Officials remanded in latest illegal retrocessions case, set free. Liberal MP Ioan Oltean to be investigated at large

Businessman Mihai Rotaru, former head of the National Agency for Property Restitution (ANRP) Crinuța Dumitrean and the other persons who were part of the ANRP committee that granted Rotaru a compensation of RON 109 million for a overrated plot of land, will be released from prison. They will be subject to legal restrictions pending trial, according to the Supreme Court’s final ruling on Thursday.

The same court ordered that Mihai Rotaru, Crinuţa Dumitrean, Sergiu Diacomatu, Rodica Constantinovici, Lăcrămioara Alexandru and Sergiu Negurici should be placed under remand on November 28. Dumitrean is seven months pregnant.

Mihai Rotaru is known for his businesses in energy and real estate. He is also the main shareholder at Universitatea Craiova football club. He is charged with giving an EUR 600,000 bribe to Liberal MP Ioan Oltean to intercede with ANRP members to his benefit. Subsequently, Rotaru got a compensation of almost RON 109m for a plot of land, which was thus overrated by over RON 87m.

Crinuța Dumitrean, along with Sergiu Diacomatu, Remus Baciu, Rodica Constantinovici, Lăcrămioara Alexandru, Marko Attila and Cătălin Teodorescu, used to be part of the central committee for the retrocessions settlement functioning upon ANRP.

Cătălin Teodorescu is also subject to legal restrictions pending trial in this case, with a bail set to RON 1m, after the Chamber vetoed the anti-corruption prosecutors’ arrest request in his case on Wednesday. In turn, MPs Oked the DNA’s pre-trail detention of Ioan Oltean.Later on Thursday, the Supreme Court decided that Oltean should also be subject to legal restrictions pending trial, thus opposing the National Anti-corruption Directorate’s request to hold the Liberal on remand in this case.

In May, Police put out an APB on Marko Attila, former UDMR deputy, for his investigation in a different file.