DIICOT

Traian Berbeceanu, former chief of the Organized Crime Brigade in Alba, currently head of office of Interior Minister Marcel Vela, has joined the National Liberal Party, Deva organisation. "Traian Berbeceanu, former chief of the Alba…

Romania still tops the U.S. human trafficking watch list. The U.S. State Department's 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report on Romania says that "he Government of Romania does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of…

The Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors have caught the biggest counterfeiter of plastic banknotes in the world. He and his organized criminal group have forged over 17,000 banknotes of RON.…

Opinion article by Burcin Atakan, Partner, and Ioana Ungureanu, Manager, Financial Advisory, Deloitte Romania As the new coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, top-down measures are imposed to slow down its effects…

President Klaus Iohannis has signed today the decrees to appoint the chief prosecutors for the General Prosecutor's Office, DNA and DIICOT, thus accepting the proposals submitted by Justice minister Catalin Predoiu. According to the…

A Romanian criminal group would have prejudiced France's railway company with almost EUR 1 million, being accused of repeatedly stealing components from train locomotives. According to DIICOT, the quantity of stolen metals mounts to around…

The Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) has given negative opinion to prosecutor Gabriela Scutea, proposed to take over the position of Prosecutor General, and to Giorgiana Hosu, proposed to take the helm of the Directorate for…

Justice minister Cătălin Predoiu has announced today the proposals for the main prosecutor's offices, the General Prosecutor's Office, the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) and he Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and…

DIICOT prosecutors are conducting searches at Spiru Haret private university in Bucharest and also at other locations in the Capital and other cities in a file regarding forged diplomas. Sources told local mass media there are suspicions…

The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has announced on Wednesday that it had detained an accomplice of the alleged Caracal murderer Gheorghe Dincă. A 46-year-old man is charged that, together with…