Former Constitutional Court judge was placed under remand on Tuesday in the file in which he is charged with supporting illegal exports in Russia and with helping his godson to get several contracts for his company in exchange for a car and dresses for his wife. Grebla was detained for these charges and moreover for a new accusation saying that he would have tried to sell, by interagents, 50 goats that did not belong to him. This new charge came following a denunciation.
According to Romania TV, few minutes after Grebla arrived in the Bucharest arrest center, he got sick. He received medical aid on the spot but he was taken to the hospital later on for further tests.
The former CC judge was taken out handcuffed from the DNA HQs and placed under arrest. He did not admit his guilt in this case, saying the remand action was excessive.
Grebla stated that the truth would come out, as he didn’t plunder the public money. He also rejected some charges as being “phantasmagoric interpretations”.“There is no new evidence in the file, on the contrary, the evidence are confirming my point of view,” Grebla argued.
Ex-Constitutional Judge Toni Grebla is prosecuted for influence peddling, for the establishment of a criminal organization and conducting financial transactions using trade acts incompatible with the purpose of obtaining money or property advantages. Accusations have been made aware on January 22.
In the same file there are investigated also the businessman Ion Bîrcin?, the godson of Toni Grebla and manager of several companies, PSD Deputy Iulian Iancu, a member of the social-democrat National Council, Horia H?h?ianu, director of Transelectrica, Moldovan businessman Victor Dolghi and reserve General Constantin Bartolomeu S?voiu, Grand Master of the Romanian National Grand Lodge -1880.
Grebla is suspected to have received electoral campaign materials during 2012, a BMW car and two dresses for his wife from his godson, businessman Ion Bircina, to intervene in support of the latter’s companies.
Toni Grebl? submitted his resignation early February in the Constitutional Court plenum, citing pressure on the institution in connection with the performance of his duties after the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) began prosecution for corruption against him.