Police, Prosecutor General deny that runaway businessman Sebastian Ghita would be in Serbia. Second arrest warrant issued

Former MP, businessman Sebastian Ghita has been located in Serbia, sources close to the investigation told Hotnews.ro. According to these sources, Ghita would have been recently visited in Serbia by two of his close collaborators in Romania, with whom he would have discussed new strategies of compromising the anti-corruption chief prosecutor. Yet, the Police and the Prosecutor General denied the information.

One person who would have visited the runaway businessman is political adviser Dan Adronic, owner of EVZ newspaper. Yet, Andronic denied: “I haven’t met Ghita since he left. I don’t think is in Serbia, it’s false information. It’s nonsense,” Andronic told Hotnews. He refused to answer the journalists’ repeated questions if he has been in Serbia lately. “The answer is that I have been in many places, does that make any difference?”.

The sources quoted by Hotnews also revealed that at least two officers of the Romanian Police Inspectorate would have headed to Serbia two weeks ago to collaborate with the Serbian authorities so that Sebastian Ghita should not leave the country. There has been an extradition agreement between Romania and Serbia in force since 1961.

However, the Police did not confirm the information for now. “We don’t confirm the information on defendant Sebastian Ghita. Neither the case prosecutor, nor us” reads a statement by the Romanian Police, quoted by Pro TV.

In his turn, prosecutor general Augustin Lazar also denied Ghita would be in Serbia, saying the information is false. “It’s a false information, we don’t consider it,” said Lazar.

The sources quoted by Hotnews also hinted that Serbia has been chosen as hideaway destination for Ghita as the Serbian prmeier Aleksandar Vucic is a very good friend of former PM Victor Ponta, also close friend of Sebastian Ghita.

Ex-PM Ponta yet denied he would know where Ghita is and that he would do such thing, meaning to go to prime ministers and asked them to hide Ghita. “Do you think I would go to any premier in any country and tell him: hide this one?,” Ponta ironically commented. Ponta also said that he hadn’t spoken to Ghita since December, reminding they were banned to talk to each other following the interdiction ordered by the prosecutors in one of Ghita’s files. Asked if Ghita is fine, Victor Ponta said: “I have no idea, I hope is well.”

Sebastian Ghita has gone missing since December last year, with an international arrest warrant released on his name. He is believed to have left Romania. The former IT tycoon is facing tens of corruption charges in several criminal cases. A witness in one of his files told the anti-corruption prosecutors that Ghita knew since last year that representatives of Romsys and Siveco IT companies had filed denunciations against him and was aware that prosecutor would ask for his arrest after losing his parliamentary immunity.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, the Prahova Tribunal ruled for another preventive arrest warrant in absentia against Ghita. The ruling is not final yet and can be challenged in court in the upcoming 48 hours. The new arrest request refers to the fifth file eyed by the National Anti-corruption Directorate against Ghita, where he is charged of interceding against payment for the assigment of some IT contracts with the state. Among the persons he would have intercede with is also former PM Victor Ponta.

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