PM Ponta–new hearing at the anti-corruption body, he asks for the case disjunction

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PM Victor Ponta came at the National Anti-corruption Directorate on Thursday to be heard in the Turceni Rovinari file, in which he is prosecuted for three crimes. Before entering the DNA HQs he said: “If we passed the Tax Code, now I can come and give a statement, too.”

The premier stayed at DNA for about one hour and a half, saying after he left that the hearing was civilized and he answered all the prosecutor’s questions. Ponta informed that he had asked investigators to disjoint the charges againsy him from the big ‘Turceni-Rovinari’ file so that a solution should be pronounced as soon as possible.

The last time Ponta went to DNA for hearings was on August 19. On the same day, DNA informed that prosecutors have seized one of Ponta’s apartments in order to recover the RON 51,322 prejudice that would have been caused by the prime minister through his complicity to money laundering in the ‘Turceni-Rovinari’ file.

PM Ponta retorted on Facebook. “I regret that the political and media fight is carried with deceitful weapons. The expertise in my case reveals that “Sova and Partners” company deduced expenses of RON 51,321 based on the contract with me and also points that “Victor Ponta Legal Practice” has paid taxes worth RON 53,000!!! So, presenting just the first part is meant to manipulate the public opinion, by deliberately ignoring the pay of those RON 53,000! Adding up the two sums no prejudice to the Romanian state is resulting, on the contrary, the state cashed in an extra RON 2,000,” the Romanian prime minister wrote on his Facebook page.

“And the distraint was levied on July 13, not today, as the media erroneously reported,” Ponta added.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta has been placed under indictment about a month ago in the file he is prosecuted along with Dan Sova. The Romanian premier is prosecuted for forgery in deeds by private signature, complicity to tax evasion and money laundering in Turceni-Rovinari case.
Judicial sources say that DNA would have found evidence against Victor Ponta, namely certain contracts attesting the partnership between Ponta’s private legal practice and Sova’s, during the searches conducted at Dan Sova’s office in April this year.
Social-Democrat Senator Dan Sova has been prosecuted since August 2014 for complicity to abuse of office, after his private legal practice clenched three legal assistance contracts with Turceni and Rovinari complexes that caused a RON 3.5 million prejudice to them.

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