Economic and property crimes are the most common types of violations in Romania. Over the past years, the number of economic crimes, such as money laundering or tax evasion, has decreased in the country, while still being high compared to European Union (EU) average. In 2022, the police department reported that almost 7,000
. Card fraud has become more common in recent years, and the
peaked at over 16 million Romanian lei in 2021. At the same time, the
has decreased drastically, dropping by approximately 57 percent from 2010.
Corruption crimes
Romania’s
Corruption Perception Index for 2022 reflected the country’s inability of dealing with high-level corruption cases. In 2022, Romania registered an increase of one point having the third lowest score in the European Union, only bested by its neighbors Hungary and Bulgaria. The lack of measures to properly control and to prevent excessive influence and abuse of power from state officials has led 60 percent of Romanians to believe that corruption is part of the business culture. Although over one thousand
defendants were sent to trial for corruption offenses in 2022, the influence of politics on the criminal justice system still affects the independence of the judiciary as a separate power in the state.
Cyber crimes
Cybercrimes are rapidly emerging as one of the most dangerous and harmful crimes of the century. Romania is in the top 10 most cyber secure countries in the world, it is the lead-nation for developing Ukraine's cyber defence and the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) is headquartered in Bucharest. In 2021, approximately 14.4 percent of computers and five percent of mobiles were infected with malware. The most common cyber attack in the country, impacting both individuals and corporations, was
phishing, amounting to nearly 3,331 attacks in June 2022. Additionally,
InfoStealer.AGENTTESLA accounted for 9.78 percent of the malware attack alerts in Romania.
Prison system
The prison system of Romania received a lot of attention in 2023 due to the arrest of Andrew Tate, who related about the poor condition of Romanian jails. In 2022, Romania paid 2.89 million euros in
damages as a result of the European Court of Human Rights Damages judgments on prison conditions. The total
number of prisoners in the country amounted to 23,114 in 2022, nearly six thousand were workers, doing jobs such as dyeing ,plumbing, carpentry and other. The prisoners are also allowed to pursue a education of their choice, over 1.9 thousand of them took part of the
education system, most of them being were enrolled in secondary education and one person in higher education.
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