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Almost 100 people were detained for 24 hours after the largest action against organized crime groups. It is a partial centralization, because hearings are still being held in several cases. Hundreds of suspects were arrested yesterday and taken to give explanations to investigators. Among them is the capital businessman Alexandru Bodi, accused of being part of a live meat trafficking network.
DIICOT prosecutors and special forces police went to nearly 400 addresses across the country Wednesday in an unprecedented action against underworld groups. The huge operation is taking place in the context in which the coronavirus pandemic determined that several leaders of the underworld clans returned to the country from Western Europe.
About 400 suspects have been detained for questioning and arrest warrants have already been issued for 98 of them. Another 27 were placed under judicial control. Millions of euros worth of assets were seized.
19 people who had a prison sentence execution order or European arrest warrants were captured.
33.5 kilograms of drugs, eight luxury cars, 4.5 kilograms of gold and three tons of alcohol were seized. At the same time, 870,000 lei, 211,000 euros, 1,000 dollars were confiscated and assets worth 15 million lei were seized: 40 cars and 12 buildings.
On Thursday 55 searches were carried out in Galați, Botoșani, Iași, Teleorman, Vrancea and Bucharest.
“I have a message for the undercover, not to mention that we are monitoring them, I just say: remain as we have established,” the interior minister said in a press release.
The hearings are still ongoing.
One of the most complicated cases is that of Constanza, in a drug trafficking case. More than 110 searches were directed at members of that network, more than 100 people were picked up. It was only in the morning that the process ended and the hearings began.
The researchers found that the network included people who previously had no trouble with the law and who now massively distributed ethnobotanical substances.
Criminal group He performed in the city of Constanța, but also in the southern part of the coast, respectively, the towns of Eforie, Techirghiol, Tuzla and the municipality of Mangalia.
The group members sold 15.13 kg. of substances capable of having psychoactive effects, for which they obtained the amount of 1,292,355 lei. The narcotics were also sold in barbershops, investigators say.
The lawsuits were directed at 21 criminal groups, which caused damages of 190 million lei and 160,000 euros.
“We wanted to send a message, in the sense that the activity to combat organized crime is carried out in this epidemiological context, precisely to prevent the escalation of criminal phenomena in the field of organized crime. Important leaders of some groups that operate abroad returned to the country and we can say that they took advantage of their return to complete the investigation in the ongoing files, ”explained Mihaela Porime, DIICOT prosecutor, for Digi24.
The Interior Minister called this day “Z Day”, saying it is easy to remember, given the date: 11.11.
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The searches were carried out simultaneously in Bucharest and in the counties of Botoşani, Suceava, Iaşi, Neamţ, Galaţi, Vrancea, Covasna, Braşov, Buzău, Prahova, Dâmboviţa, Constanţa, Călăraşi, Ilfov, Teleorman, Argeş, Dolj, V Gorj , Caraş-Severin, Timişoara, Arad, Bihor, Satu Mare, Cluj and Bistriţa Năsăud.
The actions of the DIICOT prosecutors and the Romanian police, launched at the national level, point to the activity of various criminal groups involved in most forms of organized crime, namely high risk and high risk drug trafficking, trafficking of persons, pimping, migrant smuggling, usury, computer crime, tax evasion, money laundering, illicit trafficking, trafficking in migrants, fraud or blackmail.
Publisher: Georgiana Marina
