Raids on Alba’s Finance Directorate

One Deputy Manager of Alba Public Directorate of Finance, one department head and four tax inspectors are being interrogated by prosecutors of the Alba Iulia Organized Crime Directorate for the conflict of interest and aiding and abetting a criminal, according to the statement issued by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).

An Italian and three Romanians are being suspected of being members of a criminal group which did not used to record commercial activities in the accounts registration, according to prosecutors.

The damage brought to the state budget has been estimated at over two million lei, while prosecutors consider that the work of the four citizens was supported by employees of the Public Finances.

According to the statement, the group’s work was supported by six employees of the Alba General Directorate of Public Finance (DGFP), control and inspection department.

Also, according to DIICOT, they would have made formal raids on the companies of the criminal group members to obtain directly or indirectly material benefits.

According to the statement, DGFP’s employees would have advised the group members how to cover up the unlawfulness.

DIICOT prosecutors have ordered the criminal prosecution for establishing and supporting a criminal group, tax evasion, aiding and abetting a criminal, conflict of interest, failure of informing to the judicial bodies.


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