On Thursday, police raided the home of Florin Salam in connection with a €18,000 fraud case, according to some judicial sources. The singer Manele is accused of taking money in advance from several people for singing, but no longer appeared at the events.

Florin Salam’s concertPhoto: Agerpres

The Metropolitan Police announced in a press release that Section 2 officers are carrying out three searches in Bucharest on Thursday in a criminal investigation into three fraud crimes, losses of approximately 18,000 euros.

The police note that a complaint was registered by three people who reported that “they paid certain sums to a person for providing certain musical services, but he did not fulfill the agreement and did not return the received money.” The notices were filed on April 12, 2023, January 16, 2024, and February 21, 2024.

According to some judicial sources, it is about Florin Salam.

Charges brought by the Metropolitan Police:

  • “During the day of July 21, 2020, while in the premises of a restaurant in sector 1, he paid a man, by verbal agreement with a person, 3,000 euros as an advance payment for the provision of a musical program, in the summer of 2021, at a party. Later, the suspect did not keep his promise and did not return the seized amount to the victim.
  • On January 28, 2023, another person allegedly went to the man’s home and verbally agreed to pay him €10,000 as an advance for providing music services on August 13, 2023. But that evening, the man did not appear and did not return the money to the victim.
  • On May 14, 2023, one of the victims would go to the suspect’s house and, according to a verbal agreement, would pay him 25,500 lei as an advance for the provision of music services on September 29, 2023, but the man did not pay and would not return the money received in the future.
  • It was established that the suspect committed these actions in complicity with two other men.”

According to the police, the accused will be brought to court, and the investigation in this case is coordinated by the prosecutor’s office of the 1st district court.