IMPARȚIALITATE·INTEGRITATE·EFICIENȚĂ
May, 6th, 2009
No. 105/VIII/3
Press release
The prosecutors within the National Anticorruption Directorate – the Piteşti Territorial Service carry out criminal investigations against the defendant MUNTEANU DANIEL, judicial police officer with the rank of chief commissioner - and the position of deputy chief inspector of Vâlcea County Police Inspectorate, who was charged with the offences of:
- bribe taking (three offences, of which one repeatedly committed);
- abuse of office against the public interests in order to obtain for himself or for another person a patrimonial or non-patrimonial advantage, repeatedly committed;
- instigation to the offence of intellectual false and use of false repeatedly committed in direct connection with the offence of abuse of office against the public interests in order to obtain for himself or for another person a patrimonial or non-patrimonial advantage, repeatedly committed;
- instigation to the offence of bribe giving;
- instigation to the offence of abuse of office against the public interests in order to obtain for himself or for another person a patrimonial or non-patrimonial advantage repeatedly committed;
- instigation to the offence of "the use, in any way, directly or indirectly, of information not meant for publicity or allowing the access of several unauthorised persons to this information";
- instigation to the offence of forgery of writings under private signature.
In the ordinance for the initiation of the criminal action, the prosecutors stated that during 2006 – 2008, the defendant Munteanu Daniel claimed and received from two businessmen from Vâlcea County money and undue advantages amounting to approximately 73,914 lei, in order to, by misusing his position within Vâlcea County Police Inspectorate, protect their illegal activity.
Moreover, during September 2008, the defendant requested another judicial police officer with leading position within I.P.J. Argeş to take the necessary steps in order to find out whether the authorised institutions carry out activities which could regard his informative surveillance.
During 2008, the defendant requested several commissioners of the Financial Guard to favour, by not complying with their duty attributions, more economic agents from Vâlcea.
The prosecutors stated also that, during 2008, the defendant Munteanu Daniel requested several traffic police agents within I.P.J. Vâlcea to favour several drivers who infringed the legislation for the regulation of public roads traffic and made one of the drivers to communicate false data regarding the identity of the driver in order not to receive a misdemeanour sanction.
The defendant was informed about the accusation brought against him in accordance with the provisions of art. 6 paragraph 3 from the Criminal Procedure Code, and on May 5th, 2009, the anticorruption prosecutors ordered the hold of the defendant under temporary custody for a period of 24 hours. On May 6th, 2009, the Piteşti Court of Appeal ordered the preventive arrest of the defendant Munteanu Daniel for a period of 29 days.
For the investigation of this case, the prosecutors collaborated with officers within the Ministry of Administration and Interior (M.A.I.) – the Anticorruption General Direction and the General Direction for Information and Internal Protection.
It should be noted that the initiation of the criminal action represents a stage of the criminal proceedings, regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code, considered necessary with a view to proposing several preventive measures, an activity which cannot, under any circumstances, infringe the principle of presumption of innocence.
THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE