Money laundering and bribery, the main charges in the Hexi Pharma file

Anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating alleged corruption offenses in the Hexi Pharma file such as abuse of office, bribery and money laundering, judiciary sources told local news agencies on Thursday. The in rem criminal prosecution has been initiated for these charges on May 11.

Several people have been summoned for hearings in this case. Flori Dinu, the general manager of the drug company, who has been under arrest since last Saturday facing 99 abuse charges in continued form, has been heard for 4 hours. She refused to make any statements while leaving the hearings. However, her lawyer said she is suspect of embezzlement charges, but no new preventive measure had been taken against her.

Dan Condrea’s wife, Uliana Ochinciuc also came for hearings, as well as her brother, who was employed at Hexi Pharma.

The former manager of Hexi Pharma, Miron Panaitescu, also friend of late Dan Condrea, was also heard, being brought from Rahova Penitentiary where he is serving a prison sentence for embezzlement and manslaughter.

The prosecutors with the National Anti-corruption Directorate say that during April 29-May 13, after facts related to the diluted disinfectants of Hexi Pharma went public in the media, the company’s owner Dan Condrea transferred money from his personal accounts to the accounts of his wife Uliana Ochinciuc (EUR 229,024) and to her brother’s (EUR 320,000) with the aim of hiding or disimulating the illegal origin of the money.

Therefore, prosecutors initiated criminal prosecution against Hexi Pharma company for tax evasion and money laundering, against GM Flori Dinu for complicity to tax evasion, against Uliana Ochinciuc and his brother Radu Ochinciuc, both under judicial control for money laundering, against Miron Panaitescu for money laundering and against CPS Chemical & Pharmaceutical Solutions LTD and Hatom Limited LTD, both offshore companies registered in Cyprus, for complicity to tax evasion and money laundering.

Flori Dinu, General Manager of Hexi Pharma, has been taken on remand on Friday night, for 24 hours, by the prosecutors with the General Prosecutor’s office in the case of diluted disinfectants used in hospitals. She has been released one day later and placed under house arrest.

According to the General Prosecutor’s office, Flori Dinu is charged with 99 counts of continued fraud and 29 counts of simple fraud, as well as improper participation in hindering disease control.

Flori Dinu was summoned to the General Prosecutor’s  on Friday and, as she failed to show up prosecutors issued a peremptory writ on her name and she was brought under escort.

According to Digi24, Flori Dinu told prosecutors that Dan Condrea was the only person who took the decisions and who would interfere in the manufacturing process of the products.

The Hexi Pharma manager admitted that she knew that the disinfectants were diluted, acoording to a recipe enforced precisly by Dan Condrea.

According to prosecutors, Hexi Pharma clinched contracts with 152 medical units to supply them with biocidal products during 2014-2016, with a total value of about RON 51 million.

She is the first individual indicted in this case, as Hexi Pharma owner Dan Condrea, another suspect, died in a car crash two weeks ago before prosecutors had the chance to hear him.