organized crime

Prosecutors from the Section for investigating judicial crimes have extended investigations in the case of two prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Directorate’s (DNA) Ploiesti branch accused of forging evidence over the entire structure, judicial sources told MEDIAFAX.

Businessman and former funder of football club Dinamo Bucharest, Cristian Borcea, was retained by anti-organized crime prosecutors for questioning on Friday night, following 10 hours of searches at his home in a case in which he is suspected of money laundering and tax evasion.

Romanian and British authorities identified over 160 ethnic Roma children taken to the U.K. illegally and forced to beg and busted a gang of alleged child traffickers in Tandarei, southern Romania, authorities said Thursday.

The Brazilian police seized Thursday in Paranagua port four tons of cocaine bound for Romania, hidden inside lumber containers, television station Globo said.

Nearly one ton of cocaine was found in the container lying since December 2008 in port Constanta Sud – Agigea, southern Romania, organized crime officer Aurelian Pavel said Friday.

Seven alleged members of an organized crime network were heard by prosecutors Tuesday night in Pitesti, southern Romania, after they had been caught withdrawing 150 million lei (EUR1=RON3.6361) from a bank in Bucharest, using fake ID.