The head of ARR, Cristian Anton, was the leader of the group that was cheating on exams for professional certifications / How the group operated - the official accusations of the DNA

The prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) are requesting, on Wednesday, the preventive arrest of the general director of the Romanian Road Authority (ARR), Cristian Anton, who was detained on Tuesday evening, after over 500,000 euros were found in his home.

DNA accuses Cristian Anton that, as the general director of the Romanian Road Authority (A.R.R.), in December 2025, he would have formed an organized criminal group, together with an administrator of a commercial company (Radu Bogdan Alexandru) and the holder of a professional training center. The general director of the Romanian Road Authority (A.R.R.) is accused of taking bribes in a continuous form, using information that is not intended for publicity or allowing unauthorized persons access to this information for the purpose of obtaining undue benefits in a continuous form and forming an organized criminal group.

They "pursued a concerted action whereby, in exchange for sums of money received as bribes, they would allow the fraud of theoretical exams for obtaining professional training certificates, conducted within the A.R.R. (both the computer test and the written test)."

How the criminal group was coordinated by Cristian Anton

According to the anti-corruption prosecutors, Cristian Anton was the leader of the group and is accused of having coordinated and managed the activity of defrauding the theoretical exams and the computer test, having maintained contact with the other two and having received from them the lists of candidates who paid sums of money for the fraud of the exam, as well as part of the money.

Additionally, he "designated the other members of the examination committees in locations chosen by him according to his own interests, directed the group's activity to avoid exposure, decided according to his own interests when he is or is not part of the examination committee, guided R.B.A. and D.D.R.I. to the locations where there are committees controlled by him, kept records of the sums of money received as bribes, and decided the method and location in which the collected sums of money as bribes should be handed over."

"As an examiner, he would have allowed the fraud of the theoretical exam by accepting that certain persons designated by R.B.A. and/or D.D.R.I. solve the computer test in place of the candidates, and by handing over, along with the exam papers, another sheet with the correct answers to the written test, to the candidates who had handed over sums of money; as the general director of A.R.R., he would have designated agreed persons in the examination committees in locations where there is a conducive environment for the fraud of the respective exams," the DNA statement further reveals.

DNA gives the example of how, on the dates of March 1 and 7, 2026, during the exams organized in Arad County and in the municipality of Bucharest, as a member of the examination committee, Cristian Anton would have received from the defendant R.B.A. a total sum of 60,000 euros (30,000 euros for each exam) to allow, in place of the candidates, the computer test to be taken by other persons in R.B.A.'s entourage and, additionally, would have given the candidates sheets with the correct answers to one of the tests.

Furthermore, the prosecutors state that in the period of February - March 2026, as a member of the examination committee, Anton would have received the sum of 34,000 euros from a total of 54,800 euros from R.B.A., in exchange for ensuring the fraudulent promotion of the exams conducted in the municipality of Bucharest (February 28, 2026), Arad County (March 1, 2026), and Mehedinți County (February 21, 2026), by the candidates indicated by R.B.A., who would have offered sums of money to pass the exam. Also, on March 17, 2026, Anton would have accepted the promise of receiving the difference of 20,800 euros, which would be offered to him at a later date, 5,000 euros from the suspect D.D.R.I. and 15,800 euros from the defendant R.B.A., the DNA statement shows.

On the occasion of the aforementioned exams, R.B.A. would have demanded and received a total sum of at least 113,000 euros from several candidates, directly or through holders of professional training schools, in exchange for the promise that he would intervene with the members of the examination committee, so that they would fraudulently promote the exams. For example, at the exam on February 21, 2026, in Mehedinți County, he would have demanded and received a total sum of at least 22,000 euros from over 100 candidates, directly or through holders of professional training schools.

We remind you that following the searches, the sum of approximately 500,000 euros was identified at Anton's home, and at the homes of the other defendants, sums of money and goods worth a total of approximately 100,000 euros were identified.