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Eight people have been charged with 34 offenses in an investigation into historic child sexual exploitation.
Police arrested the men from Newport, Swansea, London, Birmingham, Lancashire, Edinburgh and the Argyll and Bute areas of Scotland.
Operation Oak involved a complex and lengthy investigation into gang-based child sexual exploitation in South Wales, said Det Supt Andrew Tack, from Gwent Police.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said 17 charges, including rape, had been approved.
The inquiry focuses on allegations by several women that they were sexually abused as children between 1985 and 1996.
Attorney-General for Wales Jenny Hopkins said prosecutors had “sought to ensure that there was sufficient evidence to bring the case to court and that it was in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings”.
“We remind all concerned that criminal proceedings against these defendants are active and they are entitled to a fair trial.”
The men, aged between 54 and 73, are all British nationals and are due to appear at Newport Magistrates’ Court on July 24.
They are:
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Shafaq Mohammed, 58, of Birmingham, was charged with a total of 11 offences. Four counts of rape of a female under 16 years of age, three counts of rape of a female under 16 years of age, three counts of rape of a female under 16 years of age, aiding and abetting the rape of a female under 16 years of age, causing the prostitution of a female under 16 years of age.
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Syed Muhammad Ashan Takivi, 65, of Newport, was charged with three counts of raping a girl under 16 years of age.
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Mohammed Sheikh Abdulhanan, 54, of Edinburgh, on eight counts; Rape of a female 16 years of age or older, one count of indecent assault on a female 16 years of age or older, three counts of aiding and abetting the rape of a female 16 years of age or older, and two counts of conspiracy to commit the rape of a female 16 years of age or older.
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Kevin Lawrence, 54, of Dunoon, was charged with three offences; Two counts of conspiracy to rape a female 16 or older and two counts of soliciting a female for prostitution.
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Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Ullah, 73, of Newport, was charged with one count of rape of a female 16 years of age and older and one count of rape of a female under 16 years of age.
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Aminur Rahman Chowdhury, 58, of Tottenham, has been charged with raping a girl aged 16 and over.
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Shakeel Babur, 58, from Lancashire, has been charged with four counts of assaulting a girl under the age of 16.
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Murad Ali, 57, was charged with raping a girl under 16 years of age.
