Alistar Security’s owner and seven other, arrested in EUR 3 mln tax evasion case

Bucharest Court ruled the preventive arrest for 30 days of Alistar Security’s owner, Dan Alistar, and of other seven defendants detained in the case of tax evasion and money laundering with a prejudice estimated at EUR 3 million.

The court thus upheld the request of the Bucharest Court’s prosecutors, who detained on Tuesday Dan Alistar, his granddaughter, Melania Alistar, as well as Carmen Nicolae, Catalin Bogdan, Temistocle Bejan, Ionel Popa, Aziz Ciftci and Nicolae Iosub.

The decision can be appealed at Bucharest’s Court of Appeal, which will decide definitively whether the eight defendants should remain under arrest, will be under home arrest or will be investigated at liberty, under judicial control.

Alistar Security’s owner and other 57 people were subpoenaed on Tuesday, after the police raided 75 addresses in Bucharest and other eight counties, in a money laundering and tax evasion case under investigation.

The prejudice produced to the state budget was estimated at about EUR 3 million, and the total amount of money laundered via the evasion circuit is about EUR 10 million.

Sources among the investigators stated for Mediafax that the owner of the security company would have used several “ghost” companies that would have rendered fictional services to Alistar Security, which the company would have paid only on paper, so that it can deduct VAT.