DIICOT raids seven homes in Dâmbovița over online cannabis seed orders
On 19 November 2025 organised-crime police and DIICOT prosecutors searched seven addresses in Dâmbovița County where three suspects are accused of repeatedly buying cannabis seeds through mobile apps in 2025 to start commercial grows; questioning continued at the territorial DIICOT office.
On 19 November 2025 officers from the Dâmbovița organised-crime service, DIICOT territorial
prosecutors, Ploiești anti-mafia police and gendarmes executed seven home search warrants across
Dâmbovița County in a high-risk drug-trafficking case.[1][2]
Investigators said that throughout 2025 three suspects repeatedly bought cannabis seeds through
online applications to start and expand illegal crops meant for sale.[1][2]Hearings were held at
the DIICOT territorial office in Dâmbovița; the statements stress that the accused retain
presumption of innocence.[1][2]The opened accounts name no plants or quantities seized during
the raids.[1][2]
Case data
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Brăila organised-crime police and DIICOT prosecutors detained a 26-year-old on 5 November 2026 and searched two addresses in the city, recovering cannabis, a grinder and cash in lei and euros. Prosecutors asked the Brăila Tribunal to hold the person in 30 days' preventive arrest, and accuse them of selling cannabis and the synthetic drug 3-CMC, known in Romania as cristal.
DIICOT Cluj and organised-crime police detained two men aged 49 and 51 on 22 October 2026 after documenting an outdoor cannabis grow in Florești meant for sale. Searches seized 20 plants up to three metres tall plus packaged cannabis; a judge ordered 30-day preventive arrest for both.
DIICOT and Covasna organised-crime police searched a home in Sfântu Gheorghe on 1 October 2026 and seized 60 indoor cannabis plants and 5.4 kilograms in vacuum bags from a 62-year-old man they said had grown the crop for sale throughout 2026. Prosecutors detained him and asked a court for 30-day preventive arrest.
DIICOT prosecutors and organised-crime police carried out five searches after finding a cannabis plantation in an isolated area outside Berzovia, run by four suspects aged 19 to 53 who bought seeds from Spain. The four were taken for questioning.
