After three hours of hearings, Alin Ionescu, the owner of Shelter security firm in Romania, was detained for 24 hours in a case of tax evasion in which the damage amounts to EUR 10 million. Prosecutors will take him to the court today, September 30, asking for his preventive arrest, reports local Digi24.

For three years, fictitious services and purchases were allegedly registered in the accountancy books of companies controlled by individuals close to Alin Ionescu, the owner of the security firm. Sources close to the investigation say the ghost companies didn’t have employees for security services nor police authorization for such activities, according to Digi24.

The police and prosecutors conducted on Monday morning, September 29, a series of searches at several security firms in Bucharest and Ilfov county, for tax evasion.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com