Two police officers from the Capital, detained for bribery after a flagrant. How they divided their spade
Two police officers from the Detention and Preventive Arrest Center no. 10 of the Capital Police, related to Section 19, were detained after the prosecutors caught them red-handed, being suspected of having received money to allow a woman's unauthorized access to a prisoner. Prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bucharest Court asked the court to issue preventive arrest warrants.
The police allegedly received a bribe for the woman's unauthorized access to the center. PHOTO Shutterstock
On Friday, May 8, criminal proceedings were initiated against the two agents: one aged 48, investigated for two bribery offences, and another 25-year-old, investigated for one bribery offence. The two are accused of having received money from a woman to facilitate her access to detention, outside of the legal conditions, for intimate visits.
Caught in the act
According to the prosecutors, the first incident took place on April 22, when the 48-year-old agent would have received 50 euros from the woman and 200 lei from the visited inmate, to allow her to enter the center. The policemen were then caught red-handed on May 7.
“On May 7, 2026, both defendants were caught in the act, having on them sums of money received from the same female person. It was established that, during the same day, the 48-year-old defendant received the sum of 100 euros, of which he remitted 50 euros to the other defendant, his shift colleague, in order for them to facilitate the unauthorized access of women inside the centeri”, says a press release from the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bucharest Court.
On Thursday, prosecutors conducted a search at the headquarters of the Detention and Preventive Arrest Center. The two agents were detained for 24 hours, and on Friday the prosecutors requested the Bucharest Court to issue preventive arrest warrants.
We remind you that, last year, a police officer from Bucharest was sentenced to two years, five months and ten days in prison with suspension, after admitting that he received bribes from detainees to bring them prohibited goods and facilitate their access to spaces not provided for by law.
In another case, the DNA prosecutors describe, in the report on the corruption investigation at the Sector 5 City Hall, how a local policeman, known by the nickname “Pedro”, allegedly received a bribe of 18,000 euros from a real estate developer for expediting the reception of a residential complex.
