The police and prosecutors are conducting 19 searches in Bucharest and the counties of Ilfov, Giurgiu, and Prahova, in a real estate fraud case.

Police and prosecutors from the Prosecutor's Office next to the High Court of Cassation and Justice conducted on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 19 searches as part of an investigation into real estate fraud and money laundering. These actions took place in Bucharest, Ilfov, Giurgiu, and Prahova, targeting apartments in an unfinished residential complex.

The individuals under investigation are alleged to have sold the same apartments to multiple buyers, without them being informed about the actual legal situation. The estimated damage is approximately 16 million lei.

The searches target both individuals, managers of commercial companies, as well as non-banking financial institutions, and prosecutors are looking for evidence to complete the case. It is suspected that the money obtained from these transactions was laundered through successive transfers between the accounts of several companies controlled by the same individuals.