Four held over indoor cannabis grows in Singureni after Czech seed imports
Border police and DIICOT detained four men aged 29 to 43 on 8 September 2026 over an organized group that allegedly imported cannabis seeds from Czechia by courier and ran indoor grows in Singureni, Giurgiu, seizing more than 90 plants and about 42 kg of cannabis material; a judge ordered 30 days' preventive arrest.
🇷🇴 Singureni, Giurgiu County · Romania
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Arrested
4
Plants destroyed
90
Cannabis
42 kg
Prosecutors of Romania’s DIICOT central structure, working with Bucharest airport border police,
broke up a group suspected of organized risk-drug trafficking after searches linked to indoor
cannabis cultivation in Singureni, Giurgiu county.[1][2]
They said that between June and September 2026 four men, aged 29 to 43, acted under a
43-year-old leader to import cannabis seeds from Czechia by air courier, then set up and tended
indoor grows for sale.[1][2]On 8 September 2026 prosecutors ordered all four detained; searches
recovered more than 90 cannabis plants, about 4 kilograms of cannabis, about 38 kilograms of
dried plant material in sacks, buds and grow equipment.[1][2]
On 9 September a Bucharest judge placed them in 30 days’ preventive arrest, the agencies
reported.[1][2]Gendarmes supported the action, and the releases noted that suspects remain
presumed innocent pending trial.[1][2]
The communiqué gives "over 90" plants and about 4 kg of cannabis plus about 38 kg of dried vegetative matter; the stored cannabis total treats that as roughly 42 kg combined.
Suspects were not named in the official releases opened here.
How many separate indoor sites were searched in Singureni was not specified.
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.
On 14 August 2026 DIICOT and organized-crime police caught two men tending an outdoor cannabis plot in extravilan Lipova on the Mureș, seizing 101 plants weighing about 65 kg of green material; both were detained and a judge later ordered 30 days' preventive arrest.
