DIICOT

Giorgiana Hosu, the chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has resigned on Thursday evening after her husband had got a suspended prison sentence. Giorgiana Hosu is the third anti-mafia…

DIICOT prosecutors and organized crime policemen have done the largest bust of hashish and Captagon pills in Romania. The drugs, worth EUR 60 million, originated from Syria and were hidden among boxes of organic soap. The investigators…

Bucharest Court of Appeal has declined jurisdiction to the Bucharest Tribunal to solve the DIICOT's request to re-open investigation against the former Gendarmerie chiefs in the August 10 rally file. After anti-organized crime…

After anti-organized crime prosecutors had partially dismissed the August 10 case in mid-July this year, DIICOT has announced today that they have re-opened the criminal prosecution against the former Gendarmerie chiefs during the Diaspora…

The Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has concluded the Black Cube file and decided to prosecute former intelligence officer Daniel Dragomir, who has recently fled the country after the prison sentence…

Almost two years since the Diaspora rally in Victoriei Square on August 10, anti-organized crime prosecutors have partially dismissed the case today. They argued there is no evidence of a coup d'etat attempt, as the Romanian Gendarmerie had…

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…