{"id":33623,"date":"2015-04-29T05:55:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riseproject.ro\/investigations\/uncategorized\/the-hunt-undercover-among-thieves-in-denmark\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T10:31:29","slug":"the-hunt-undercover-among-thieves-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"investigations","link":"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/en\/investigations\/uncategorized\/the-hunt-undercover-among-thieves-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunt: Undercover Among Thieves in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Journalists from Rise Project travelled to Denmark where they infiltrated a criminal group composed of Romanians living in Copenhagen. Going undercover for three weeks, they discovered the criminal group\u2019s strategies of using theft, burglary and identity theft to commit complex financial frauds. The investigation resulted in a documentary produced with the help of the Danish publication Ekstra Bladet and broadcast on TV3 Denmark.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ekstrabladet.dk\/embed\/video?clipid=117465&amp;id=200&amp;target=embedplayer&amp;vptag=thehunt&amp;vpshare=thehunt&amp;channel=thehunt&amp;programme=%3Chttp:\/\/ekstrabladet.dk\/embed\/video?clipid=117465&amp;id=200&amp;target=embedplayer&amp;vptag=thehunt&amp;vpshare=thehunt&amp;channel=thehunt&amp;programme=thehunt%3E\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<p>After a thirty-eight hour journey by bus to Copenhagen, RISE Project reporters booked a room at a hotel called \u201cContinent,\u201d a budget accommodation hosting mostly immigrants in search of a better life abroad. The hotel became well-known in Denmark after it became public that murders had taken place on its premises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continent Hotel is located in N\u00f8rrebro, a neighborhood known in Copenhagen for its black market exchange for jewelry, guns and high-risk drugs in addition to prostitution. It is also a neighborhood mostly populated by the local Muslim community. Jihadists living in N\u00f8rrebro were behind armed attacks on Danish journalists and cartoonists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On arriving at the hotel, the reporters were greeted by Caterina, a Polish women who already knew a few Romanian words due to the hundreds of Romanians guests who have stayed at the hotel over the years. She said many Romanians come here for the \u201cfive-finger-discount,\u201d a reference to stealing. Everyone laughed, and after a few moments she said that the phenomenon inspired her to name her cat \u201cBandit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Continent is a five-story hotel with only one bathroom on each floor, yet it was still fully booked with over one hundred guests. Each room hosted several people, some contained as many eight beds. The filth permeated everything. During the investigation, one of the journalists got fleas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following day, the reporters put on their dingiest clothes, took several hidden cameras and went for a walk in search of Romanian thieves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6763\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Roberto-din-Titan-bun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Roberto-din-Titan-bun-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto din Titan\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Roberto-din-Titan-bun-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Roberto-din-Titan-bun.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto din Titan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In most of the world\u2019s largest cities, train stations have an abnormally high crime rate. For this reason, the reporters headed toward the station. They spotted a dark haired Romanian looking figure among an entire boulevard filled with blonde Scandinavians. His name was Roberto and he was from Bucharest. The two reporters approached him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know where is the\u2026 (continued in Romanian)\u2026how do you say train station?\u201d said one reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, are you Romanians? You can speak Romanian then!\u201d said Roberto.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The friendship started. The reporters discovered Roberta was from the Titan neighborhood of Bucharest, and had come to Denmark a few years back after \u201csome problems with the law in Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reporters told Roberto they had come to Denmark to \u201cwork,\u201d and that they have no education and would do anything for some Danish Crowns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roberto gave a short introductory speech on how to survive in Copenhagen. Over the next hour, while walking around with Roberto, the reporters were taught how they could survive without worrying about living expenses or other financial burdens in one of the world\u2019s most expensive cities .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this exchange store you can exchange Euro into Danish Crowns with no commission. At this pawn shop you can sell gold at the best price, if you have any. These Arabs will buy any phone you get. Here you can find cheap underwear. There you can buy cheap sweat suits. At this place you can eat for free if you say you\u2019re doing drugs. You get free shoes here. And here you can get a free room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roberto gave the reporters two \u201cessential\u201d pieces of advice. \u201cNever carry cash, because if they search you they\u2019ll confiscate if you can\u2019t justify it. And don\u2019t go to the embassy, or they\u2019ll expel you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roberto took the two reporters to St. Mary\u2019s Church, a place with the cheapest coffee around and where many Romanian thieves and beggars meet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The church was full of people who came to Denmark to steal. Some of them had phones. Others knew how to break the phone\u2019s access codes. Women smelled sample bottles of perfume and made plans to send them back home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gelu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There, the lesson continued from a man named Gelu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you get your hands on an iPhone with an iCloud account, you turn it off immediately and send it back home to sell its parts. Until then, you wrap it in tinfoil so it\u2019s not detectable by satellite, because they can trace you down.\u201d Everyone knew that a stolen iPhone with an active iCloud account could turn you into a police \u201cvictim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The thieves were primarily focused on phones and bags with laptops. Gelu, however, used what he called his \u201cpianists hands\u201d to do something different. He was robbing drunk people of their watches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gelu shines shoes in Copenhagen\u2019s old town until 3AM each day for ten crowns. But after 3AM, when people are drunk, he switches jobs and starts stealing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On one of the tables in St. Mary\u2019s church, Gelu showed the reporters a Patek Philippe watch, one of the most expensive Swiss watch brands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most Patek Philippe watches cost over fifteen thousand dollars. Gelu said he had sold a Rolex to some Arabs for two thousand dollars. He said he just found the watch on the cycling path. With 350 kilometers of cycling paths in Copenhagen, the reporters doubted he found that story. They convinced him to have a watch expert verify its authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gelu was supposed to return to Romania in twenty four hours, taking the watch with him. The reporters, already professional thieves in everyone\u2019s eyes, proposed a deal: If they could find a client for the 18 karat gold Patek Philippe watch before he left could they take a twenty percent cut in the sale? The starting price on the black market is five thousand euros and the reporters\u2019 share would be one thousand euros (and a bottle of wine).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t enough time to find a real watch expert, so one of the Ekstra Bladet journalists went to a fancy restaurant in the center of Copenhagen to pose as the expert. Another journalist sat with a camera at a different table pretending to be a tourist overwhelmed by the restaurant\u2019s extensive menu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RISE Project reporters entered the restaurant with Gelu to negotiate with the watch expert. Video footage and the photographs taken during the meeting demonstrated that Gelu\u2019s uncle had sent him a fake Patek Philippe from Switzerland.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQ-7mk8XbaE\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viorel from Sibiu &#8211; From the iPhone 6 to Complex Tax Fraud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gelu, Roberto and the other thieves hanging around St. Mary\u2019s church were disorganized, each stealing or begging on his own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, at the Continent Hotel, the RISE Project reporters managed to get in touch with an organized group of thieves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each evening, the undercover reporters were spending time with different Romanians staying at the hotel: hackers, thieves, beggars, pimps and prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Viorel-Caldarar-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Viorel-Caldarar-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Viorel C\u0103ld\u0103rar\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Viorel-Caldarar-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Viorel-Caldarar-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Viorel-Caldarar-2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viorel C\u0103ld\u0103rar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the thieves, Viorel, who begged during the day, actually served as a link to an important organized crime group. Only 23 years old, he was from Arpa\u0219u de Sus village in Sibiu County Romania, where he had a wife, child and large household.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Begging is illegal in Denmark, but the social protection service has made it possible for beggars to sell certain magazines they buy for less than 10 Romanian lei (about two euro) for up to 100 lei.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viorel and his family have been doing this for over two years. Before Denmark, they worked in Italy. Viorel told the reporters that he would go to the South of Italy with his uncle, Danciu Grancea, and obtain fake IDs with deceased people\u2019s names. With the new, Italian IDs, they would borrow luxurious cars, re-register them in Romania and sell them for a better price.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After an investigation, they were caught and arrested. But their case was closed after a prosecutor decided not to open criminal investigations. Viorel said that the prosecutor had been bribed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Danciu Grancea, Viorel\u2019s uncle, also had other crimes on his record including currency counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A criminal file put together by the Romanian Prosecutors Office attached to the Odorheiu Secuiesc Court states that Danciu Grancea received a one year and six month suspended jail sentence. He was caught in possession of 9,600 counterfeit euro in a supermarket parking lot in Sibiu after purchasing 3,500 in fake Euro. According to telephone conversations listed in his file, Danciu was planning to buy and put into circulation an additional 40,000 fake euro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viorel said that after all these incidents, his uncle decided to stop doing business in Romania and moved with his family to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each night, Viorel shared with the two reporters his experiences stealing. He explained how he stole telephones together with other groups of Romanians; how he stole bicycles that he later sold in Romania; and how his begging is, actually, a cover job that helps him commit more serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The money made by Viorel C\u0103ld\u0103rar and his uncle, Daniel Grancea, was invested in Romania in purchasing land and a small cattle and horse farm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viorel took one of the RISE reporters in his room at the Continent Hotel to show him his money. He had, in total, over 470 million old Romanian Lei. He got all this money together with his parents in just one month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danciu Grancea, from Mailat to Ali Yaser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Feature-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6765 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Feature-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Feature 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Feature-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Feature-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Feature-2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danciu Grancea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Danciu Grancea is no longer working with his nephew. He has business with several Arabs he met in Denmark. Among them is the Syrian Ali Abdulhussein Yesar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Danciu rents homes from Ali Yesar, where Danciu takes in beggars and robbers who either work for him or pay rent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RISE reporters went several times to Danciu\u2019s house on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Over sixty Romanians lived in the eight-room house.The smell was so unpleasant and living conditions so bad Danciu made a separate entrance for only his and his family\u2019s use.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the reporters told Danciu he knew how to break iCloud accounts. Soon after, people living in the house handed him several stolen phones. They were all kept in tinfoil so that they could not be detected by satellite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because he could not make enough money from only stealing and rent, Danciu Grancea made himself the link between poor Romanians and the Arab community in Denmark. On the wall of his house near the entrance were several mail boxes with the names of Arab citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Danciu\u2019s Romanians were paid 4000 euro each and used as facilitators in ghost companies involved in tax fraud and money laundering. The house where Danciu lived was even the registered place of business for some of those companies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the reporters told Danciu he wanted to get into this business by coming a facilitator for one of the group\u2019s companies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reporter would become the director of a ghost company in exchange for 5000 euro from the Arab. 1000 euro would be Danciu\u2019s cut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you speak English?\u201d Danciu asked the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d said the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s very good because you can go to the bank and where else there is to go all by yourself, and this could bring more money,\u201d said Danciu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reporter earned Danciu\u2019s trust by telling him that he also has a criminal record and many friends who wished to earn lots of money fast. He told Danciu he could bring groups of people to commit financial fraud. All those people could have companies on their names. Danciu admitted he was not sure what the companies actually did, but he was certain that the Arabs were stealing lots of money from banks and the Danish state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every company opened in a Romanian\u2019s name takes in a few million Danish Crowns. Afterward, it is closed down and the director either disappears or takes over another company. Legal sources confirmed to the Ekstra Bladet journalists that the names of Danciu Grancea and Ali Yesar are monitored by the authorities for tax evasion and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Danish Police did not mention the exact financial damage the Ali Yesar &#8211; Danciu network has done, but confirmed it was about \u201cseveral million Danish Crown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RISE Project reporters contacted Andrei Rosu\u0219, one of the facilitators used by the Arabs in money laundering. Rosu\u0219 had been the manager of Sumer Exchange &amp; Travel company for six months. \u201cDon\u2019t think I did that willingly. I was forced to go to the banks and sign all those documents,\u201d said Rosu\u0219.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Epilogue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Danish reporters interviewed Danciu Grancea and Viorel C\u0103ld\u0103rar. None of them admitted to having ever done anything illegal in Denmark. Viorel C\u0103ld\u0103rar\u2019s father said he once stole something from a supermarket \u2013 \u201csome salami\u201d \u2013 and added that he still regrets it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks after the confrontation with Danciu Grancea, the house where the beggars and thieves were brought to in Denmark had been abandoned. Some of the former occupants returned to Romania, others are still \u201cworking\u201d in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor Ilie, Sergiu Brega<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34621,"template":"","tags":[],"investigationcat":[],"class_list":["post-33623","investigations","type-investigations","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Hunt: Undercover Among Thieves in Denmark &#8226; Rise Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riseproject.ro\/en\/investigations\/uncategorized\/the-hunt-undercover-among-thieves-in-denmark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hunt: Undercover Among Thieves in Denmark &#8226; Rise Project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Journalists from Rise Project travelled to Denmark where they infiltrated a criminal group composed of Romanians living in Copenhagen. 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