IMPARȚIALITATE·INTEGRITATE·EFICIENȚĂ
June, 18th, 2019
No. 500/VIII/3
Press release
At the request of the mass media representatives, the Information and Public Relations Office is authorized to communicate the following:
The prosecutors within the National Anticorruption Directorate – the Section for combatting offences assimilated to corruption offences ordered the start of the criminal action against the defendants:
MARIAN MARIUS-DORIN, chief of the chancellery of the prime minister, at the time the acts were committed and BERTEANU PETRU, administrator of several commercial companies, at the time the acts were committed charged with complicity to bribe taking.
The prosecutors’ orders state that, in this case, there are data and evidence outlining the following state of facts:
In 2007, the defendants Berteanu Petru and Marian Marius-Dorin helped a senior official to request and, in 2008, to receive, in several installments material benefits from representatives of a Austrian IT company, in exchange to exert their office duties in connection with the adoption of four government decisions (approving the conclusion of several additional documents to a commercial contract implemented by the company, having as object the lease, by the Romanian state, of some IT licenses).
Based on this agreement, the company's representatives paid a commission of 10% of the value of the amounts collected from the Romanian state, through fictitious contracts concluded with several offshore companies.
Of those benefits, USD 800,000 was used to pay off a debt that the dignitary had to a company, representing the value of political consulting services.
The defendants Marian Marius-Dorin and Berteanu Petru have been informed about their status in the criminal proceedings and the charges brought against them in accordance with art. 309 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
As regards the alleged perpetrator, there is a legal impediment to the initiation of criminal proceedings.
With regard to the two defendants, we specify that the initiation of the criminal action represents a stage of the criminal proceedings regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code, carried out in order to create the procedural framework for gathering of evidence, an activity which cannot, under any circumstances, violate the principle of presumption of innocence.
THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE