The former head of BCCO, who killed a woman in Popest Leorden while driving drunk and under the influence of drugs, asks to be released from the pre-trial detention center

A drugged-out driver who injured two women, one of whom died, and hit five parked cars in Popeşti-Leorden, appealed against a restraining order, the Ilfov court will rule on it on Wednesday. The 59-year-old man is a reserve colonel, former head of the Bucharest Anti-Organized Crime Brigade.

On Sunday, the Kornet court issued a warrant for the man’s preventive arrest for 30 days, the decision is not final. In fact, he appealed this measure, and on Wednesday he was brought to the Ilfiv court, which is to make a decision. The man’s lawyer requested house arrest.

The accident happened on Sunday on the street in Popest Leorden.

Hard footage of the moment of the accident

Footage captured by a surveillance camera of a house in Ilfov shows the moment when the driver drove into two women who were on the street and hit several parked cars. The video shows three people talking on the side of the road in Popeşti-Leorden, while the woman is right between two parked cars.

At one point, a car appears on the left side of the screen and crashes into one of the parked cars, crushing a woman between the cars and knocking over another.

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The Ilfov District Police Inspectorate (IPJ) reported that two women aged 51 and 56 were injured in the accident. Medical teams took the victims to two departments of the hospital, but later the 56-year-old woman died.

The driver, a 59-year-old man, was tested with a breathalyzer, which showed 1.12 mg/l of pure alcohol in exhaled air and, accordingly, with a drug test device, which gave a positive value for the consumption of psychoactive substances. He was taken to the hospital for collection of biological samples.

The man claimed that after the accident and before the arrival of police crews, he was hit by several people during the accident.

G4Media wrote that the driver is reserve colonel Konstantin Peun, now a special pensioner. He was the head of the Bucharest Brigade for the fight against organized crime, as well as the chief of staff of Gavril Dezhe, the Minister of Internal Affairs in the period 1996-1999).