The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will meet on Monday in a joint session to vote on the recall of Nikulae Bedalau as vice-president of the Audit Authority of the Chamber of Accounts after the former PSD parliamentarian was arrested on bribery charges. . Bădălău accepted his mandate at the Chamber of Accounts in October 2020.

Niculae Badalau is escorted by police after arriving at the Court of Appeal in BucharestPhoto: Inquam Photos – Sabine Kirstoveanu

The leadership of the parliament decided to give a deadline for the report until Monday, 12:00, in the assembled budget and finance committees, and the joint plenary session will meet from 14:00 to vote on the requests submitted by PSD and USR. regarding the recall from the post of vice-president of the Auditing Body of the Accounting Chamber, Nikulai Bedalau, who was arrested on charges of bribery.

USR asked the Bureau of the Two Houses of Parliament to initiate the procedure to recall Nikolaj Badelau from his position in the Accounts Chamber after his DNA detention.

Soon after, PSD spokesman Stefan Radu Oprea announced that the Social Democrats had submitted a request on Monday to the joint permanent bureaus of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to start the recall procedure from the post of member and vice president. the court of accounts of Nikulai Bedalau, a DNA suspect in bribery, because there was no release from him.

Former PSD senator Nikulaje Bedalau, vice-president of the Auditing Body of the Chamber of Accounts was arrested a week ago. The Bucharest Court of Appeal accepted DNA’s proposal for the preventive arrest of Nikulae Badalau, the preventive measure is set for 30 days.

The prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate – Anti-Corruption Division issued an order to open a criminal case and detain for 24 hours, starting on November 27, Niculae Bădălău during the events, the advisor of accountants in the Court of Accounts of Romania and the Vice-President of the Audit Authority in the same institution, for bribery , in continuous form, and trading in influence, as well as an individual, a representative of a commercial company, for bribery, according to DNA.

“On 09.08.2022 and 19.11.2022, the defendant Bădălău Niculae allegedly demanded from the mayor of the commune to enter into a contract regarding the “Reconstruction of the drinking water supply system…”, estimated at the cost of 7,071,925 lei without VAT, to a company managed by his relative, allowing to consider , that he has influence over a person in the management of the National Investment Company (CNI), whom he allegedly promised to induce to secure the financing of two projects submitted to this institution to the relevant city hall. In the period of 2021-2022, as part of the implementation of the contract that the same city hall concluded with the same commercial company, regarding the “Creation of a water supply network…”, the defendant Bădălău Niculae, through another Person under investigation in this case, offered the mayor more money , so that instead he would continue to pay the company in question, even for inappropriate work,” prosecutors argued.

According to the cited source, in the same context, after Badalau allegedly promised the mayor on November 19, 2022 to transfer 7% of the value of the mentioned contract (4,903,959.97 lei without VAT), as well as from the future contract, the attribution of which he sought to obtain for of the same company in the relevant city hall, on November 25, 2022, through the same businessman, he would transfer 35,000 lei to the mayor, which is part of the promised amount of money. In total, defendant Badelau Nikulae allegedly promised the mayor a total of €170,000, which is 7% of the value of the two contracts.

(Source: news.ro)