Chief inspector and nine other employees, prosecute criminally

Prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA)-Timișoara Territorial Service ordered, on Wednesday, the criminal action and the detention of a territorial inspector from the State Inspectorate for Road Transport (ISCTR)-Territorial Inspectorate no. 5 and nine other employees of the institution for bribery.

In the task of the territorial chief inspector, eight material acts were held for bribery and improper participation in abuse in the service, if the civil servant obtained for himself or for another an undue use, and in the task of the others were retained between seven and 43 materials to take bribes and other criminal acts, in a communication of DNA.

Four of the 10 defendants will be presented to the Timiș Tribunal with a proposal for a preventive arrest.

Compared to the rest of six defendants who will not be presented with a proposal for a preventive arrest at the court the anti -corruption prosecutors ordered the measure of judicial control for a period of 60 days, starting with June 11.

Also, the anti -corruption prosecutors ordered the further criminal prosecution to four suspects, road traffic inspectors within the institution, for bribery (several material acts).

In this file, the anti -corruption prosecutors carry out investigations in order to document some offenses of taking and giving bribes, alleged to be committed by civil servants and businessmen who carry out their activity in the field of road transport and the exploitation of mineral aggregates, in relation to the ‘protection’ offered by the inspectors, according to the inspectors.

Thus, in exchange for amounts of money received monthly with the title of bribe, even in the form of a ‘subscription’, the inspectors ISCTR Timisoara would not have sanctioned the vehicles of the respective companies that carried out road transport and, at the same time, would have announced about any controls carried out. The value of these ‘subscriptions’ would have been established according to the number of vehicles used for transport and the extent of the operating activity of the mineral aggregates.

In the ordinances of the prosecutors, it is shown that in this case there are data and evidence that outlines the fact that between December 2024-May 2025, the chief inspector, repeatedly and based on the same criminal resolution, would have received several amounts of money (2,500 euros) and various goods from several representatives, for some companies, for some companies the controls carried out by the inspectors from ISCTR Timișoara.

The protection offered by the defendant would have been so that the subordinated inspectors did not sanction the respective companies on the occasion of the traffic of the vehicles of the companies that carry goods over the tonnage exceeding the legal limits admitted on public roads in terms of weight.

Also, on February 6, the same defendant would not have sent, at the request of the road police officers of the Timiș Police, a crew from ISCTR to weigh a road assembly in traffic, which exceeded the maximum permissible total mass in circulation, determining them without guilt, not to apply the company, not the complementary measure regarding the unavailability of the respective vehicle.

In the aforementioned context, during the months of April and May 2025, the defendant would have received through an intermediary the total amount of 5,000 euros, for the protection of a trading company with activity in the field of road transport, for the respective months.

Subsequently, on June 10, the defendant would have received in the same way the amount of 1,500 euros, an occasion with which the anti -corruption prosecutors proceeded to find the flagrant crime.

Between December 2024 – April 2025, another defendant, repeatedly and based on the same criminal resolution, would have received several amounts of money and various goods from several representatives of some companies, to ensure protection of these companies in front of the controls carried out by the inspectors within ISCTR Timisoara.

At the same time, on February 14, this second defendant would have been disclosed to a representative of a commercial company that his subordinates are to carry out a thematic control at his company, as well as the objectives of the control.

Between December 2024 – April 2025, 12 road traffic inspectors would have claimed and received from traffic drivers several amounts of money and goods in order not to apply contraventional fines for non -observance of the periods of driving and rest, the lack of documents, the presentation of non -compliant acts related to transport.

At the same time, some of the road traffic inspectors would have received from the same persons various amounts of money to ensure the protection of companies in front of the controls carried out by the inspectors within the ISCTR.

While under judicial control, the six defendants must comply with a number of legal obligations.

In this case, acts of criminal prosecution are carried out and compared to other persons.

At the same time, during the day of June 10, as a result of obtaining the legal authorizations from the competent court, the anti -corruption prosecutors carried out the home searches in 30 locations located in the Timiș and Arad counties.

In this file, the prosecutors benefit from the support of the workers from the Directorate of Special Operations and the subordinate structures, the Timișoara Organized Crime Fighting Brigade and the territorial Inspectorate of the Border Police Timisoara.