13 million lei were deposited on the treasury accounts of the Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets of the CNA
13,000,000 lei entered the treasury accounts of the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency of CNA, on October 26, 2023. Of the total amount, 11 million lei are seizures applied on the basis of the delegations of the Customs Service, and another 2 million lei represents criminal bodies, in a smuggling case, submitted to the Agency for administration.
At the moment, about 368 million lei are deposited on ARBI’s treasury accounts. Of the total amount, over 280 million lei are seized in cases of money laundering, 48 million lei – for corruption offences, 32 million lei – for smuggling and another over 6 million lei for crime cases organized crime, drug trafficking and human trafficking. Since its creation, ARBI has seized assets worth over 8 billion lei.
The Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets (ARBI) is an autonomous subdivision within the National Anticorruption Center (CNA) that is in charge of conducting parallel financial investigations, the evaluation, administration and capitalization of confiscated criminal assets, as well as the record of these assets.
The agency states that the process of recovery of criminal assets is considered completed once the court adopts the confiscation decision, after the conviction of the person.
