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Like Eight People Fooled Three Foreign Citizens in Bucharest. 156,000 Lei Disappeared From Their Bank Cards.

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The police, together with DIICOT, detained eight people working in Sector 3 of the Capital, in a file aimed at illegal access to a computer system. A group of foreign citizens would have been fooled by attempted electronic theft, and the damage amounted to 156,000 lei.
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A business in Sector 3 of the Capital would have been used as a paravant for obtaining banking data from foreign citizens, the investigators argue. The damage claimed in the file reaches approximately 156,000 lei. On Wednesday, police and DIICOT prosecutors carried out an operation in this case, being executed five search warrants and eight [...]

The police, together with DIICOT, detained eight people working in Sector 3 of the Capital, in a file aimed at illegal access to a computer system. A group of foreign citizens would have been fooled by attempted electronic theft, and the damage amounted to 156,000 lei, according to Mediafax. A group of eight people [...] Article How 3 foreign citizens came to Bucharest without 156,000 lei on bank cards appears first in the PS News.

Eight people came to the attention of the investigators in a file on alleged bank fraud committed in Bucharest. Suspects would have obtained PIN codes and biometric data from foreign citizens, after which they would have repeatedly carried out transactions with their cards. The injury calculated until now reaches approximately 156,000 lei. [...]

The police, together with DIICOT, detained eight people working in Sector 3 of the Capital, in a file aimed at illegal access to a computer system. A group of foreign citizens would have been fooled by attempted electronic theft, and the damage amounted to 156,000 lei.

Five searches took place in Bucharest and Ilfov in a file about several people suspected of having taken money from the accounts of foreign tourists in a club in the Old Center.

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Adevarul broke the news in Romania on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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