The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday unanimously approved DNA’s request for a search warrant in the case of Deputy Daniel Tudorache, the former mayor of Sector 1, who was prosecuted for illegal and inflated purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic. pandemic.

The plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies should discuss and take a decision by voting also on Monday, from 16:00, regarding this request and the report of the Legal Commission.

Deputies will vote by secret ballot.

On November 16, DNA Chairman Krin Bologa asked the Chamber of Deputies for permission to conduct computer searches of the file in which PSD MP Daniel Tudorache, former mayor of Sector 1, is being prosecuted for illegal and overpriced purchases during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

According to the prosecutors, it is about a group that was created and coordinated by Marian Vangeli and which managed to get more than 13.5 million euros from the contracts concluded by the city halls.

In this dossier, Dan Tudoraci is suspected of complicity in the abuse of official position with particularly serious consequences.

The damage is more than 13.5 million euros

On October 21, DNA announced that it had opened the prosecution of 56 suspects, legal entities and individuals, including former mayor Marian Vangeli, who was a member of the local council in sector 5 until 2020, and former mayor Daniel Tudorache, a current PSD deputy, for illegal acquisitions , inflated costs created by institutions under the local councils of sectors 1 and 5. Prosecutors say the group was created and coordinated by Marian Vangeli and managed to obtain more than 13.5 million euros from these contracts.

According to DNA, 56 people are being prosecuted for illegal overpriced purchases made by government agencies/companies under Sectors 1 and 5 local councils, some of which are coordinated by the Mayor, respectively the Administration of Pre-University Education and Public Health Units (AUIPUSP) Sector 1 , the Company for Investment and Development in Health Protection and Areas of Public-Private Interest (CIDSDIPP) Sector 1 and SC ECONOMAT Sector 5.

HotNews.ro wrote two years ago about the illegal purchases of city halls in sectors 1 and 5:

• PSD Administration: Sector 1 City Hall Paid Over €15,000 Each For Thermal Scanners Installed In Schools
• The City Hall of Sector 1 keeps secret the company from which it purchased 48,000 tablets that will be given to students and teachers for free / The purchase worth about 76 million lei was made without an auction
• The mayor of Sector 1, Clotilde Armand, announced who won the contract for the purchase of 48,000 tablets, the information of the former mayor is kept secret.
• The disaster of Economat, shops that the City Hall of Sector 5 forced to offer cheaper products: no product inventory was conducted for 2 years. It is not known what has disappeared / Illegal payments of hundreds of millions

Then the DNA announced that among those prosecuted are:

• Marian-Daniel Vangeli, at the time of the events, councilor of the local council of Bucharest District 5 (in the previous CL mandate), for the crimes of: creation of an organized criminal group, incitement to abuse of official position, with particularly serious consequences (4 facts, of which 1 in extended form ), incitement to embezzlement, which caused particularly serious consequences, aiding in the forgery of documents with a personal signature (11 acts, of which 3 in the extended form), incitement to falsification of official documents (2 acts, one of them in the extended form), incitement to forgery of documents with a personal signature, in a durable form,
• Romeo Aurelian Clinchiu, on the date of the facts, director of the Administration of Pre-University Education and Public Health Units (AUIPUSP) Sector 1, for crimes: creation of an organized criminal group, in the form of support, abuse of official authority, with particularly serious consequences (2 facts), intellectual forgery (18 facts), use of official forgery (4 facts, one of which is in a long form), illegal participation in intellectual forgery, in the way of inciting a person who commits acts without guilt, complicity in intellectual forgery, complicity in IT forgery, in in a long-term form, complicity in the embezzlement of funds, which caused particularly serious consequences,
• Marian-Leonard Petre, on the date of the facts, general director of SC Economat Sector 5 SRL, for crimes: abuse of official position, which caused particularly serious consequences, in a continuing form, creation of an organized criminal group, in the form of facilitation, intellectual forgery (15 facts) , use of official forgery (3 facts, one of which is in full form), aiding in computer forgery (3 facts, one of which is in full form), falsification of official documents in full form, complicity in falsification of official documents, embezzlement that caused particularly grave consequences, attempted fraud, which caused particularly grave consequences,
• Anka Mihaela Moise, on the date of the facts, director of the Investment and Development Company in the field of health care and public-private interests (CIDSDIPP), sector 1, for the crimes: abuse of official position with particularly serious consequences, creation of an organized criminal group, in the form of facilitation , embezzlement of funds that caused particularly serious consequences, intellectual forgery (9 facts, one of which is in solid form), material forgery in official documents, use of official forgery,
• Maria Magdalena Eftimie, on the date of the facts, executive director of the Department of Economic Management of the City Hall of Bucharest Sector 1 and representative of the shareholder of Bucharest Sector 1 at the general meeting of shareholders of CIDSDIPP Sector 1 SA, for crimes: aiding in the abuse of official position that caused particularly serious consequences, aiding in embezzlement funds, which caused particularly serious consequences, the creation of an organized criminal group,
• Rezvan Rotaru, on the date of the facts, director of the administrative department CIDSDIPP Sector 1 SA, for crimes: complicity in the abuse of official position, which caused particularly serious consequences, intellectual forgery (3 facts), forgery of documents under personal signature.
• Ionuț Tiberiu Caracote, on the date of the facts, representative of the shareholder Administratia Domeniului Public (ADP) Sector 1, at the general meeting of CIDSDIPP Sector 1 SA, for the crimes: – complicity in the abuse of official position, if the public servant obtained for himself or another person an illegal use that caused particularly serious consequences, complicity in the embezzlement of funds, which caused particularly serious consequences,
• Daniel Tudorache, deputy, at the time of the events, mayor of Sector 1 of Bucharest, for crimes: complicity in the abuse of official position with particularly serious consequences,
• Dragos Florescu, on the date of the facts, President of the Board of Directors of CIDSDIPP Sector 1 SA for crimes: complicity in the abuse of official position, with particularly grave consequences (2 actions), complicity in the embezzlement of funds, with particularly grave consequences, intellectual forgery.

A criminal group coordinated by Marian Vangeli

The charges brought by the prosecutor’s office are as follows:

• “Starting in August 2019, Marian Vangeli, together with 6 other individuals and 5 legal entities, allegedly created an organized criminal group that, during 2020, operated at three levels and hierarchically with the aim of influencing the course of purchases made by the public. institutions subordinate to local councils 1 and 5 sector.
• During 2020, the activities of this group would be supported by other individuals, including the civil servants mentioned above and a public procurement expert, an employee of a company that provides consulting services to the Department of Pre-University Education and Health. Subdivisions (AUIPUSP) Sector 1, Company for Investments and Development in Health Protection and Areas of Public-Private Interest (CIDSDIPP) Sector 1 and SC Economat Sector 5 SRL
• According to a clearly developed and implemented “program”, the members of the criminal group were supposed to embezzle public funds from the specified public institutions, as a result of which illegal sums of money obtained as a result of causing losses to the budgets of public institutions through purchases made at excessive prices will be appropriated by the members of the group.
• The members of the group acted to prepare, organize and support the commission of several counterfeiting crimes aimed at creating fictitious commercial chains for the purpose of fictitious cascading supplies of products that were ultimately to be sold to government institutions at inflated prices and abuse of services for obtaining undue benefits (in any possible form of criminal participation), including with particularly serious consequences, in connection with the procurement procedures carried out by public entities.

The price of the nebulizer is 3.5 times higher than the market price

Using budget allocations for the purchase of goods and services and programs approved by the local councils of sectors 1 and 5 for the purchases necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic, the organized crime group coordinated by Marian Vangeli would operate in the manner described previously to defraud public funds :

• for the purchase of thermal scanners and tablets allocated for AUIPUSP Sector 1,
• allocated as equity/equity increase to CIDSDIPP Sector 1 SA and used to purchase biological decontamination nebulizers,
• company ECONOMAT Sector 5 and used for the purchase of tablets.

For example, a nebulizer would cost 3.5 times more than the original supplier.

Purchase of tablets for students

Regarding the contracts for the award of tablets, in order to create the appearance of legality, civil servants from Sector 1 AUIPUSP and Sector 5 ECONOMAT Bucharest, with the support of a public procurement expert, a consultant of two customers, made false open tender documents and simulated open tender procedures to award the relevant contracts, manipulating the public electronic procurement system (SEAP). In fact, the awarding of these tablets would be done before the simulation of tender procedures, through illegal negotiation procedures without prior publication.

The above-mentioned aspects would not have been achieved if the suspects, civil servants, had not committed a number of crimes of official forgery and had not violated their obligations under the main legislation regarding the organization of tenders for the conclusion of relevant contracts. .

As a result of the committed crimes, the members of the group received illegal benefits in the total amount of 67,811,280 lei.”

Daniel Tudorash, prosecuted by DNA in two other corruption cases

Daniel Tudorache, a current PSD MP, was sent to the DNA court on March 2 for influence peddling and money laundering, in a case in which he is accused of opening accounts in the name of his ex-wife and housekeeper, buying real estate worth 305,000 euros and 470 000 lei, as well as jewelry, including diamonds worth about two million euros.

In addition, DNA announced in July that Tudorache is being prosecuted along with four former mayor’s office directors in a massive 944 million lei malpractice case to fix tariffs for the sanitation company Romprest.