IMPARȚIALITATE·INTEGRITATE·EFICIENȚĂ
January, 22nd, 2015
No. 118/VIII/3
PRESS RELEASE
The Prosecutors within the National Anticorruption Directorate - the Section for Combating the Offences related to those of Corruption have ordered the start of the criminal action against:
GREBLĂ TONI, a Senator within the Romanian Parliament (up to the 18th of December 2013, when he started his mandate as a judge within the Constitutional Court) and later a judge within the Constitutional Court, charged for the offences of:
- traffic of influence, through repeated acts;
- 2 offences of performing financial operations as trade acts that are not compatible with his position in order to receive money, goods or other undue benefits for himself or other;
- forming an organized criminal group (by forming it and in order to prepare the offence of using the forged transport and trade custom documents received from the custom authority).
The criminal action ordinance drawn up by the prosecutors indicated that there are data and clues leading to the reasonable suspicion according to which:
During 2010 – 2015, the suspect GREBLĂ TONI, acting as a Senator within the Romanian Parliament (up to the 18th of December 2013, when he started his mandate as a judge within the Constitutional Court) and later a judge within the Constitutional Court, claimed and received from the administrator of several commercial companies, as undue benefits, the following items:
- during 2010 – 2015, the right to use free of charge and the payment of maintenance and insurance costs for a BMW Series 5 car, (registered in different stages for several companies controlled by the businessman), in the equivalent of 56,070 euro;
- during 2010 – 2015, the free use of a phone line, registered on one of the companies controlled by the businessman;
- on the 2nd of November 2011, the amount of 1,200 ron (the equivalent of costs of outfits);
- In October 2012, election materials related to the election campaign related to the parliamentarian elections, for posting 20,000 posters;
The undue benefits were received in exchange for the promise to intercede and determine different public servants to perform and rush several acts that were part of their job duties, in the favor of the companies controlled by the businessman, with interests in different fields of activity (energy, transport, scrap iron etc).
During 2010 – 2015, the suspect GREBLĂ TONI, acting as a Senator within the Romanian Parliament (up to the 18th of December 2013, when he started his mandate as a judge within the Constitutional Court) and later a judge within the Constitutional Court, practiced activities that were specific to his status as deputy (receiving equities), administrator (representing the company) and CEO (trade activities), disguised by means of middlemen, thus breaking the incompatibility regulations (regarding the incompatibilities of the judge within the Constitutional Court and those of the Senator).
It was concluded that the suspect GREBLĂ TONI performed sustained trade activities, directly or with the help of middlemen, and acted as a partner, respectively administrator / CEO, with regards to an agricultural farm located in Gorj county and with regards to a commercial company, operating in the electricity production field.
Together with other people, the suspect Greblă Toni formed an organized criminal group in order to initiate trade relations (export of agricultural-food products) in between Romania – the Russian Federation, by interposing Turkey, in order to evade Russia’s decision to appoint a one-sided embargo upon the import of agricultural-food products coming from the European Union.
In order to achieve this, the members of the group met several times, both in Romania and abroad, by acting coordinately in order to fulfil the purpose they joined forces for. During 2014 – 2015, they started to organize themselves in order to perpetrate the offence of using, by the custom authority, of custom forged transport and trade custom documents, according to the provisions of art. 273 of the Law no. 86/2006 – Custom Code.
The suspect Greblă Toni was informed about his status and the charges brought against him, according to the provisions of article 307 of the Penal Procedure Code.
In this case, the prosecutors benefit of the specialized support of the Romanian Intelligence Service and of the Special Brigade of Intervention of the Gendarmerie.
It should be mentioned that the start of the criminal investigation represents a stage of the criminal file regulated by the Penal Procedure Code, a situation which cannot, under any circumstances, infringe the principle of presumption of innocence.
THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE