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Beatrice Rancea, manager of the Romanian National Opera House in Iasi, has been taken by the police from home and brought to the DIICOT headquarters in Iasi for hearings, as part of an investigation into financial irregularities at the Iasi Opera House, with a damage amounting to 5 million lei, according to AGERPRES.
Another 13 people are to be heard in this case.
The DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism) prosecutors - the Iasi Territorial Service and judicial police officers on Monday morning conducted 26 home searches in Bucharest and Iasi as part of an investigation into forgery and fraud offences, and building a criminal ring, in connection with several irregularities found at the Romanian National Opera in Iasi
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The Minister of Justice, Stelian Ion, on Friday, on the occasion of the presentation of DIICOT s (Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism) activity report for 2020, that criminal groups must be hit where hurts them the most, where the money are. We must work to block the flow of money and then to recover the damage and the proceeds of crime, because criminal groups must be hit where hurts them most, where the money are, said Stelian Ion, quoted in a statement sent to AGERPRES by the Ministry of Justice.
The Minister also said that a very good measure is the establishment of a structure to combat human trafficking, a scourge that has spread in recent years and must be combated with all available means.
21/02/2021 18:34
A member of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, one of Mexico s most powerful and violent crime gangs, was extradited from Romania to the US, the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police (IGPR) announced on Sunday.
Officers of the Organized Crime Directorate s Anti-Drug Service and prosecutors of the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) conducted last year joint investigations targeting members of an extensive Mexican criminal network involved in international drug trafficking, the Romanian Police said.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security and US Marshals, respectively, also cooperated in these actions.
The US Department of Justice issued a rogatory letter in connection with the investigation of money laundering, money laundering conspiracy, processing or distribution of controlled substances under the US Code for the purpose of illegal importation.
A Bulgarian national who was convicted by a federal jury for his role in a transnational and multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud American victims was sentenced today to 121 months in prison. Acting Assistant Attorney General David P. Burns of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan Jr. of the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Resident Agent in Charge John Oldham of the U.S. Secret Service made the announcement. U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Weir sentenced Rossen G. Iossifov, 53, formerly of Bulgaria, for conspiracy to commit a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) offense and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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A Bulgarian national who was convicted by a federal jury for his role in a transnational and multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud American victims was sentenced today to 121 months in prison.
Acting Assistant Attorney General David P. Burns of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan Jr. of the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Resident Agent in Charge John Oldham of the U.S. Secret Service made the announcement.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Weir sentenced Rossen G. Iossifov, 53, formerly of Bulgaria, for conspiracy to commit a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) offense and conspiracy to commit money laundering.