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Dozens of fake driving licenses from an African country were exchanged in Romania in various counties in the country. Those interested in acquiring the right to circulate on public roads pay between 2,000 and 3,000 euros.
DIICOT sources specified for Digi24.ro that the fake permits were ordered in Congo. According to Agerpres, prosecutors from the DIICOT in Ploieşti, together with agents of the judicial police, have already carried out 41 house searches, in 19 counties and in Bucharest, at the homes of some people involved in the fraudulent obtaining of driving licenses for Romanian citizens.
Once the permits were obtained in the African country, they were exchanged for authentic Romanian driving licenses.
The persons investigated are suspected of committing the crimes of belonging to an organized criminal group, instigation of intellectual falsification, improper participation in intellectual falsification, bribery, instigation of bribery, improper participation in illegal access to a computer system, improper participation in falsification computing, the use of forgery and complicity with the use of forgery, is shown in a DIICOT statement.
Some of the members of the group dealt with the intermediation of obtaining driving licenses, without fulfilling the legal conditions, on behalf of some Romanian citizens, by the competent authorities of an African country, and another part carried out recruitment activities , Romanian citizens, interested in fraudulently obtaining said documents.
Through these malicious maneuvers, Romanian citizens who did not have the necessary skills to legally acquire, on Romanian territory, the right to drive vehicles on public roads, obtained a driving license for several categories, including C, D or E.
How did the criminal group that issued false permits in the Congo work?
To carry out this criminal activity, people interested in acquiring the right to drive vehicles on public roads made available to the members of the group their personal data, a newsletter-type photograph (or, where appropriate, they were photographed by the group members with a white sheet or a white wall behind), a copy of the signature, as well as various sums of money, generally between 2,000 and 3,000 euro (or its equivalent in other currencies), being the amounts sent through money transfer services, by members of the criminal network that operate in the territory of the African country.
In addition, the documents relating to the procedure for obtaining a driving license were falsely drawn up and, with the support of the group leader, driving licenses issued by the authorities of that state were obtained, some of which were exchanged for driving licenses. Romanian, authentic.
The car permits were sent to Romania by courier.
Driving licenses issued by the competent authorities of the African country were sent to Romania through a courier company, and Romanian citizens who obtained fraudulently obtained foreign driving licenses were presented to the county services of the Permit Directorate Driving and Registration. Vehicles or in SPCRPCIV Bucharest, where licenses issued by foreign authorities were exchanged for Romanian driving licenses.
This led to the situation in which unreal computer data, proving the apparent legal acquisition of foreign driving licenses, will be implemented in the databases of the Directorate of Driving Permits and Vehicle Registration, with the consequence of creating computer data related false “This false data was the basis for the exchange of foreign driving licenses for Romanian driving licenses, resulting in an authentic document that does not reflect reality.”say prosecutors.
The investigators explain that, in this way, officials from the Department of Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Regime innocently exceeded their authorization limits by accessing the institution’s computer systems and implementing unrealistic data in Romanian databases.
Police searched the capital and 19 other counties in the country.
The investigation activities carried out this Wednesday were directed at 48 people, Romanian citizens, members of the group that supported the criminal network carrying out operations to transmit the data that had to be registered in the driving license and people who obtained the license fraudulently of driving. illegal management, through services provided by group members.
48 people will be brought to DIICOT – Ploieşti Territorial Service headquarters for the hearing.
The raids take place in a larger case investigated by the DIICOT prosecutors in Ploieşti, in which three indictments have so far been drawn up, through which 52 defendants have been sent to trial.
According to DIICOT, as of the second half of 2019, in the counties of Dâmboviţa and Ilfov and in Bucharest a criminal group outlined on the commission of crimes in the field of cybercrime, as well as crimes of counterfeiting and corruption was installed.
The aim of the group was to obtain illicit income by facilitating the obtaining in exchange for a fee and the fraudulent obtaining of driving licenses for several Romanian citizens who did not have the necessary skills to obtain the right to drive on public roads in Romania.
Editing: Alexandra Andronie
