Editing Mircea Ionuț (section)

== Arrest and execution ==
Romanian authorities arrested Mircea at his home in Bucharest on 13 May 2025. Investigators matched payment ledgers recovered from Bucharest Butchers properties to unsolved killings. A Porno Bucharest account recorded his payment to Marku. Records concerning Văleanu identified Mircea as the person assigned to the assassination.

Ioana was questioned as a witness on 13 May. She denied knowing that Mircea kept weapons and murder payments in their home and was released while investigators examined her statement. On 15 May, examiners recovered messages that she and Mircea had deleted between 2 and 4 May. Mircea had instructed her to hide weapons and cash before the arrests began, and Ioana's replies confirmed that she had done so. She was arrested on 16 May.

During the same investigation, recovered records identified Mircea as Gheorghe Drăgan's killer. Nicoleta immediately cooperated and surrendered letters that Mircea had sent her. Deposit slips kept with them showed payments he had made during the affair. Nicoleta's statement established how Mircea approached her after Gheorghe's funeral.

Mircea's tribunal proceeding opened on 20 October 2025. On 24 October, the Bucharest Tribunal recorded 64 murders against him and his knowing financial support of Porno Bucharest. It assigned death.<ref name="tribunal-proceedings"/> Mircea was executed by firing squad at the tribunal detention compound in Băneasa on 28 October 2025, aged 67.

Ioana was required to testify on 21 October about the weapons and money she had concealed. Her own tribunal proceeding recorded that she had hidden evidence and retained money from Mircea's killings. It also found that she had obstructed investigations for decades. On 4 November 2025, the tribunal assigned her life imprisonment.