Criminal law
Advice and representation at every stage of criminal proceedings.
Advice and representation
We assist individuals and businesses during criminal investigations, preliminary chamber proceedings and trial. Our practice includes appeals, challenges to preventive measures and assistance with sentence enforcement.
Criminal investigations and preliminary chamber proceedings
- Assistance during interviews, searches and other investigative acts.
- Review of the legality of evidence and investigative acts.
- Challenges to preventive measures, seizures and confiscation.
Trial and appeals
- Preparing written defences and evidence for trial.
- Court representation and lodging appeals.
Economic, corruption and official misconduct offences
- Defence in cases concerning tax evasion, embezzlement, money laundering and economic fraud.
- Defence in corruption, abuse of office and negligent performance of official duties cases.
Other criminal matters
- Assistance in cases involving traffic offences, drugs or psychoactive substances.
- Assistance in cybercrime cases.
- Representation in cases concerning offences against persons and property.
Enforcement of sentences and measures
- Assistance in sentence enforcement proceedings.
- Assistance in proceedings concerning measures ordered by final judgments.
Insights
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Beyond the abstract seriousness of the offence: we secured a suspended sentence in a drug trafficking case
We secured a favourable outcome in a criminal case concerning offences of trafficking in risk-category drugs and possession of risk-category and high-risk drugs for personal use, provided for in Article 2(1) and Article 4(1) and (2) of Law No. 143/2000, respectively.
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From a Defective Indictment to the Inability to Commence Trial: The Defence Secures the Return of the Case to DIICOT
Before the Timiș Tribunal, we secured the return to DIICOT of a case concerning allegations of high-risk drug trafficking as a continued offence, following the prosecutor’s failure to remedy essential deficiencies in the indictment.
Read articleSuccess at the Preliminary Chamber Stage: DIICOT Ordered to Clarify the Charges to Define the Subject Matter and Scope of the Trial
We obtained a finding that the indictment was defective in respect of 36 of the 39 alleged acts in a high-risk drug trafficking case, with the Timiș Tribunal ordering the prosecutor to remedy the deficiencies and clarify the charges.
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