Archbishop Theodosius has been indicted on Friday, under judicial control, by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Constanta prosecutors. The prelate is accused of using false statements to obtain agricultural subsidies from APIA. The damage in this case was nearly RON 1.4 million.
DNA Constanta prosecutors have ordered “the prosecution, under judicial supervision, of the defendant Petrescu Teodosie, Archbishop of Tomis, on the offense of use or the maliciously presentation of documents or false statements, inaccurate or incomplete, if the act results in obtaining undue European funding, in repeated form”.
In the same file were also indicted Beca Stere, Bogdan Petrisor Malaxa, Gheorghe Nadoleanu, Ciprian Ioan Cojocaru, mandatory for the Tomis Archbishop, and Stefan Aurelian.
In early November last year, Archbishop Teodosie sparked a wave of controversy after he went to the police along with 30 priests as bodyguards.
The ‘black guard’ of priests was necessary, according to the Archdiocese, after the Archbishop had been ‘abused verbally and physically’. After a few days, Archbishop Teodosie went again to the police with the priests accompanying him.
Teodosie Petrescu, Archbishop of Tomis, was placed on October 16, 2016 under judicial control by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) for 60 days.
Teodosie was charged with bribe taking and use in bad faith of documents or false statements, inaccurate or incomplete, in order to unlawfully get European funds.
Archbishop Teodosie is accused that, along with others, used fake documents to the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (A.P.I.A.) in order to receive European funds.
The suspects said they use certain agricultural areas for different crops of vines, but starting in 2010, on those agricultural areas there were not really such crops. In this way, they obtained a total of RON 1,356,973 (approx. EUR 300,000) from the EU budget.
Archbishop Teodosie is accused that in the spring of 2016 he received EUR 500 as bribe to help a person receive legal remuneration in a parish in its subordination.