DIICOT: 65 Searches in a Group Suspected of Hijacking Dozens of Shipments in Romania and Abroad and Took Possession of Their Goods / Estimated Damage to 9 Million Euros / Use Identity Documents and Fake Registration Numbers
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Operation of expansion of DIICOT prosecutors and police officers, in a file targeting a network suspected of hijacking about 70 cargo shipments in Romania and several European states. The group members would have developed a mechanism by which they would take over shipments using companies controlled by them, after which they would disappear with the goods and falsely announce the theft of the goods. The estimated injury of investigators amounte…
Romanian investigators together with those in Belgium have broken down a network of dozens of people who, since 2024, have hijacked dozens of cargo shipments and seized their goods, causing damage of 9 million euros. The group has used several companies that it controls and orders goods, and after taking them it used several methods to claim the theft.
65 searches took place on Tuesday morning in several counties, at a criminal group suspected of hijacking dozens of cargo shipments in Romania and abroad and stealing the cargo.
The DAs DIICOT and the police of the Brigade to Combat Organized Crime Pitesti made, Tuesday, November 3, 65 searches in Argeș, Dâmbovița, Ilfov, Dolj, Prahova, Bihor and Bucharest, in a file that aims at a grouping accused of having hijacked about 70 cargo shipments. The estimated injury amounts to 9 million euros. [...] Article DIICOT: 65 searches in a cargo theft file. The estimated injury reaches 9 million euros appears first in the PS News.
An extensive operation against organised crime took place on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in Romania. Police officers of the Pitesti Organized Crime Brigade, together with prosecutors DIICOT – the Pitesti Territorial Service, carried out 65 home searches in a file aimed at a presumed specialized group in the hijacking of freight transports, fraud, false informatics and washing [...]
DIICOT prosecutors came down, on Tuesday, in Bihor and five other counties, as well as in Bucharest, in an investigation targeting an organized crime group suspected of hijacking about 70 goods shipments from Romania and other European countries. The estimated injury by investigators amounts to EUR 9 million.
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