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Romania emergency chief Raed Arafat charged in helicopter smuggling case
Prosecutors estimate that the alleged failure to complete customs procedures and pay import VAT caused losses of RON 4.4 million to the state budget.
Irina Marica · Journalist
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Raed Arafat, head of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), has been formally charged in a smuggling investigation concerning a helicopter brought into Romania without allegedly paying the required import VAT, Agerpres reported. Arafat confirmed his new legal status on Friday, September 11, as he arrived at the Military Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Military Court of Appeal.
“I was informed that I now have the status of defendant in the ‘smuggling’ case, and I put that in quotation marks, involving the helicopter,” Raed Arafat said.
