Romanian prosecutors found EUR 600,000 in a safe in the house of the head of acquisitions with the Romanian Tax Administration (ANAF), Dan Stroe. He was unable to justify the money, according to Mediafax newswire, quoting unnamed sources.

The Police are currently investigating a EUR 40 million yearly tax evasion scheme running since 2010. Around 125 people were brought in for questioning in this case. Prosecutors seized documents, printers, computers, as well as a sword and several hunting weapons from some of the suspects' houses.

The crime group was allegedly involved in tax evasion and money laundering.

Four companies and groups of companies have been importing and delivering sugar from and to the EU market without registering the operations in their accounting while also registering non-existing operations in order to benefits from illegal VAT reimbursement from the state.

PSD Senator Cezar Magureanu, who between 2010 and 2012 was with the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), and several employees of the Tax Administration (ANAF) are also being investigated as part of the same group.

The Police started searches of suspects' homes on Tuesday morning (July 24 ).

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