Call-Center made for spikes with fictitious investments
A number of 12 persons were detained, and over 30 were placed under judicial control in a file regarding investment scams.
According to a statement from the Romanian Police, police officers of the Organized Crime Combat Directorate and the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Romanian Police, together with the DIICOT prosecutors-the central structure, implemented 46 searches at the homes of some persons and the headquarters of some companies, in a criminal case, in a criminal offense particularly serious consequences and money laundering.
« From the research carried out, it turned out that, starting with August 2024, over 50 people investigated (Romanian and foreign citizens) would have been an organized criminal group, in order to obtain important material benefits by misleading some people interested in investments, » the statement said.
Police officers explain that, under the screen of a trading company, the organized crime group would have operated on a specialized call center in contacting some people from Canada, France, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands interested in investments, which would have applied on alleged trading platforms distributed by the members of the group in the virtual space.
« Under the pretext of carrying out investments, the researched persons would have determined the injured persons to transfer different amounts of money, without them entering the alleged actions purchased, the amounts invested or the alleged profit obtained, the amounts invested being transferred through different financial circuits for the purpose of concealing their illicit origin, » the inspectorate.
According to the statement, the organized crime group would have been structured in the pyramidal (corporate) system on several levels: agents organized in teams and departments (those who contact the injured persons and determine them to transfer money under investment pretext), Team (who are in the management of the teams formed from 6-10 agents), the coordinator of the call center.
The evidence administered that, between November 2021 – March 2023, the leader of the organized criminal group, together with some of the members, would have acted within another organized crime group destroyed by the German judicial authorities in March 2023.
As a result of the searches, 82,615 euros, 62,810 lei, $ 3,200, data storage units (tablets, PC central units, laptops, memory sticks, SSD), various quantities of substances under expertise, as well as other means of evidence, were discovered and raised.
‘Compared to 12 investigated persons, the detention measure was ordered, while for another 33 the measure of judicial control was taken. On Thursday, the judge of rights and freedoms of the Bucharest Court was notified with a proposal for a preventive arrest of the detained persons, for 30 days’, informs the source.
