Adrian Flavius ​​Cristea, a prosecutor from Craiova accused of stealing money and jewels given as evidence in cases investigating drug traffickers, was acquitted on Monday by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, but the decision is not final.

According to the court’s decision, Flavius ​​Cristea was acquitted of the crime of continuing abuse of office “because the act is not prescribed by the criminal law”, and of the crime of theft or destruction of documents he was acquitted “because there is no evidence that the defendant committed a crime”, reports Agerpres .

The decision can be appealed to the General Prosecutor’s Office within 10 days.

The case was handled by the Criminal Justice Investigation Division (SIIJ), which has since been disbanded, and the charges relate to the period when Flavius ​​Cristea worked for Craiova’s DIICOT dealing with drug-trafficking cases. Flavius ​​Cristea was later transferred to the prosecutor’s office at the Craiova court.

“Actually, after the evidence provided, it was established that the defendant, as a prosecutor in the DIICOT – ST Craiova case, regarding the manipulation of a number of 7 files, allegedly performed his duties stipulated by the Criminal Procedure Code. , by which he caused damage to the persons from whose inheritance sums of money and jewelry were seized, as well as caused damage to the rights or legal interests of these persons and DIIKOT, with the aim of obtaining an unlawful benefit for himself, consisting of sums and jewelry that had not already been identified as physical evidence, assets or sums to which protective measures would be applied within the framework of the criminal proceedings and in the case of taking possession of a ring provided as evidence by a witness,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. .

Prosecutor from Kraiova, accused of embezzlement of confiscated money

At the same time, the prosecutor is accused of stealing and destroying the page of the search protocol at home, which states that 2,700 lei were found in the subject’s room, and 1,600 lei were found in it. euros, sums of money that have been collected for research purposes.

During the trial at the Supreme Court, police officers from Craiova’s BCCO told the judges that they had worked with prosecutor Adrian Flavius ​​Cristea on several drug-trafficking cases.

After searching the drug dealers, the police handed over to the prosecutor the sums of money found in the homes of the drug dealers, without drawing up a receipt-handover protocol. Part of the money Flavius ​​Cristea kept for himself, being known as a lover of gambling – according to other accusations of the investigation.