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Robert Man, 43, is wanted in his home country to complete a jail sentence for abusing seven youngsters during a three-year period.
Some of his victims were reportedly groomed after he landed a job driving children to a campsite run by a humanitarian charity.
Man is also wanted for possessing indecent images of children. His youngest victim was just nine.
He is currently on bail while appealing an extradition order made by a judge at Westminster Magistrates Court in London in July.
Man wears an electronic tag and is under a 7am to midday curfew at his home in Newport, South Wales, which allows him to do night shifts at an Amazon distribution centre in Bristol.
The retail giant confirmed Man was an employee but refused to say if they were aware of his criminal history. A spokesman said: “We are investigating.”
Alarmingly, Man’s rented room in Newport is just 150 yards from Stow Park Community Centre, which hosts weekly martial arts classes for kids as young as four, as well as children’s parties and clubs for youngsters with autism.
Willie Clason, secretary and trustee of Stow Park, said he did not recognise Man and that he has no connection with the centre.
“We have refugees coming here for food parcels, but they are thoroughly checked,” he said.
One neighbour with children, who did not wish to be named, said they no idea of Man’s past.
“It is terrible that someone wanted for such dreadful things against children is living so close by,” she protested. “We should have been told.”
Man has three years and three months left to serve of a five years and eight months sentence imposed by the County Court in Cluj in his absence in January 2020.
He was originally sentenced to 17 years and four months’ imprisonment after he made admissions to prosecutors in Romania in 2017.
However, Man was released months later after an appeal court ruled there had been errors during the original prosecution and that he “had not been fully entitled to exercise his right to defence.”
A judge set aside his conviction and ordered a retrial, where he was found guilty of eight sexual abuse charges, including five assaults, two counts of soliciting a minor for “sexual acts” and one child pornography offence.