ANAF controls “in areas that were not targeted in previous years”. Dozens of kilograms of precious metals and jewelery seized
The Minister of Finance, Alexandru Nazare, said on Wednesday that the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) recently carried out “extensive checks” on pawnshops and security companies, areas that “present a high fiscal risk”, but which “were not targeted in previous years”.
According to the minister, on the occasion of these checks there were “confiscations of high-value goods, including approximately 6 kg of gold and diamonds, worth 3.7 million lei; over 32 kg of gold and silver jewelry, worth over 12.5 million lei”.
ANAF carried out “extended checks on 62 security companies and actions aimed at the purchase of luxury goods from unjustified income”, said Alexandru Nazare.
Other controls of the Treasury
Alexandru Nazare claims that the checks made by ANAF recently “targeted complex networks and high-risk sectors”.
In a file on fictitious chains of transactions and illegal VAT refunds, transactions of more than 30 million lei are being investigated and searches have been carried out in 32 locations, the minister said.
In another case, a mechanism of illegal VAT refunds was detected through a fictitious circuit between 8 commercial companies, for which preventive measures were instituted on dozens of buildings and land. The damage exceeds 18 million lei, Nazare said.
“Better results” for ANAF
Alexandru Nazare claims that the actions of the Treasury “have become more and more well-targeted, based on risk analyzes and digital tools, and the large areas of evasion are systematically addressed”, so that “better results in collection, but also in terms of the accelerated return of VAT amounts to the economy” are recorded.
“During January-February 2026, gross receipts from VAT registered a 12.9% increase compared to the same period of 2025 (over 10.2 billion lei),” he added.
The Minister of Finance stated that “the amounts related to VAT actually reimbursed to the business environment registered an increase of 24.5% compared to the same period last year”.
“We have practically stopped the postponement of the VAT refund, a practice rightly complained about for a long time by the business environment,” the official also declared.
