Searches in Suceava and Bucharest in a file regarding identity documents with fictitious residence for people from Russia, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova
Police officers search homes at addresses in Bucharest and Ilfov, September 24, 2024. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
On Tuesday, the prosecutors carry out several searches, including at public institutions, in a case concerning identity documents with fictitious residence for people from the former USSR. The accusations in the file are computer forgery, use of forgery and complicity in computer forgery, in the case of issuing Romanian identity documents that do not conform to reality, regarding the domicile, but the acquisition of Romanian citizenship, according to News.ro.
Sources close to the investigation told News.ro that 15 searches took place in Dumbrăveni commune, Suceava county, including the City Hall and the Public Service for Population Records, but also the mayor's residence and other civil servants.
Some of the natural persons targeted are those who took foreign citizens into space to make them identity documents, the ultimate goal being to obtain a passport.
Two other searches took place in Bucharest, in sectors 1 and 3.
The accusations in the file are of computer forgery, use of forgery and complicity in computer forgery, in the case of issuing Romanian identity documents that do not conform to reality, regarding the domicile, but the acquisition of Romanian citizenship.
“The case prosecutor from the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PÎCCJ) and officers from the IGPR – DIC executed during today, November 25, 2025, a number of 17 home search warrants at the headquarters of some public institutions and at the residences of individuals. The operative activities are carried out in a criminal case in which investigations are carried out under the aspect of committing crimes of computer forgery by civil servants from Suceava county, respectively for use of forgery and complicity in computer forgery by the beneficiaries of identity documents”, the ICCJ Prosecutor's Office reports.
The investigation aims at the destruction of a network that, through officials from a population records service and a town hall, obtained Romanian identity documents inconsistent with reality, in terms of domicile, but also regarding the acquisition of Romanian citizenship for persons born in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and other countries of the former USSR.
“The unreal data refers to falsified citizenship certificates and the person's domicile, which is fictitious, because the beneficiary has never lived at that address, all with the aim of obtaining by the beneficiary an identity document that provides proof of identity, Romanian citizenship and, as the case may be, domicile or residence in Romania”, explains the quoted source.
According to the investigators, the beneficiaries obtained identity cards with the establishment of residence at buildings belonging to Romanian citizens who were not the owners of the respective space – inappropriate or disused buildings – or without the consent of the owners, by drawing up false declarations of taking the space and, implicitly, without their presence in front of the official from the Personal Registration Service.
“In relation to a number of 18 beneficiaries, further criminal prosecution was ordered, because they obtained identity cards and passports on the basis of previously falsified citizenship certificates”, mentions the ICCJ Prosecutor's Office.
The activities were carried out in collaboration with IGPR – DIC, SIAS and the Technical Service within the PÎCCJ.
