IMPARȚIALITATE·INTEGRITATE·EFICIENȚĂ
November, 21th, 2017
No. 1110/VIII/3
Press Release
With regard to the case file from the press release no. 1056 issued on November 13th 2017, concerning the suspicion of setting up an organized crime group whose purpose was to illegally obtain sums of money as a result of contracts financed with public money, the Office for Information and Public Relations is authorized to state as follows:
According to article 249 of the Criminal Procedure Code and article 20 of the Law no. 78/2000, the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate – the Section for Combating the Offences Assimilated to Those of Corruption – have ordered ensuring measures on the movable and immovable assets owned by the following suspects:
DRAGNEA NICOLAE-LIVIU, President of the County Council Teleorman – at the time the offences were committed – the prosecutors issued ensuring seizing measures and ensuring freezing orders up to the equivalent of 127,547,366.34 lei on all his movable and immovable assets and on the shares owned by him within private legal entities, on the sums of money from his bank accounts, as well as on the amounts of money owed to him under any title, by third parties, including the sums owed as rent money,
NEDA FLOREA, representative of SC Tel Drum SA – the prosecutors issued ensuring seizing measures and ensuring freezing orders up to the equivalent of 31,343,799.19 lei on all his movable and immovable assets, on the sums of money from his bank accounts, on the amounts of money owed to him under any title, by third parties, including the sums owed as dividends,
BĂȚĂUȘ MUGUR, civil servant within the County Council Teleorman – at the time the offences were committed – the prosecutors issued ensuring seizing measures up to the equivalent of 127,547,366.34 lei on all his movable and immovable assets, on the shares owned by him within private legal entities, on the sums of money from his bank accounts, on the amounts of money owed to him by third parties,
PIPEREA VICTOR, civil servant within the County Council Teleorman, – at the time the offences were committed – the prosecutors issued ensuring seizing measures and ensuring freezing orders up to the equivalent of 63,999,908.88 lei, on all his movable and immovable assets, on the shares owned by him, on the sums of money from his bank accounts, on the amounts of money owed to him under any title, by third parties,
PREDESCU MARIN, civil servant within the County Council Teleorman, – at the time the offences were committed – the prosecutors issued ensuring seizing measures and ensuring freezing orders up to the equivalent of 32,203,658.27 lei, on all his movable and immovable assets, on the shares owned by him, on the sums of money from his bank accounts, on the amounts of money owed to him under any title, by third parties.
These ensuring measures were ordered by the prosecutors with a view to recovering the damages and after considering the charges brought against the above mentioned suspects, depending on their involvement in the offences for which they are suspects.
The damage that has been estimated so far in this case, was caused as a result of the offences of: using or presenting in bad faith false, inaccurate or incomplete documents or statements if the offence results in the unfair obtaining of European funds (2 offences) and abuse of office resulted in obtaining undue benefits (2 offences). The damage in question has amounted so far to 127,547,366.34 lei, and it is formed of:
- the sum of 32,203,658.27 lei (the equivalent of € 6,930,138), representing the damage calculated in the case of the offence of using or presenting in bad faith false, inaccurate or incomplete documents or statements if the offence results in the unfair obtaining of European funds, an offence committed in connection with the rehabilitation project of the County Road 506,
- the sum of 63,999,908.88 lei (the equivalent of € 13,772,603), representing the damage calculated in the case of the offence of using or presenting in bad faith false, inaccurate or incomplete documents or statements if the offence results in the unfair obtaining of European funds, an offence committed in connection with the rehabilitation project of the County Road 701,
- the sum of 5,742,872.19 lei, representing the damage calculated in the case of the offence of abuse of office, an offence committed in connection with awarding the construction contract for the County Road 506,
- the sum of 25,600,927 lei, representing the damage calculated in the case of the offence of abuse of office, an offence committed in connection with awarding the construction contract for the County Road 701.
Up to this moment, neither the Management Authority (the Ministry of Regional Development and European Funds) lodged a civil application in the criminal proceedings regarding the sums of money illegally obtained from European funds (over € 20 million), neither the County Council Teleorman lodged a civil application in the criminal proceedings regarding the damage caused as a result of the offence of abuse of office (over 31 million lei).
On November 21st 2017, the suspects were informed about the content of the prosecutor’s ordinance regarding the ensuring measures, according to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code.
It should be mentioned that the carrying out of the criminal investigation represents a stage of the criminal proceedings regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code, aiming at creating the procedural framework for collecting evidence, an activity which cannot, under any circumstances violate the principle of presumption of innocence.
THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE