IMPARȚIALITATE·INTEGRITATE·EFICIENȚĂ
October, 15th, 2014
No. 1454/VIII/3
To complete the press releases no. 1436/VIII/3 şi no. 1450/VIII/3 from the 15th of October 2014, regarding suspicions of perpetration of corruption facts related to the assignment of large surfaces of forestry land, the Information and Public Relations Office is authorized to provide the following data:
The prosecutors within the National Anticorruption Directorate – the Territorial Service Brașov have ordered the pretrial detention for 24 hours (starting from October 16th 2014), against the defendants:
IACOB SORIN ION, defendant, for the offence of constituting an organized criminal group, three offences of buying of influence and traffic of influence,
BENGESCU DAN COSTIN, defendant, for the offences of traffic of influence, bribery and constituting an organized criminal group
KADAS IOSIF, defendant, for the offences of constituting an organized criminal group and three offences of buying of influence,
POENARU JĂNICĂ, defendant for offences of joining an organized criminal group and traffic of influence.
Criminal investigation acts are also performed with regards to the following:
STURDZA PALTIN-GHEORGHE, suspect, person pretending to have the quality of heir of „Ghica Estate”, for offences of instigation to abuse of office with aggravated consequences, constituting an organized criminal group, three offences of buying of influence,
ORDOG LORAND ANDRAS, defendant, judge within Covasna Tribunal, for the offence of abuse of office with aggravated consequences,
UȚA GABRIEL, defendant, judge within Covasna Tribunal, for the offence of abuse of office with aggravated consequences,
OLARI AUREL, suspect, for joining an organized criminal group and traffic of influence offences
VARGA IOAN-GHEORGHE, suspect, for offences of constituting an organized criminal group and traffic of influence,
POTEACĂ ANDREI, suspect, for offences of joining an organized criminal group and traffic of influence,
CIOCOIU ALINA – CARMEN, suspect, for the offence of complicity to buying influence,
The prosecutor’s pretrial arrest for 24 hours ordinance indicates that in this case there are data and aspects leading to reasonable suspicion describing the following state of facts:
On the 17th of April 2012, following a previous agreement, upon the request of the defendant Adam Ioan, with the support of the suspect Sturdza Paltin-Gheorghe, a complete panel of judges from the Covasna Tribunal previously including the defendants Ordog Lorand Andras and Uță Gabriel, ruled the admission of an appeal in the matter of forestry fund and restoration of property rights for a large area of forest and agricultural land, located in Bacau county, in favor of a person and against National Forest ROMSILVA.
The value of the prejudice against RNP ROMSILVA is of 303,888,615 Euro (the counter value of 43,227 ha forestry land).
The defendants and suspects were informed about their legal status according to the provisions of art. 309 and respectively art. 307 of the Penal Procedure Code.
On the 16th of October 2014, the defendants IACOB SORIN ION, BENGESCU DAN COSTIN, KADAS IOSIF, POENARU JĂNICĂ, ORDOG LORAND ANDRAS and UȚĂ GABRIEL are presented to the High Court of Cassation and Justice with the proposal of pretrial arrest for 30 days.
Taking into account their status of magistrates for the defendants ORDOG LORAND ANDRAS and UȚĂ GABRIEL, the Section for judges of the Magistrates Superior Council agreed, on the 15th of October 2014, with the pretrial arrest and house arrest measure against the 2 defendants.
It should be mentioned that the opening of the criminal investigation represents a stage of the criminal proceedings regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code, an activity which cannot, under any circumstances, infringe the principle of presumption of innocence.
THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE