The sister of the former interior minister Carmen Dan, under house arrest in the case in which she is accused of a 1.3 million euro fraud

Simona Stan, the sister of former interior minister Carmen Dan, will spend the next 30 days under house arrest, the Bucharest Court decided, cited by Agerpres. The decision is not final and may be appealed.

She was detained on Thursday under the accusation that she used unreal qualities to deceive several people with the total amount of around 1,300,000 euros.

Judicial sources told HotNews on Thursday that Simiona Stan, alias Mariana Popa, managed to deceive several people, whom they convinced to buy apartments and luxury cars from two companies. In reality, these goods did not belong to them, nor to the respective companies.

Mariana Popa was released under judicial control by the Bucharest Court, she was detained yesterday together with Simona Stan.

In this case, Carmen Dan was also called to hearings, as a witness. Businessman Cristi Borcea, former owner of Dinamo, was also called to the hearings as a witness. According to the sources cited by Agerpres, in order to gain the trust of the victims, Simona Stan would have used the names of Carmen Dan and Cristi Borcea, the former financier of the Dinamo Bucharest team.

How the cheating scheme worked

In August 2024, the police of the Capital were notified by several people that they had been deceived regarding the purchase of some houses and some cars.

According to the investigators, from 2022 to the present, two women, aged 51 and 46, respectively, would have created a criminal mechanism by which they would have used unreal qualities – people with decision-making power within refining and marketing companies, respectively transporting petroleum products -, in order to induce the injured persons to acquire movable and immovable goods that were to come out of the patrimony of the respective commercial companies, through their division, and be sold at prices below market value, goods which, in reality, did not belong to the two trading companies.

The research showed that, in order to gain the trust of the victims, one of the women suspected of committing the act would have used the names of known people, according to the Capital Police.

In this context, in order to administer the evidentiary material, on Thursday, the police officers from the Sector 2 Economic Crime Investigation Service executed 16 home search warrants in the city of Bucharest and in the counties of Ilfov, Argeș and Buzau. Following the house searches, several items of interest were identified and seized.