Former PSD mayor Marian Vanghelie, in custody for influence peddling and abuse of office (sources)

The former mayor of Bucharest's Sector 5, Marian Vanghelie, was taken into custody by prosecutors with the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), on Thursday night, in a case where he is accused of forming a criminal group, of influence peddling and abuse of office, with damages of over 256 million RON, judiciary sources specified for AGERPRES.

DNA informed on Thursday in a press release sent to AGERPRES that it is investigating 22 suspects, including civil servants, directors of institutions subordinated to the mayoralty and Local Council of Sector 5 for crimes of corruption and assimilated to corruption regarding illegal, over-evaluated acquisitions made by SC Economat Sector 5 (a company whose only associate is the local council).

DNA prosecutors note in the ordinance that at the end of 2018, Marian Vanghelie, who at the time was a councilor with the Sector 5 Local Council, Marian Leonard Petre - who was the CEO of SC Economat sector 5, as well as a businessman have formed an organized criminal group, to which other people (company administrators) have subsequently added, and whose purpose was obtaining goods by the companies controlled by Vanghelie and the people who supported the group, by damaging the budget of SC Economat Sector 5 (where the majority shareholder is the Local Council of Sector 5).