Three jailed in Vaslui drug case with 6.41g cannabis seized
The Iasi Court of Appeal finally sentenced three Vaslui men to 4 years, 6 years and 3 years and 6 months for trafficking cannabis alongside MDMA, cathinones and amphetamine. Police seized 6.41 grams of cannabis plus MDMA tablets and confiscated 1,000 lei from cannabis sales.
🇷🇴 Vaslui, Vaslui County · Romania
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Charged
5
Cannabis
6.41 g
On 29 October 2026 the Iasi Court of Appeal finally closed the Vaslui
drug-trafficking case.[1][2]Vlad-George Gavril must serve four years in prison
for continued trafficking in risk and high-risk drugs.[3]Stefan-Danut
Mormenchi, sentenced as a repeat offender, must serve six years in prison.[1]Dumitru-Cristian Zlatan’s initial four-year term was reduced on appeal to three
years and six months after the court counted three material acts instead of
four.[1]Stefan Brudiu received a two-year prison term suspended under
supervision for two years with an obligation to perform 120 days of unpaid
community work, while minor Crina Badarau received a six-month non-custodial
educational supervision measure.[1]
Investigators identified cannabis, 3-CMC, 4-CMC, MDMA and amphetamine among the
substances in the case.[3]From Mormenchi the court ordered confiscation of
6.41 grams of cannabis, 54 tablets containing MDMA, five other MDMA tablets and
powder quantities with MDMA, amphetamine and caffeine.[1][2]From Zlatan the
court ordered confiscation of 1,000 lei from two transactions in February and
March 2025 in which cannabis and substances containing 4-CMC were sold.[1][2]
The file was handled by DIICOT’s Vaslui Territorial Office with officers of the
Vaslui Organized Crime Combat Service, using surveillance and authorized drug
purchases.[1]The three custodial defendants keep executable terms of four
years, six years and three years and six months, with the other two keeping the
first-instance measures.[1]
Only the 6.41 grams of cannabis from Mormenchi is separately weighed; the cannabis sold by Zlatan has no separate weight and MDMA, amphetamine and cathinone quantities are excluded from cannabis figures.
Three different custodial terms of 4 years, 6 years and 3 years and 6 months cannot be represented in the single prison figure, so no prison figure is given.
Both pages carry lead photos captioned only with the headline and no credit establishing that they show this case, so no media entry is listed.
The second outlet says Stefan Brudiu was the minor given community work, while the detailed account distinguishes suspended-sentence defendant Brudiu from minor Crina Badarau; the report follows the detailed account.
One line refers to an appeal against a Tribunalul Iasi conviction while the judgment history otherwise names Tribunalul Vaslui on 29 April 2026; the report uses Vaslui as the first-instance court.
The page's lead image is captioned only with the headline and carries no credit establishing that it shows this case, so no media entry is listed.
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