The managers of Bagdasar-Arseni and Oncology Institute hospitals, indicted for bribery – ‘commissions’ of 5-10 pc

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has indicted Bogdan Paltineanu (left photo), former chief of the Aslan Institute, now manager of the Bagdasar-Arseni Hospital and Dan Nicolae Straja (right photo), manager at the ‘Alexandru Trestioreanu’ Oncology Institute. Both are charged with bribe taking and are under house arrest.

They had been remanded on June 10, the Ministry of Health announced the next day that the two managers were suspended from office.

According to the DNA release on Wednesday the prosecutors say:

“In the period May-August 2015, the defendant Paltineanu Bogdan, in the exercise of his attributions as manager of the ‘Ana Aslan’ National Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology in terms of concluding procurement contracts, performance of contracts, involving the unit in patrimonial operations, received from the representative of four companies a total amount of EUR 73,450 and RON 18,600 (approx EUR 4,130) (on May 12, 2015 – EUR 26,400, on May 19, 2015 – EUR 19,500, on June 16, 2015 – RON 18,600, on July 13, 2015 – EUR 5,000, on August 21, 2015 – EUR 22,500).

The money received by the defendant on the mentioned dates, in a building that belongs to him, in his private car and in the car of the firms’ representative, was the rate of the established commission (5-10%) for developing in good conditions (issuing orders, paying bills) of the contracts for reagents, medical furniture and medical devices which the institute had concluded with the respective companies.

In May 2015, the defendant Straja Nicolae Dan, in the exercise of its attributions as manager of the Professor Doctor ‘Alexandru Trestioreanu’ Oncology Institute in terms of concluding procurement contracts, performance of contracts, involving the unit in patrimonial operations, received from the representative of two companies a total amount of EUR 95,750 (on May 1, 2015 – EUR 55,000 and on May 8, 2015 – EUR 45,750), representing the commission established in order to develop, in good conditions, the supply contracts for medical devices (issuing orders, paying the bills).

The file has been sent for trial to the Bucharest Court, with the proposal to maintain the preventive and precautionary measures ordered against the two defendants.