Searches at Bucharest Directorate for Driving Licenses

The case involves even officials from the Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicles Registration Certificates in the capital.

The Prosecutor's Office attached to the Trial Court of Bucharest together with the employees of the Police department carried out on Wednesday 44 searches at the Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicles Registration Certificates in Pipera also at home addresses in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanţa, Giurgiu and Suceava.

The authorities have started the criminal prosecution against 36 people accused of bringing stolen cars from abroad and registering them in Romania.

According to a statement issued by the Anti-Corruption General Directorate, 36 people have been charged with bribery, corrupt practices, influence peddling, fraud, false material in official documents, fabrication of documents under private signature, intellectual forgery, forgery, concealment, encouraging the offender, disclosure of information, driving a vehicle without a license.

Following these searches 50 arrest warrants have been issued, out of which 36 for the offenders.

The above mentioned crimes were committed between 2009 and 2011, when luxury cars from Spain and Italy were brought into the country and then registered with the help of workers of the Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicles Registration Certificates.

The searches made on Wednesday were coordinated by prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Trial Court of Bucharest with the help of the employees of the Anti-Corruption General Directorate, the special forces of the Romanian Gendarmerie, specialists of the General Directorate for Intelligence and Internal Security and the technical support of the Romanian Intelligence Service.

Translated by: Anca Toma
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University