Oil Terminal clarifies that no searches were carried out at the company’s headquarters on November 12, and that it holds no procedural status in the criminal case investigated by DIICOT concerning a group suspected of tax evasion within the diesel fuel supply chain.
“Oil Terminal informs its shareholders and investors that no searches were conducted at Oil Terminal on November 12, 2026. The company holds no procedural status in this criminal case; it is involved solely as an entity providing the criminal investigation authorities with documents necessary to clarify the facts,” states a notification sent to the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
Furthermore, the company announced that, as of November 12, 2026, Gabriel Daraban has ceased his employment at Oil Terminal, where he held the position of Commercial Director under an individual employment contract. This information supplements a current report published by the company on November 27, 2025.
On Thursday, DIICOT prosecutors and officers from the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime conducted 46 searches in Bucharest and the counties of Constanța, Bacău, Prahova, Galați, and Ilfov. The investigation concerns the formation of an organized criminal group, tax evasion, the illegal acquisition of funds, fraud, the rigging of public tenders, and abuse of office-offenses that, in some instances, were committed on a continuing basis and resulted in particularly serious consequences, according to Agerpres.
According to judicial sources, those targeted by the investigation include the head of the Constanța Customs Office and customs inspectors from the same county, the head of the tax inspection division at the Bacău branch of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF), executives from Oil Terminal Constanța, and employees of CEC Bank in Bucharest.
The raids also involve Gabriel Daraban, who resigned from his position as Commercial Director of Oil Terminal just one day earlier. He is the brother of Mihai Daraban, the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania-the same individual who paid for private flights to Mykonos for politicians, magistrates, and businesspeople.
In a statement issued on Thursday, DIICOT clarified that, based on the evidence gathered thus far, there is no indication that the diesel fuel sold by members of the group originated from distributors in the Russian Federation. The investigation focuses primarily on the circumvention of tax obligations related to the payment of VAT and excise duties on the sale of petroleum products.