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“On November 18, 2020, prosecutors from the Directorate of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure, together with agents of the DCCO judicial police, carried out eight house searches in Ilfov county and Bucharest -A case aimed at dismantling an organized criminal group specialized in committing crimes of cross-border high-risk drug trafficking, money laundering and instigation of aggravated homicide.
It was noted that the United States authorities had submitted a request for international legal assistance in criminal matters, made by the United States Department of Justice, requesting the assistance of DIICOT prosecutors in conducting an investigation into an organized criminal group responsible for obtaining significant quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine in the United States and other states and for the distribution of these drugs within the European Union and New Zealand.
Likewise, the aforementioned persons carried out activities to launder money obtained from drug trafficking.
Members of the criminal organization have obtained and distributed drugs for the benefit of several well-known organized criminal groups operating in the United States, the European Union and New Zealand.
The leaders of the criminal group, arrested in New Zealand, negotiated, through intermediaries, the purchase of quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine for the benefit of one of the groups, the negotiations and transactions taking place in Romania.
During the negotiations, the Romanian representatives of the organized group also requested a quantity of drugs from the suppliers and discussed the possibility of assassinating a member of a rival group.
On 11/18/2020, the DIICOT – Central Structure prosecutors together with the DCCO judicial police carried out 3 actions in flagrante delicto as follows:
– the arrest of two New Zealand citizens immediately after negotiating payment for a quantity of cocaine to be shipped to New Zealand;
– the capture, in a warehouse, of a member of the group after having negotiated the taking of possession of a quantity of cocaine, bound for Romania;
– the surprise, in a place used as a meeting place for the members of the group, of their leader from Romania, with the amount of 50,000 euros, in cash and the property deeds of two buildings, which represent a part of the payment of the amount of cocaine that would be had to reach Romania.
Following the searches, 12 motorcycles and two luxury cars were seized. As a result of the activities carried out, the amount of USD 200,000, a lethal weapon and the amount of 100 grams of cocaine were not available.
The activities were attended by US police officers and investigators from the DEA, the US Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations, as well as two prosecutors from the US Department of Justice. The action had the support of the combatants within the SIAS ”, is shown in a DIICOT statement.
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