Weapons Stolen From Romanian Military Base Functional, Unused – Police Chief

The weapons found following searches in the case of the theft at the Romanian military base in Ciorogarla are functional and unused, as they were stolen without their ammunition, Romanian Police department inspector general Petre Toba said Monday.

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Toba said the perpetrators had no intention of firing the weapons, as they had not purchased ammunition even by the time the weapons had been found. Toba said the theft's motive has not been ascertained yet, but Codrut Olaru, head of organized crime department DIICOT, said investigators are considering two possibilities.

One is that the weapons were to be traded for heroin; another is that they would outfit a group which the DIICOT chief prosecutor said was inclined to acts of violence.

Toba said police expended significant material, logistic and human resources towards solving the case: trace evidence was compared to the genetic information of over 10,000 people and hundreds of laboratory analyses on 500 traces and microtraces were conducted. The forensic investigation cost around EUR50,000.

Investigators on Sunday found over 30 weapons of the ones stolen in January from a warehouse in the Romanian military base in Ciorogarla and Olaru said six of 15 people detained are the authors of the theft, according to DNA tests.

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