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Directorate for Fraud Investigations

Police chief superintendent Dan BUCUR

Tel.:  +40 21/208.25.25 ext. 26035

Fax: 021/316.16.80

 

 No. 13-15,  Sos. Stefan cel Mare,  Bucharest,  2 District 

E-mail: economic@politiaromana.ro

 

The Fraud Investigation Directorate operates as a specialized unit in the field, within the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police and assures the unitary enforcement of the law, having as main objective crime countering and prevention in the financial – economic field under the management and control of the designated prosecutors, according to the provisions of the law.

Based on modern European principles, the activity of the Fraud Investigation Directorate is based on new working practices supported by innovative systems. In general terms a proactive and reactive police management is desirable, which supposes ensuring a financial administration adapted to the current and future exigencies in order to create the response capacity adequate to the complex functioning conditions in order to achieve a modern, flexible structure, compatible with the similar institutions within the European Union.

In order to make compatible the competencies within the structures of the prosecutor’s office established by the Law No. 508 /2004, modified and completed with ones of the Romanian Police, the Fraud Investigation Directorate has created its own structure correspondent with the one of the Unit of Prosecution and Forensics within the Prosecutor’s Office from the High Court of Cassation and Justice, which operates mainly as management, coordination, support, guiding and monitoring unit of the territorial structures, also performing its own investigating activities.

The 2004-2007 modernization strategy of the Romanian Police and also the Action Plan regarding the implementation of the Strategy, generated within the Fraud Investigation Directorate the concept of “pluralism of competencies through the work in mixed teams, prosecutors-police officers – inspectors within the Financial Guard, National Custom Authorities, ORDA, SOTI etc. ”

 

1. THE COMPETENCIES OF THE FRAUD INVESTIGATION DIRECTORATE

 

The Fraud Investigation Directorate operates mainly as specialized management, monitoring, evaluation, coordination, support and guiding structure of the fraud investigation territorial structures activities.

In fulfilling its competencies, the Fraud Investigation Directorate performs the following activities:

  1. it assures the implementation of the Romanian Police Strategy in its own activity and the one of the subordinated structures;

  2. it leads, coordinates, supports, guides and monitors the activity performed by the territorial structures in the field;

  3. it informs the management of the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police, the management of the Ministry of Administration and Interior and other decisional factors within the Romanian Government regarding the tendencies and changes within the field of the financial- economic criminality or regarding the aspects resulted from the performed evaluations;

  4. it periodically analyzes when necessary, the operative situation and proposes the adequate preventive and countering measures, including proposals for the modification or adoption of some laws in the field;

  5. it evaluates the causes, conditions and the factors which determined, facilitated and favored crime perpetration and on the basis of the resulting conclusions, it establishes the actions and the measures to be taken at central and territorial level;

  6. it organizes and coordinates countering and preventive actions, at regional and national level, on the issues in its competence;

  7. it participates in the training of the ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Police Academy students, specialized in countering financial-economic criminality and also other police servants included in different training programs in the system of the educational institutions of the Ministry of Administration and Interior;

  8. it cooperates with the specialized units and institutions in order to draft laws in its field;

  9. it performs legal assistance activities in criminal matters in the international rogatory committees in the field of financial – economic criminality;

  10. it implements international programs in the field of preventing and countering financial – economic criminality;

  11. it initiates cooperation protocols with the institutions with competences in the field of preventing and countering financial – economic criminality;

  12. it draws up methodologies, conceptions and action plans in order to prevent and counter financial - economic criminality.

 

The Fraud Investigations Directorate and the specialized units investigate the deeds committed by the individuals who break the law in the financial - economic field, with the observance of the penal-process provisions, drawing preliminary and prosecuting documents in the following fields:

  • Agriculture and Food Industry;

  • Oil and mineral resources;

  • Communications and telecommunications;

  • Forestry, environment and recyclable materials;

  • Road transports;

  • Constructions;

  • Real estate transactions and the Law No. 18/1990;

  • Small and medium enterprises and cooperative societies;

  • Light industry;

  • Energy industry;

  • Corruption;

  • Privatization and post privatization;

  • Public institutions and acquisitions;

  • Education and other budgetary institutions;

  • Health;

  • Work abroad and labor force protection;

  • Free lancers in the field of justice;

  • Pensions public system, compensations and social benefits;

  • Copyrights and other related rights;

  • Industrial property rights;

  • Customs frauds;

  • Currency, gold and precious stones;

  • Gambling and pyramidal systems;

  • Illegal redeeming of the VAT;

  • Tax evasion;

  • Convention frauds;

  • Commercial societies criminality;

  • Legal liquidations;

  • Criminality in advertising;

  • Banks;

  • Assurance – reassurance;

  • Leasing;

  • Management institutions and financial investments;

  • Protection of the financial investments of the EU;

  • Any fields in which are carried out commerce documents and facts, commercial and financial transactions.

 

2. THE STRUCTURE OF THE FRAUD INVESTIGATION POLICE

 

The Fraud Investigation Police operates at central and territorial level, and has the following organizational structure:

  1. within the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police operates the Fraud Investigation Directorate, organized on services and specialized compartments in sectors and working lines;

  2. within the General Directorate of Bucharest Police operates the Fraud Investigation Service and the correspondent services within the sector police services;

  3. within the county police inspectorates operates the fraud investigation services, organized on sectors and lines of work and coordinated by the management of the county police inspectorates;

  4. in the county capital towns, depending on the operative situation, fraud investigation offices function, in the sub ordinance of the chief of the local police or fraud investigation compartments which are included in the county fraud investigation service.

 

The Fraud Investigation Directorate has the following organizational structure:

  • Service 1 – ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE;

  • Service 2 – CORRUPTION;

  • Service 3 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

  • Service 4 – BUSINESS CRIMINALITY;

  • Service 5 – FINANCIAL CRIMINALITY.

 
 

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