Major energy supplier, suspected of defrauding the state to collect huge subsidies. Multi-location searches

The police are conducting hundreds of searches on Thursday morning to break up some networks specialized in economic and financial crimes, according to News.ro. The total damage estimated in the instrumented files, which target a series of crimes, exceeds 220 million lei.

“Under the coordination of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police, as part of Operation “JUPITER 4″, during today, November 6, 2025, 57 operative actions are being carried out, during which 304 home searches take place in several counties of the country”, the General Prosecutor's Office reported on Thursday.

The instrumented files concern fraud crimes with particularly serious consequences, money laundering, tax evasion, illegal obtaining of funds, the creation of an organized criminal group, embezzlement, abuse of trust by defrauding creditors, fraudulent bankruptcy, qualified smuggling, possession or carrying without the right of weapons not subject to authorization, counterfeiting, illegal access to an IT system, abuse of office, forgery in documents under private signature, forgery in statements, intellectual forgery, computer forgery, use of forgery, material forgery in official documents, crimes regarding the waste regime, the execution of mining activities without a permit or license, cutting trees without the right, theft of trees, entering, modifying or deleting computer data in the integrated information system for forests, trafficking in products or toxic substances, unjustified refusal to present legal documents to the competent bodies and crimes under the gambling regime.

The prosecutors specify that the actions are aimed at the destruction of networks specialized in economic-financial crimes and criminality, responsible for a damage of 221,850,000 lei.

“Another objective is the interruption of illegal activities that bring significant damage to the state budget and affect the proper functioning of strategic economic sectors. The 304 home searches are also aimed at identifying the persons involved, collecting accounting documents and relevant evidence, as well as stopping the development of criminal activities and stopping illegal financial flows. The aim is also to establish insurance measures to recover the damage created. Equally measure, the operation contributes to the consolidation of a fair competitive environment and to ensuring transparency in the formation of prices, by preventing and sanctioning illegal economic practices that can distort the fairness of the market”, the prosecutors also specified.

According to G4Media, these are companies from the Tinmar group, which describes itself as “the largest private energy supplier in Romania”, controlled by businessman Augustin Oancea.

And Antena 3 CNN reported that an energy distributor is targeted by the investigation, but did not specify his name.

According to G4Media, the police and prosecutors are searching 4 companies that are part of the group and the administrators of the companies. These are Energy, Lord Energy, Solprim and Eye Mall.

The charges are fraud with particularly serious consequences and money laundering, according to the cited source.

Prosecutors suspect that the firms were trading energy with each other to artificially raise the price and settle more from the state under the cap-compensation scheme.