Editing Vladut Ionuț (section)

== Enforcement work ==
Vladut moved into direct enforcement during 2000. On 8 September, he was sent to recover a Bucharest Butchers vehicle that a mechanic had concealed over an unpaid debt. He confronted the mechanic alone and killed him with a workshop hammer when he refused to reveal the vehicle's location. This was the first killing later attributed specifically to Vladut.

The organization continued to send him after debtors and members suspected of theft. He often worked alone, entering homes or workshops without a supporting crew. Investigators later attributed other hammer killings to him. Surviving records also described assaults in which he bit his victims and mutilated their bodies after death.

By his early twenties, Vladut was drinking heavily before collection work and enforcement assignments. He remained capable of following a target and recovering organization property, but became more violent when he believed someone was hiding money or information. Captives and lower-ranking members were frequent targets of these assaults.