Romania
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07 October 2025|PRESS RELEASE
With the assistance of Eurojust and Europol, authorities in Italy, Spain and Belgium have arrested nine members of a gang of thieves stealing high-end luxury cars. Well-targeted thefts of over one hundred high-value vehicles, worth an estimated total of at least EUR 3 million, took place in Italy...
23 September 2025|PRESS RELEASE
At the request of the Spanish and Portuguese authorities, Eurojust has coordinated a major operation across Europe to halt an elaborate investment fraud with cryptocurrencies. During an action day, five suspects were arrested, including the alleged main perpetrator behind the scam. Via an online...
08 September 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Romanian, Czech and Hungarian authorities have worked together with Eurojust to capture an individual investigated for the crime of treason by way of transmitting state secrets on a continuous basis. The suspect had two meetings in 2024 and 2025 in Budapest, Hungary with intelligence officers from...
24 July 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Authorities in Romania and the United Kingdom have taken concerted action to block criminals who illegally withdrew cash from automated teller machines (ATMs) on a large scale. By using specialised computer programs and devices, the Romanian criminal network managed to steal an estimated EUR 580 000...
21 July 2025|PRESS RELEASE
An organised crime group that took vulnerable women from Romania to the Netherlands for sexual exploitation has been halted thanks to a coordinated operation between Romanian and Dutch authorities, in collaboration with Eurojust. During an action day earlier this month, 13 suspects were arrested in...
27 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Following close cooperation between the French and Romanian authorities, criminals stealing agrochemical products across western France have been stopped in their tracks. The network was also involved in transporting and concealing the stolen goods. During a coordinated action this week, 12 suspects...
25 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
A criminal group hacked into trusted online shop accounts to defraud customers of over EUR 400 000 by selling goods that would never arrive. The criminals were able to take over 405 seller accounts. Authorities from Romania and Germany worked together with Eurojust to take down the criminal group.
16 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
An international action week led to the disruption of Archetyp, one of the longest-running dark web marketplaces for drugs, and the arrest of its creator and current administrator in Spain. The platform had around 3 200 vendors and more than 600 000 users, who traded drugs worth at least EUR 250...
12 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust has supported the authorities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova in a coordinated operation, carried out today, against the concealment and laundering of the proceeds of phishing fraud. During a joint action day, 44 locations were searched in both countries. A group of suspects has been...
11 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
With support from Eurojust and Europol, Romanian and UK authorities have taken decisive action against a human trafficking network that forced at least 27 young female victims into prostitution. During a coordinated action day, twelve suspects have been identified and forty places were searched...