The investigation into this case took over a year while our client was pending charges. Once our client was charged, he was facing a maximum sentence of several hundred years in prison. An Article 120 UCMJ sexual assault attorney in Korea, Tim Bilecki, was retained early on in the investigation and utilized a defense investigator, a computer forensic expert and several other experts located in the Philippines. The defense team understood that the government would likely be seeking 40 or more years in confinement.
Bilecki Law Group utilized our assets, and Mr. Bilecki created a great deal of leverage in the case and flew to Korea to negotiate perhaps the best Pre-Trial Agreement of his career. After a week of hard negotiations between Mr. Bilecki and the prosecution, a plea deal was struck, limiting our client’s confinement time to only 18 months.
Other high-profile cases involving Operation Swift Traveler:
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