The officers from the Directorate for Countering
Cross-border Crime within G.I.B.P., together with the D.I.I.C.O.T.
prosecutors and with the support of the Romanian Information
System, managed to detect a network of drug traffickers (after
monitoring approximately 3 months), who introduced and traded
important quantities of heroine in Romania.
The leader of the network - Turkish citizen Halil Deveci - was
apprehended for the second time by the border policemen within the
Directorate for Countering Cross-border Crime; in 2006 was charged
with committing international trafficking in drugs (he had
organized a transport of over 3.5 kilos of heroine from Turkey to
Romania) and in his file the Court disposed to be trialed in
freedom.
Other three members of the network found in the possession of
approximately 2 kilos of heroine - also, with criminal antecedents,
including for trafficking with drugs - were detained by the
anti-drug border policemen.
The heroine - amounting to 60.000 Euro - was intended for the
market in Bucharest, in the network being also involved principal
drug dealers selling "merchandise" to the street dealers in
Bucharest.
If the heroine had reached the market, the entire network would
have gained a "profit" of over 200.000 Euro.
MONITORING
Three months ago, the anti-drug border policemen within the Directorate for Countering Cross-border Crime (G.I.B.P.) obtained information according to which a Turkish citizen - known by our employees as an organizer of heroine transports on the Turkish - Romanian route - reactivated the transport network, following to introduce in our country a certain amount of drugs.
The person involved - Halil Deveci, aged 47 - was detained by the anti-drug border policemen and the D.I.I.C.O.T. prosecutors, in March 2006, being charged with committing international trafficking with great risk drugs and setting up of an organized crime group.
At that time, following certain broad informational-operative actions it was established that the Turkish citizen together with another 9 persons (also detained) were members of a drug trafficking network which supplied the target market from Bucharest and Constanta.
During the actions carried out at that time, 3.550 kilos of heroine, 3 kilos of caffeine (used for the dilution of heroine), 9 electrical engines used for the transportation of the drugs, 2 BMW luxury vehicles, amounts of money in lei and foreign currency - approximately 11.000 Euro, patterns and press for manufacturing the heroine bricks and other tools used for the same reason were confiscated. A distraint was also levied upon the house of two of the traffickers (a villa with 20 rooms, endowed with hi-tech equipment, including audio-video surveillance system and cinema hall).
As a result of the evidence from the file, the Court disposed to arrest four of the network members (among which Halil Deveci); the arrest was maintained during the criminal prosecution and in the trial phase, until December 2008 (when the Court decided to trial the members of the network in freedom).
Under these conditions, the Turkish citizen Halil Deveci considered that he could carry on his criminal activity, thus, immediately after his exit from arrest, he recruited two Romanian citizens - Aurelian B., aged 27, from Bacau county and Iulian P., aged 32, from Bucharest - whom he "asked for their support" in order to transport heroine from Turkey to Romania, in exchange of certain amounts of money, between 500 and 1.000 Euro, for each transport (the transportation costs were, also, "reimbursed" by the Turkish citizen).
The anti-drug border policemen obtained information regarding the organization of the heroine transport, reason for which, together with the D.I.I.C.O.T. prosecutors proceeded to monitor the members of the "new network" and, subsequently, to organize the flagrant.
THE FLAGRANT
On Saturday, 14.02.2009, around 11.30 p.m., the two Romanian citizens - Aurelian B. and Iulian P. - presented themselves in order to enter the country, through Giurgiu - Road Border Crossing Point, traveling as passengers in two different buses returning from Turkey.
Because the border policemen wanted to detain all the members of the network, they monitored the departure of the two men to Bucharest and their action mode.
Thus, they noticed that, Aurelian B. met with Iulian P. in the same night, in Bucharest, in Filaret Bus station area, and handed over the "merchandise" (hidden in a travel bag); the latter went to Constanta on Sunday morning (15.02.2009).
Somewhere near Ovidiu locality - Constanta County, Iulian met with Halil Deveci and delivered the heroine.
Further on, the Turkish citizen contacted the beneficiary of the "merchandise" - Vasilica D., known as "Carmen", from Bucharest - who, in 2006, was detained by the anti-drug border policemen and now she is being trialed in freedom in the same case in which Halil Deveci was involved.
At the moment of the meeting between the Turkish citizen and Vasilica D., established in Bucharest, the border policemen organized the flagrant and the two persons were detained. In the travel bag a total quantity of approximately 2 kilos of heroine was found.
Simultaneously, the other two heroine transporters were also detained - Aurelian B. and Iulian P.
It was ascertained that the heroine - amounting to 60.000 Euro - was destined for the market in Bucharest, Vasilica D. being one of the main drug dealers selling the "merchandise" to the street dealers from Bucharest.
Within the first hearings, she stated that she gave the Turkish citizen money in advance in order to buy the heroine; the rest of the money would be paid after having sold it to the street dealers.
If the heroine had reached the market, the entire network would have gained a "profit" of over 200.000 Euro.
PENALTY
The four persons were detained by the D.I.I.C.O.T. prosecutors and brought before the Court which issued preventive arrest warrants for 29 days on their names.
If they are found guilty as charged, the persons involved may be imprisoned up to 25 years.
The border policemen together with the D.I.I.C.O.T. prosecutors are carrying on the investigations in order to identify other members of the network, to document and to find evidence for the entire criminal activity.