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Interior Minister Marcel Vela announced “Day Z”, “an important day for the fight against crime in Romania”, in the context in which today 619 searches and searches were carried out, 386 of them by the Destructuring of organized criminal groups involved in drug trafficking and human trafficking, pimping, migrant smuggling, usury, cybercrime, tax evasion and money laundering.
Vela issued a press release, in which he wanted to announce that “it is Z day, an important day for the fight against crime in Romania”.
“On this day we carried out 619 missions in which we carried out searches and searches throughout the country,” said Marcel Vela, noting that 130 searches were carried out for the execution of preventive detention orders and European arrest warrants. .
He said that 21 criminal groups were attacked, causing damage of 190 million lei and 160,000 euros.
DIICOT announced on Wednesday morning searches in Bucharest and in 28 counties, within broad actions aimed at dismantling organized crime groups involved in drug and human trafficking, pimping, migrant smuggling, usury, cybercrime, tax evasion. and money laundering. According to an announcement by DIICOT, in the context of the pandemic, “important leaders” of some groups operating abroad returned to the country.
The searches were organized 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, Albarance, Albarance , Caraş-Severin, Timişoara, Arad, Bihor, Satu Mare, Cluj and Bistriţa Năsăud.
The actions of the DIICOT prosecutors and the Romanian Police, initiated at the national level, are the result of investigations carried out in 24 criminal cases investigated by 21 DIICOT territorial structures and the Central Structure.
Its objective is to dismantle various criminal groups involved in most forms of organized crime, namely, high-risk and high-risk drug trafficking, human trafficking, pimping, migrant smuggling, usury, cybercrime, tax evasion, money laundering. capital, smuggling, migrant smuggling, fraud or blackmail.
Among those attacked are the underworld Adrian Tâmplaru and Alex Bodi, Bianca Dragusanu’s ex-husband.
Romanian Police Announcement:
- The Romanian police, the Romanian gendarmerie and the border police, together with DIICOT, as well as the other competent prosecutor’s offices, are conducting 619 searches and raids in Bucharest and in all counties. Of these, 489 are searches and 130 are raids.
- Thus, for the destructuring of some criminal groups, there are 386 raids in the field of organized crime, 36 in the judicial line, 46 in the fight against economic and financial crime and 21 in the field of weapons and ammunition.
- These searches for the dismantling of 21 criminal groups include suspected drug trafficking, human smuggling, migrant smuggling, pimping, cybercrime, money laundering, tax evasion, usury, blackmail, fraud, smuggling, as well as other related crimes.
- The 130 raids concern the execution of orders for the execution of the prison sentence, pre-trial detention and European arrest warrants.
- The value of the estimated damages in criminal cases in which procedural activities are carried out in the proceedings this morning exceeds 190 million lei and approximately 160,000 euros.
Today’s activities:
- 1. The policemen of the Brigade Against Organized Crime Constanța, together with prosecutors DIICOT – ST Constanța, initiated the “OMAHA” action, which is aimed at an organized criminal group specialized in high-risk drug trafficking, carrying out illegal operations with new psychoactive substances and money laundering, which would have acted in the county of Constanța. 69 house search warrants were executed and 111 people will be transferred to the headquarters for hearings and, once the activities are completed, the DIICOT – ST Constanța Prosecutor’s Office will order legal measures.
- 2. Police officers fighting organized crime in Craiova, together with a prosecutor from DIICOT – ST Craiova, carry out 23 house searches of members of an organized criminal group, specialized in human trafficking, trafficking in minors, pimping and money laundering. of capitals. Research has shown that, from 2014 until now, members of an organized criminal group have had criminal concerns regarding the recruitment, transportation and sexual exploitation of various minors and young women in Germany, the United Kingdom and Austria. 18 orders will be executed, the people detected will be transferred to the headquarters of BCCO Craiova and DIICOT – ST Craiova.
- 3. This morning, police officers from the Bucharest Police General Directorate – Sector 4 Police Criminal Investigation Service, with the support of the Special Actions Service, executed 4 house search warrants in Bucharest and Ilfov County , in the homes of many people, in a case of usury and blackmail. The investigations are carried out under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the 4th District Court.
- The people will be transferred for interrogation at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Service Sector 4. From the existing data, the reasonable assumption that the people, through threats with acts of violence, would have obtained, in July-November 2020, in this way , more than 100,000 euros.
- 4. Currently, the police officers of the Directorate of Investigation of Economic Crimes of the Romanian Police, under the coordination of the prosecutor of the case of the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court, carry out 17 house searches and execute 5 warrants of arrest in the Directorate of Investigation of Economic Crimes. . Today’s action is a continuation of an investigative activity in which 15 house searches were carried out, during July 2020. The activity at that time was directed at several Romanian citizens who suspected that, as of January 2019, It would have created an Evasion Mechanism, aimed at avoiding the payment of tax debts related to the national commercialization of products (textiles, footwear and household items) imported from Turkey and China.
- 5. Police specialized in the fight against organized crime and prosecutors from the DIICOT of Galati are carrying out 10 raids of people investigated for the establishment of an organized criminal group, usury and blackmail. Research has shown that, since 2011, the group, made up of seven members, has offered loans to various natural and legal persons, for which they have claimed large sums of money as interest. To oblige the victims to pay this money, the members of the group have resorted to threats and blackmail and have thus managed to obtain approximately 1,445,000 lei and 110,000 euros.
- 6. The policemen of the Satu Mare Organized Crime Service together with the DIICOT – BT Satu Mare prosecutors carry out 42 house searches, in a case of smuggling and usury. During the investigation in question, starting in February of this year, several captures of cigarettes (400,000 pieces) of Ukrainian origin were made, which were supposedly introduced into the country on the green strip, and later extracted by members of the group and marketed in Satu . Big.
