Romanian Directors Running UK Fake Locksmith Shell Companies — Companies House Evidence

Important framing

This article documents a pattern found in public Companies House records. It does not imply that Romanian nationality is in any way connected to fraud. The overwhelming majority of Romanian nationals in the UK are law-abiding residents and citizens. This article documents specific named individuals whose company formations follow a documented pattern consistent with the fake locksmith shell company model — based entirely on public corporate records, not on nationality alone.

Why company director nationality matters in this context

Director nationality is a public field on Companies House records. It is declared by the director at the time of appointment. locksmithscams.co.uk has documented over 180 rogue locksmith companies across multiple sessions of investigation. In cross-referencing company director records a pattern emerges: a disproportionate number of the shell companies matching the rogue operator profile — virtual office addresses, misclassified SIC codes, multiple companies per director, rapid incorporation followed by dissolution — have Romanian nationals as directors.

This pattern is consistent with intelligence from the United States where the Dependable Lock prosecution in Clearwater, Florida documented Israeli nationals coordinating Romanian operatives in an identical fake locksmith call centre model. The UK operation appears to follow the same structure — with Romanian nationals providing the UK corporate identity layer while overseas coordination continues.

The six directors documented below are named because their details are in the public record at Companies House. Every claim is sourced to a specific public filing.

The six documented directors

Tudor Gabriel Cerneanu

Nationality: Romanian — DOB: September 1986 — ✓ ECCTA verified

ACTIVE

Registered address: Unit 3 Watling Gate, 297-303 Edgware Road, London NW9 6NB

AAASERV LTDActive — Co. No. 17110257 — 23 March 2026

LOCKSMITH LONDON LTDActive — Co. No. 15755174 — 26 March 2026

LOCK SERV LIMITEDActive — Co. No. 14063939 — 8 April 2026

UK LOCKS LIMITEDActive — Co. No. 17202500 — 26 May 2026

DELL LOCKS LIMITEDActive — Co. No. 17406475 — 18 August 2026

TERRA SECURITY LIMITEDActive — Co. No. 17408307 — 19 August 2026

GO LOCKS LIMITEDActive — Co. No. 17408767 — 19 August 2026

SUPER MILLES LIMITEDDissolved — Co. No. dissolved — prior

Seven active companies plus one dissolved. Three incorporated in two days in August 2026. Has passed ECCTA 2023 identity verification — verified identity, creating companies at industrial scale. Phone 03300582995 confirmed on AAASERV invoices. Lock Serv Limited impersonates genuine Lock Serv Locksmiths — Action Fraud ref RF26050263929C.

Florin Ghiurca Muresan

Nationality: Romanian — DOB: February 1982 — ⚠ Pre-ECCTA or unverified

ACTIVE

Registered address: PO Box W5 3BT, 37 The Ridings, London — PO Box address

LONDON LOCKSMITH 24H LTDActive — Co. No. 10882295 — 25 July 2017

ONLINE SERVICES 24/7 LIMITEDActive — Co. No. connected — 2017

Connected to lock-smith.net and Locksmith 24/7 with 515 Trustpilot complaints — highest volume in database. Also connected to All Services 4 U trading name. PO Box address in Ealing W5.

Bogdan-Florin Stoica

Nationality: Romanian — DOB: Not published — ⚠ Pre-ECCTA or unverified

ACTIVE

Registered address: Documented — see profile page

BS SECURITY MAINTENANCE LTDActive — Co. No. 15170909 — 2023

Six confirmed trading names: BS Security Maintenance, LRS Locksmiths, Freedom Lock Bristol, Your Local Locksmith Company, SPL Locksmiths, and one further name. Documented harm: £40 quoted — £726 charged. Elderly victim targeted.

George Cristian Hosu

Nationality: Romanian — DOB: Not published — ⚠ Pre-ECCTA or unverified

ACTIVE

Registered address: 11 Welbeck Street, London W1G 9XZ — serviced office

DEFINITIVE TRADING LTDActive — Co. No. documented — 2025

Most searched company in locksmithscams.co.uk database — 35 clicks in one week. Previously COSAT Ltd — name changed October 2025 simultaneously with director change. Victim overcharged £1,500 — nine-step redress guide built.

Ionut Gabriel Moisi

Nationality: Romanian — DOB: Not published — ⚠ Pre-ECCTA or unverified

DISSOLVED

Registered address: Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX — virtual office

UK TOP NOTCH SERVICES LTDDissolved — Co. No. 14332796 — September 2022

Invoice evidence: £1,602 charged for 45 minutes work — lock drilled unnecessarily. Gmail address with number suffix. Accounts 728 days overdue before dissolution. SIC misclassified as other professional activities. Dissolved — likely before ECCTA identity verification requirement.

Nicusor Ursu

Nationality: Romanian — DOB: May 1986 — ⚠ Pre-ECCTA or unverified

DISSOLVED

Registered address: 35 Weavers Close, Isleworth, TW7 6EH — residential address in target area

TWICKENHAM EMERGENCY LOCKSMITH LTDDissolved — Co. No. 15075566 — 16 August 2023

Registered a company called Twickenham Emergency Locksmith Ltd at a residential address in TW7 — the exact postcode of the genuine locksmith who built this database. Dissolved — almost certainly before ECCTA identity verification requirement. Almost certainly replaced with a new company under a different name.

The pattern — what the records show

Multiple companies per director

Tudor Gabriel Cerneanu incorporated seven active locksmith companies in five months — March to August 2026. Three of them in two consecutive days. This is not a genuine business building a portfolio of operations. It is industrial-scale shell company creation designed to generate multiple trading identities from one individual.

Virtual office and serviced office addresses

Unit 3 Watling Gate, 297-303 Edgware Road NW9 6NB. Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester Street WC1N 3AX. 11 Welbeck Street W1G 9XZ. PO Box W5 3BT. These are not locksmith business premises. They are mail handling addresses used by hundreds of companies with no physical presence. The same addresses appear repeatedly across documented fake locksmith operations.

SIC code misclassification

Companies incorporated as locksmith operations are registered under SIC codes for other professional activities, security systems, construction, and general services — not under locksmith service codes. This misclassification may be deliberate — to avoid industry-specific regulatory scrutiny — or may reflect the company formation agent's default categorisation.

Dissolution before identity verification

Several documented Romanian directors dissolved their companies before or shortly after the ECCTA 2023 mandatory identity verification requirement took effect. Nicusor Ursu dissolved Twickenham Emergency Locksmith Ltd. Ionut Gabriel Moisi's UK Top Notch Services Ltd was dissolved with accounts 728 days overdue. The timing is consistent with deliberate dissolution to avoid identity verification — followed by reincorporation under new names.

Target area residential addresses

Nicusor Ursu registered Twickenham Emergency Locksmith Ltd at a residential address in TW7 6EH — Isleworth — the exact operational area documented by locksmithscams.co.uk. The director lived in the target area while creating a fake listing designed to compete with the genuine local operators in that postcode.

Identity verification passed — companies still proliferating

Tudor Gabriel Cerneanu has passed the ECCTA 2023 identity verification requirement. His seven companies all show verification requirements complete. This demonstrates that the ECCTA verification — which was intended to reduce anonymous shell company creation — does not prevent a verified individual from creating multiple shell companies simultaneously. Verification confirms identity. It does not limit the number of companies a verified individual can create.

The ECCTA loophole — verified identity, unlimited companies

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 introduced mandatory director identity verification. The intent was to reduce anonymous company creation — the nominee director model where an untraceable individual created disposable shell companies. Tudor Gabriel Cerneanu's record demonstrates the limitation of this approach.

He has verified his identity. He is on the public record. His name, date of birth, and nationality are confirmed by Companies House as genuine. And he has used that verified identity to incorporate seven locksmith companies in five months — all at the same serviced office address — all following the same pattern documented throughout this database.

Verification closes the anonymous nominee director route. It does not close the proliferation route. A single verified individual can create an unlimited number of companies. The ECCTA loophole for the rogue locksmith model is not anonymity — it is scale. One verified person. Seven companies. Seven Google Maps listings. Seven phone numbers. Seven trading identities targeting consumers across London.

What would close this loophole

Companies House could implement a limit on the number of active companies a single director can hold in high-risk categories — locksmith, plumber, electrician, roofer — without additional verification. Seven active locksmith companies under one director is not a legitimate business structure. It is a shell company network. A cap of two or three companies per director in these categories — with mandatory additional verification above that threshold — would eliminate the proliferation model without affecting genuine multi-site operators.

This proposal has been submitted to the CMA as part of the locksmithscams.co.uk regulatory evidence base.

A note on the comprehensive dataset

The six directors documented above represent confirmed cases from the locksmithscams.co.uk investigation. A comprehensive query of all active UK limited companies with locksmith-related names, filtered by director nationality, is being compiled using the Companies House API. That dataset — when complete — will provide the definitive count of Romanian nationals directing active locksmith companies in the UK. This article will be updated with those figures when available.

Based on the pattern documented here — one director, multiple companies, same address, same model — the true number is almost certainly significantly higher than the six individuals confirmed so far.

locksmithscams.co.uk — independent public interest resource. Published October 2026. All director details sourced from Companies House public records at find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Company numbers, incorporation dates, nationalities and addresses are public record. Full database → Organised crime article → Regulatory vacuum article →

Romanian directors and UK fake locksmith shell companies — the documented pattern

Why company director nationality matters in this context

The six documented directors

The pattern — what the records show

The ECCTA loophole — verified identity, unlimited companies

A note on the comprehensive dataset