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Prosecutors with the Directorate for Investigating of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) calculated total damage of over one billion lei in the cases they solved in 2020, when they also ordered liens worth 132 million lei, according to the DIICOT 2020 activity report.
The total value of assets under lien in the cases sent to court in 2020 was of 132,740,256 lei versus 191,549,932 lei in 2019.
In 2020, DIICOT prosecutors sent 3,791 defendants to court (an increase by 9.41% from 2019), of which 1,182 in pre-trial detention, by drawing up 1,883 indictments and plea agreements, up 10 % y-o-y.
Of the number of cases that ended in indictment or plea agreement last year, the most significant share was made up of drug trafficking cases (67.92% - 1,279), then cybercrime cases (14.18% - 267) and cases entailing trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable persons (6.53% - 123).
