Deputy Ioan Oltean, indicted together with Crinuţa Dumitrean in the ANRP retrocession file

Deputy Ioan Oltean (photo 1) has been indicted by corruption prosecutors along with Crinuţa Dumitrean (photo 2), former president of the National Authority for Property Restitution (ANRP), in a file on the overvalued compensation for a land in Pitesti, with damages amounting to nearly RON 100 million (approx. EUR 22.2 million).

According to a National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) press release on Friday, Ioan Oltean is charged with complicity to abuse of office with serious consequences if the official has obtained for himself or for another an undue advantage, Crinuţa Dumitrean is charged with abuse of office with serious consequences.

In the same file eight defendants have been indicted, most of them at the material time members of the ANRP Central Committee for setting Compensations.

Sergiu Diacomatu, at the material time Vice Chairman of the Central Committee and Catalin Teodorescu, Remus Virgil Baciu, Rodica Constantinovici, Lăcrămioara Alexandru and Marko Attila Gabor, members of the commission, have been indicted for abuse of office with very serious consequences, if the official has obtained for himself or for another an undue advantage.

For complicity to committing the same crimes have been indicted businessman Mihai Rotaru, the direct beneficiary of the compensation, and assessor Sergiu Negurici.

The case has been sent to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court), with the proposal to maintain the preventive measures in the said file.

The judges of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) ruled on February 12 to withdraw the measure judicial control for deputy Ioan Oltean, investigated by the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) in an ANRP compensation file for influence peddling and complicity to abuse of office if the official has obtained for himself or for another a undue advantage.

The court upheld a complaint filed by Ioan Oltean against a DNA order dated February 2, 2016, by which the judicial control had been extended.

Prosecutors argue their request by saying that Ioan Olteanu was “like a boss” to the former ANRP head Crinuța Dumitrean, and also that it was notorious that businessman Mihai Rotaru used to benefit of generous and prompt compensations due to this relationship, while other thousands of retrocession files were pending.

Liberal deputy, Ioan Olteanu, was taken by the anti-corruption prosecutors from the airport in December last year and brought to DNA for hearings. He is charged with influence peddling and complicity to abuse of office. Deputy Ioan Oltean allegedly received as bribe EUR 600,000 inside a parish, the DNA prosecutors say.