CHARITY worker John Boast is being quizzed about two more illegal adoptions of Romanian babies.

The latest probe, based on information provided by British police through Interpol, comes on top of two cases in which he has already been charged.

The Great Harwood aid organiser is now in jail in Oradea, in the North West of the country.

But his solicitor has lodged a detailed application to have him freed on bail and has insisted his client is innocent.

Prosecutor Ioan Teodor said he was working on information about two other Romanian children found in Britain who, he would allege, had been illegally adopted with Boast's help.

"He admits nothing but recognises that he knows the two girls and says that he visited them in England," the prosecutor said from the western Romanian city of Oradea.

Boast, already on trial over alleged baby smuggling, was rearrested on Wednesday and charged with helping buy a baby girl for £40 and getting her out of the country illegally last June.

In the first case he is accused of aiding an illegal border crossing of a 15-month-old girl last July. His lawyer Dorin Caba denies the two new cases brought to light today and said: "There is no proof against my client."

Teodor said he was still investigating the latest two cases and that Boast, 47, had not yet been charged. He is next due to appear in court on June 28.

The self-appointed charity worker has been visiting Romania since the early 1990s, bringing truckloads of humanitarian goods mainly for abandoned children.

He says he was motivated by horrifying scenes of degradation in orphanages and hospitals.

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