The prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) announced, on Monday, that they extended the criminal investigation against two former military staff and a lawyer from the Bucharest Bar Association, for influence peddling crimes.
According to a press release from the DNA, sent to AGERPRES, the prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Directorate - Anti-corruption Section ordered the extension of the criminal prosecution against four people - two former military staff, currently associated in some companies, a lawyer from the Bucharest Bar and a person without special status, under the aspect of committing crimes of influence peddling (against three people) and constituting an organized criminal group.
The DNA does not mention the names of the defendants, but, according to judicial sources, it is about generals Florian Coldea and Dumitru Dumbrava, lawyer Doru Traila, and the fourth person indicted is Dan Tocaci, a close relative of the three.
The anti-corruption prosecutors note in the ordinances that, during 2023, the two businessmen and the lawyer from the Bucharest Bar would have demanded from a local elected official (witness in the case) the sum of 600,000 euros plus VAT, in exchange for which they would have left to believe that they have influence on some magistrates in some courts and that they could cause them to pronounce favorable decisions for the witness in a criminal case in which he was being judged.
The same sources specified for AGERPRES that the witness referred to would be the mayor of the city of Rovinari, Robert Filip.
"In the context mentioned, the witness, through a relative, would allegedly remitted to the three defendants a partial payment from the claimed benefit, namely the amount of approximately 234,000 euros. At the same time, the defendants allegedly used a law firm to transfer the sums of money from the potential beneficiaries of the alleged influence peddling to the consulting companies they control, creating the appearance of legality of this financial circuit, by concluding legal assistance contracts, respectively consulting contracts", the investigators mention.
In the case, criminal proceedings are being carried out against other legal entities, regarding the crime of money laundering, informs the DNA.
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