Archbishop of Tomis, Teodosie Petrescu, investigated by DNA in a new file

Archbishop of Tomis, Teodosie Petrescu, is investigated by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) in a new file, being charged with abuse of office, false testimony and with misleading the judiciary. In the same file, other two employees of the Tomis Archbishopric are also investigated.

The prosecutors claim that, in the context of being prosecuted since February 3, 2017, for damages against Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) amounting to RON 1,392,964, “in the attempt to create a favourable situation for his criminal suit” on October 10, 2017 the Archbishop of Tomis allegedly filed a denouncement by which he accuses three natural persons (two of them employees of the Tomis Archbishopric) and two legal persons, regarding the defrauding of European funds in 2016.

Archbishop Teodosie is prosecuted, along with other persons, for using in bad faith documents or false statements, inaccurate or incomplete, if the deed resulted in unlawfully benefitting from European funds, in continued form. Currently, Teodosie’s file is with the Constanta Court of Appeals.

Teodosie Petrescu, Archbishop of Tomis, was placed on October 16, 2016 under judicial control by the 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 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 actually such crops. In this way, they obtained a total of RON 1,356,973 (approx. EUR 300,000) from the EU budget.