600,000 euros, at home and with a friend. Huge Sum Raised by Suceava Chief Commissioner Accused of Selling Driving Licenses | News, News Romania | Freedom

Investigators’ sources claim that the illegal network in Suceava that sold car permits was run by Commissioner Radu Obreja, former head of the Permit and Registration Service.

The state official would have managed to collect from bribes, according to the sources of the investigation, the fabulous amount of 600,000 euros.

At his home, law enforcement officers found, after searches, 60,000 lei and another 50,000 euros in the trunk of the car. Obreja allegedly told investigators that he had received 50,000 euros from a friend to make a transaction for him.

At the home of another defendant in the case, Radu Popovici, a driving instructor, the police allegedly found 500,000 euros. However, the money also belonged to Obreja, and Popovici acted as a “safe” for his friend.

In addition to the goods found in Obreja’s house and in Radu Popovici’s house, DNA also found 240,000 euros in the house of the defendant Gheorghe Ionel Perijoc, an employee of the Registry and Permits Service.

The “poorest” of those investigated in these cases appears to be the defendant Cristian Blîndu, a car examiner. At his home, law enforcement officers found 20,000 euros, and at his mother’s house, another 80,000 euros.

60 records, 14 people arrested

During Thursday, November 26, DNA conducted more than 60 searches in Suceava, Bacau, Botosani and Bistriţa-Năsăud, in three files that are connected to each other.

In all three cases, employees of the Suceava Permits Service, employees of the Romanian Automobile Registry Suceava, as well as driving instructors or administrators of driving schools are investigated. A DGA officer is also under investigation.

A total of 14 people were detained for 30 days, according to the Suceava Court decision on Friday.

How the network worked

According to investigators, a real test fraud ring existed in Suceava to obtain driver’s licenses in exchange for huge sums of money.

The driving license costs between 300 and 6,000 euros. Later, those who wanted to “jump the line” in RAR to register their cars also paid 1,000 euros in bribes. The network would have benefited from the protection of DGA officer Mihail Martin.

According to DNA prosecutors, Martin was providing secret information to members of the network to help them escape his investigations. For his loyalty he would have received an SUV from Obreja, which he himself had requested through intermediaries.

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