Dănuț Lupu, heard in a file of pimping, housekeeper and money laundering! Transaction of 725,000 euros investigated by prosecutors


Article by David Marinescu – published on Friday, July 25, 2025, 16:10 / Updated Friday, July 25, 2025 16:19
Former footballer Dănuț Lupu, 58, legitimized during his career at Rapid and Dinamo, was heard as a witness in a file in which Gheorghiță Suvejanu, who described as a “friend for several years”, was convicted for pimping, dwelling, blackmail, tax evasion, false money and money. Lupu was investigated for false statements and false testimony, but in the end his file was classified.
Sent to court in June 2021, accused of pimping, housekeeper, blackmail, tax evasion, false in documents and money laundering, Gheorghiță Suvejanu was sentenced in February 2025 to 10 years, 8 months and 20 days of imprisonment.
In July, The Galati Court of Appeal reduced the sentence to 7 years and 10 monthsjudging that some of the facts were prescribed. He also weighed the fact that the defendant paid 36,000 lei to the City Hall of Gălăță Vânatori, which the investigators considered that he harmed by tax evasion.
From the sentence of 7 years and 10 months, 1 year and 3 months are dropped, a period that Suvejanu spent in preventive arrest and house arrest.
Investigators concluded that Suvejanu would have obtained huge amounts of prostitution, of the order of hundreds of thousands of euros, and borrowed money with the chair, and then resort to blackmail to recover. In order to justify the origin of the money, they would have prepared records in false, clamping loans of hundreds of thousands of euros from the close ones.
Dănuț Lupu, heard in the file of pimping, housekeeper and money laundering that led to the conviction of Gheorghiță Suvejanu
The name of Dănuț Lupu also appears in the file. Of the documents presented by MEDIAFAX appears that Lupu was heard as a result of a loan that he granted to the defendant in 2008.
Suvejanu claimed that he would have borrowed from Lupu the sum of 725,000 euros. The investigators analyzed the revenues declared by Dănuț Lupu, both from the period when he was active as a footballer and later, and they considered it unlikely to hold such amounts.
Lupu has been quoted several times in this file. For example, in a statement offered in April 2021, “showed that He has known the defendant for about twenty years and that they are friends but does not know if the defendant used to borrow money with And he did not hear about such situations. “
Two months later, following another statement provided by Lupu, it is shown that he “does not remember the details of the loan granted to the defendant, but it has certainly been returned and was located at the level of approximate amount of 100,000 eurosand did not conclude a proof of the loan ”.
Therefore, an amount 7 times smaller than that claimed by the defendant.
Dănuț Lupu: “I borrowed Mr. Suvejanu with more money, who has been a friend for many years”
In another statement, from May 2023, Lupu supported: “It is true that over time I have borrowed Mr. Suvejanu with more money, who has been a friend for many years. (…) The loans have been returned.”
Lupu also submitted to the file records of fiscal records. What did investigators noted after analyzing them? “In the years 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2017 and 2018, witness Lupu registered net incompatible revenues with the alleged amount borrowed to the defendant (about seven hundred thousand euros)”.
Also from the file: “According to the witness's statements, in 1990-1994 he won as a football player the sum of $ 600,000, and between 1994-2001 he won, as a professional free amount of $ 490,000. (…) However, did not show any evidence on saving any amount of money (deposit contract) in the past or at present ”.
I don't remember exactly what date or year I gave my friend Gheorghiță. This amount of money returned it to me, if I did not return it, I would make a complaint or action in court. I don't remember the amount, but it seems as if $ 100,000 or euros. Honestly, I don't remember the date or year.
– Declaration of Dănuț Lupu, on 09.06.2021
The conclusion reached by investigators? “Analyzing the statement and situation of witness to witness Lupu Dănuț, it turns out that The mentions recorded in the document identified at the house of the defendant Suvejanu Gheorghiță regarding the loan of 725,000 euros are non -realthis being drawn up to be invoked during the criminal trial, respectively to prove that it has held the amounts of money paid for the aforementioned purchases (in the case of the money laundering offense.
We emphasize once again that These documents were falsely drawn up, the defendant in this way to justify that he legally disposed of the amounts of money of which he is accused of submitting them to the process of washing in the ways described ”.
Lupu was investigated for false statements and false testimony, but his file was classified, the source said.
Dănuț Lupu came out of prison in April 2024
Lupu has had several problems with the law over the years. In April 2024 he was released from prison after executing 6 months from the sentence received because he repeatedly drove without holding the related permit.
He spent time behind bars and at the end of the 1980s and in 1990, detained for theft in Scotland and Greece, and 15 years later he was caught at the airport with 80,000 euros.




