organised crime

The UK has appointed its first ever Liaison Magistrate to Romania. John Williams took up his position in Bucharest at the beginning of February. He will work closely with the Romanian Ministry of Justice, the UK Embassy in Bucharest…

More voices in the public space, experts, journalists and politicians are endorsing the possibility that we are dealing with a human trafficking case in the Caracal story rather than with a murder. Former director of Forensic Medicine…

A famous Picasso painting, stolen by Romanian thieves from the Netherlands five years ago, was found in Romania. The painting was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands. It seems that some Belgian theatre producers have buried a copy of…

The US Ambassador to Bucharest, Hans Klemm, has voiced concern on Monday, mentioning other eleven envoys, regarding the amendments to the Criminal Codes, given that these amendments could have had consequences in terms of fight against…

President Klaus Iohannis has signed on Monday the decree to appoint Oliver-Felix Banila as chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT). The appointment is for a term of 3 years, the…

The prosecutors with the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) have decided on Monday, in the general assembly, to send a letter to President Klaus Iohannis to ask him not to appoint Felix Banila as the…

80 people have been arrested following the extensive raids in Bucharest and 28 counties conducted by the DIICOT and Police on Wednesday. Over 200 people are targeted in these organised crime files. In the case of the Ghenosu interloper…

US Ambassador to Bucharest, Hans Klemm, said on Saturday that many positive things have been accomplished within the framework of the Strategic Partnership between the United States and Romania, adding he has full confidence in the National…

Former Minister Elena Udrea has told Antena 3 TV private broadcaster she is in Costa Rica and she is pregnant with twins. “Costa Rica is a beautiful and friendly country, but it seems expensive for those who live here. I’ve arrived here,…

Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) Vice-President Codrut Olaru allegedly has totally plagiarized the PhD thesis ‘Particularities of Organized Crime in Romania’, defended in 2013 at the Bucharest University, copying from various Romanian…