Over one hundred raids on computer frauds

Police officers from Organized Crime in Craiova have planned over 60 home raids in Dolj, Gorj, Olt, Vâlcea, Argeş, Caraş-Severin, Timiş and Bucharest for the dissolution of groups specialized in computer fraud.

Tens of people are targeted by raids, being accused of computer fraud with prejudices of 20 million dollars.

According to the authorities, the members of these groups have organized fake auctions in order to sell goods that they owned on the territory of the US.

According to Mediafax, they were collecting money paid by victims abroad using fake identities.

Subsequently, the money was sent again to Romania through rapid money transfers.

This way, over a thousand people were misled.

The prosecutors working for the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism are conducting raids in Bucharest, Craiova, Târgu Jiu, Timişoara, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Zimnicea, Alexandria, Reşiţa and Piteşti.

For this case they are working side by side with the US Secret Services and the FBI.

About 90 people will be brought to the headquarters of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism to be investigated for computer fraud, establishing a criminal organization and contract fraudulency with very serious consequences.

Translated by: Manuela Stancu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University