Iosefina Pascal@iosefinapascal
BOMBSHELL leaked Romanian border logs from Bucharest Otopeni Airport (19 Feb 2025) reveal dozens of Ukrainian citizens carrying massive amounts of undocumented cash on flights.
Examples from the official customs sheets:
• Holban Nadiia – $284,500 USD on TAROM RO261
• Dmytro Gavryliuk – $255,000 USD on RO261
• Natalia & Pavlo Shtokailo – $280k–$284k USD on RO261
• Multiple others on Turkish Airlines TK1040 / TK1044 / TK1046 and Pegasus PC362 carrying $290k–$570k+ USD each.
Provenance column? Almost always just “afaceri” (business) or “castiguri” (earnings), absolutely no supporting paperwork visible. Total visible cash in these partial logs easily exceeds $8–10 million USD on just a few days in February 2025.
The customs authorities recorded the transit of these sums in official registers, but allowed the individuals to pass without blocking the operations. Exact flight numbers and dates are public record, anyone can cross-check passenger volumes on OTP→IST routes that day.
Following the documents’ leak in RTV media, the head of the National Office for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering (Bogdan Stan) and his deputy were dismissed. According to the sources of RTV media, this organized crime group laundered more than $2 billion in cash in a year through Romania!
Coincidentally, the biggest amounts of cash being were transited around the time of the presidential elections in Romania.
Keep in mind this was happening a full year before Hungary’s March 2026 investigation, where authorities seized ~$82 million in cash + gold from Ukrainian Oschadbank armored vehicles and opened a money-laundering probe.
And the border logs came out 2 months before my videos with direct testimony from a Romanian cash-in-transit worker who has operated large cash transports throughout Romania, Austria, Ukraine.
How it worked and how it all ties together:
1. Instead of flying the cash out directly from Ukraine (heavily monitored and logistically difficult), licensed or semi-licensed CIT operators (or even bank-affiliated teams) use armored land convoys to transport the cash across the land border into Romania (or Hungary).
2. Romania shares the largest direct border with Ukraine and there are no border checks done. Once across, the cash is now inside the EU, where movement is easier.
3. Cash is split and flown commercially from Bucharest to Istanbul (exactly as in the Romanian documents)
In the Bucharest area, the bulk cash is broken into smaller bundles (typically $250,000–$570,000 per person or small family group).
Multiple Ukrainian citizens (often with the same surnames, families or coordinated groups) board cheap, frequent commercial flights from Bucharest Otopeni Airport (OTP) → Istanbul (IST).
This is why the combination of CIT convoys + dozens of individuals carrying near-identical large cash sums on the same OTP–IST flights looks coordinated rather than random tourist/business activity.
