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Dragos Adrian Iorga, executive manager with the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, was detained, on Friday, by anti-corruption prosecutors in a case in which he is accused of taking bribes from subordinates, a press release from the DNA sent to AGERPRES, reads.
The anti-graft prosecutors with the DNA Constanta Territorial Service ordered the initiation of criminal action and the 24-hour detention starting on Friday, of Dragos Adrian Iorga, for taking bribes, in continuous form and using in any way, directly or indirectly, information that is not intended for advertising or allowing unauthorized persons access to this information, in continuous form.
In exchange for these "services", the investigators say that Iorga allegedly demanded from the two persons (witnesses in the case) 1,500 RON each month, from the date of receipt of the first salary until November 30, 2023 (the date of completion of the project), aspects with that the two people would have agreed.
"In both cases, the defendant would have made his claims known by presenting each of the two people with an A4 sheet on which the following would have been printed: '5,500 RON net salary, 4,000 RON in your account, 1,500 RON in another account, contract duration November 30, 2023," the prosecutors say.
According to the previously mentioned "agreement", starting from April 2021 (the month of the first salary), Dragos Adrian Iorga would have received, approximately, from one of the witnesses the total sum of 45,000 RON (the last payment would have been made in October 2023) and from the other, 38,200 RON (the last payment would have been made in May 2023, when the witness decided not to do this anymore). The sums of money that would have been "due" to Iorga would have been remitted to him most of the time by bank transfer, but there were situations in which the respective persons would have left their salary cards, which, after he had withdrawn the amount of money initially established, he would have returned it the next day to the beneficiary, the investigators mention.
DNA informs that, during Friday, as a result of obtaining legal authorizations from the competent court, searches were carried out at Iorga's home and office, in Bucharest, being seized by the prosecutors, among others, the following: 174,600 RON, 10,000 USD and 11,000 euros, gold bars with a total weight of 65.2 grams, as well as the bank cards related to the accounts opened by the two women witnesses, where the sums of money were allegedly transferred as bribes.
