Prosecutors with the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) have sent former minister Constantin Nita to court under judiciary control on bail over influence peddling.
In their indictment, the prosecutors say in 2013, Nita, back then a parliamentarian in Romania's Parliament and energy minister when the offence was committed, asked a businessman, the denouncer now, for a 5-percent commission fee on a contract concluded by a company owned by him with a town hall.
The prosecutors say that according to the agreement, the amount of 5-percent of the contract value - some 3.4 million lei - had to be paid to Nitu in two ways: partially cash and partially in the form of a fictitious consultancy contract that was to be concluded with a person of trust from the minister's entourage.
They also claim that the amount was not paid out in full, but in two installments - 30,000 euros and 303,118 lei - with the money used mainly to cover various spending by the county branch of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) upon the minister's request.
A lien has been ordered on the immobile assets owned by Nita to the tune of 435,823 lei, the damage incurred by the influence peddling of which he stands accused.
The case was forwarded to the Supreme Court of Justice, with a proposal for the preventive measures and the lien being kept in place.
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