DIICOT’s Iași territorial service has taken preventive measures against ten people, in a case of organised criminal group, tax evasion, embezzlement, abuse of company credit and money laundering, in construction. EVZ: seven are in custody, three under judicial control. The inquiry is open. None of them is named here. The presumption of innocence holds. The facts are those related by investigators, not a sentence.

On 15 October 2026 IGPR announced 48 search warrants in Iași, Giurgiu, Prahova, Maramureș, Dâmbovița, Ilfov and Bucharest. Digi24 quotes the statement: from 2021, more than 20 people are alleged to have worked a fake commercial circuit — beneficiary firms, intermediaries, shells — to dodge tax. The flow would have been successive invoices for fictitious or overvalued works, with work statements and reception minutes that gave the appearance of real services.

Estimated loss to the state budget, 2023–2025: at least 16,665,844 lei, of which 9,067,303 lei VAT and 7,598,538 lei profit tax. Separately, at least 38,729,358 lei to the companies — the gap between sums paid on operations treated as fictitious and the tax duties from evasion. Together, more than 55 million lei. The figures do not cover 2021–2022. The inquiry continues.

Many of the companies, in the investigators’ reading, had no staff or resources for what they declared. Money, moved between firms, would have been taken out in cash, to leave the banking circuit. Stiripesurse: five luxury cars, estimated over €500,000, seized; hundreds of thousands of lei, foreign currency, two watches, 30 bank cards. That is what was taken, not a final confiscation.

EVZ writes explicitly that the people under investigation benefit from the presumption of innocence. Custody and judicial control are preventive measures, not convictions. A “dismantled” group is press-release language, not a verdict.

We do not publish names. The file sits with DIICOT Iași. Who did what, on which firm, remains to be proved in court.

Image: Argenna, Palace of Justice, Iași, 8 October 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The court building in Iași, not DIICOT’s offices.

Sources consulted: Facturi fictive și milioane de lei transferate între firme. Anchetă DIICOT — EVZ; 48 de percheziții în București și în șase județe într-un dosar de evaziune fiscală — Digi24.