The National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) opened a new case in the illegal retrocessions made by the National Authority for Property Restitution (ANRP), this time regarding the overestimation of three plots of land in Bistrita county. The prosecutors investigate abuse of office charges in case where the prejudice is estimated to EUR 20 M. One of the beneficiaries of the illegal restitutions would have been businessman Mihai Rotaru. Rotaru was heard at the DNA on Thursday.
Judicial sources told local media that prosecutors investigate the way the evaluation has been made on three plots of land in Bistrita-Nasaud. The evaluation’s beneficiaries in this case would be businessman Mihai Rotaru and his sister, Diana, Le Bomin.
DNA informed in a press release later on that 12 people are prosecuted in this file: Gianina Ancuța Opre, as president and Horia Georgescu, Cristian Morărescu, Rodica Constantinovici, Remus Virgil Baciu, Lăcrămioara Alexandru and Nicolae Pricop, as members of ANRP, are prosecuted for abuse of office. Other five are prosecuted for complicity to abuse of office: assessors Mihai Papasteri, Emil Nuțiu and Gheorghe Vîță, and Mihai Rotaru and his sister, Diana Le Bomin, cessionary of litigant rights and beneficiaries of the overrated assessment.
The deeds would have been committed in 2009.
Businessman Mihai Rotaru is also investigated in another anti-corruption case, being charged with giving EUR 600,000 bribe to the former Democrat Liberal deputy Ioan Olteanu to intercede to ANRP in his favour. Rotaru would have obtained a compensation of almost RON 109 M from ANRP for a plot of land that was overrated by over RON 87 M.