News 28 November 2014

Romanian authorities investigate FC Petrolul Ploiesti

Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) said that an investigation involving 25 house searches aimed at dismantling a 19-person criminal gang has led to ‘reasonable suspicion’ that it was set up by administrators from FC Petrolul Ploiesti, in order to finance a takeover of the club. The DIICOT said it was following a complaint from the Directorate General for Fraud, and that the criminal gang specialised in tax evasion and money laundering to the tune of €15.4 million.

‘There is reasonable suspicion that some of the group members, as administrators of S.C. Fotbal Club Petrolul S.A, initiated in 2012 an organised criminal group joined by the other members, in order to create a criminal chain managed by members of the group to improve the financing of S.C. Fotbal Club Petrolul S.A’, read a DIICOT media release. ‘The operations were performed by issuing false documents and fictitious invoices for the purpose of reducing VAT deductions and tax. Also, to establish that trade relations exist between the companies involved in criminal activity, the sports club was charged for different services and delivery of goods, the proceeds being acquired by the group members in order to finance the takeover of the club.’

‘FC Petrolul is satisfied that the current circumstances, involving the owner Dan Capră and General Manager Marius Bucuroiu, will quickly be resolved favourably, and both will resume their activities with the club’, read a Petrolul Ploiesti media release. The club plays in Romania’s Liga I.

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