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A Russian citizen entered into a plea agreement with the prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice after using a fake citizenship certificate to obtain Romanian documents

Cristiana Dida

30 October 2026, 10:04

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A citizen of the Russian Federation has entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ), after using a fake citizenship certificate to obtain Romanian identity documents. The case was referred to the District 6 Court, which is due to rule on the agreement.

According to prosecutors, on January 25, 2024, the man submitted, through an unidentified person, a forged document to the District 6 Civil Status Service, falsely attesting that he was a Romanian citizen. The purpose was to transcribe the birth certificate, assign a personal numeric code (CNP), and issue Romanian documents.

On February 28, 2024, the same document was submitted to the population records service in order to obtain an identity card. In both situations, two female employees were induced to falsely record that the applicant had appeared in person, although he was not in Romania.

The defendant admitted his guilt for the use of forged documents, instigation to intellectual forgery, and instigation to computer forgery. Prosecutors established a sentence of one year and four months in prison, with postponement of the enforcement of the sentence and a two-year supervision period. The fraudulently obtained birth certificate, identity card, and passport were canceled.

The investigation is part of a broader context involving networks that allegedly facilitated, in northern Moldova and Bucharest, the illegal acquisition of Romanian documents for citizens of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia.

Context: other cases in Romania involving forged Romanian citizenship certificates used to obtain documents

Previously, the Prosecutor General’s Office sent 16 Russian citizens to trial, accused of having used forged citizenship certificates to obtain Romanian documents. According to the prosecutors, between February and July 2024, the defendants allegedly used certificates purportedly issued by Romanian diplomatic missions in Russia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Moldova to obtain transcriptions of birth records, personal identification numbers, birth certificates, identity cards, and passports; the prosecutor requested the annulment of both the counterfeit certificates and all documents subsequently issued on their basis.

In another case, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced that two Russian citizens from Moscow and Saint Petersburg had been sent to trial for the use of forged documents after presenting Romanian authorities with citizenship certificates that they claimed had been issued in 2023 by the Romanian Embassy in Bratislava. The documents were allegedly used to transcribe Russian birth certificates at the Civil Status Service of Sector 6, and on their basis they allegedly obtained identity cards and electronic passports; the investigation also brought attention to the networks that allegedly facilitated the fraudulent acquisition of citizenship, including a HotNews investigation that mentioned a company from Bashkortostan that allegedly requested 7,500 euros for such documents.