Operation Jupiter continues

Operation Jupiter continues on Friday. Police and prosecutors are conducting over 220 searches on the fifth day of the operation.

According to the General Prosecutor's Office, the crimes targeted include: tax evasion, fraud, smuggling, usury, cybercrime, organizing and conducting illegal gambling, violating weapons and ammunition laws, and promoting extremist ideologies.

Investigators are seizing accounting documents, contracts, laptops, phones, and electronic storage media, as well as money and goods obtained illegally. The total estimated damage in the cases under investigation already exceeds 17 million lei.

Operation Jupiter represents the mobilization of law enforcement agencies under the coordination of the General Prosecutor's Office, in collaboration with the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police to combat organized crime and defend the democratic values of the Romanian state, authorities say.

Translated by: Radu Matei