Businessman Rami Gaziri, known as the “Chicken King”, is avoiding charges of defrauding European funds of more than a million euros after nearly a decade of litigation.

Rami Ghaziri, a Lebanese businessman with French citizenship, the owner of Avicola Crevedia, was referred to the DNA Court in 2014 for the crime of improper participation in the commission of the crime of using or providing false documents or declarations that lead to the improper receipt of funds from the general budget of the European Union and false documents with a private signature, reports Agerpres.

After nine years of court proceedings, the court in Dambovitsa established that the facts of which the Lebanese citizen was accused have lost their validity based on the decisions of the Constitutional Court, so he can no longer bear criminal responsibility.

Instead, the judges ordered Rami Gaziri and SC Agroli Group SRL from Krevedia to jointly pay 5,412,045 lei to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – Paying Agency for Rural Development and Fisheries, representing the defrauded amount.

For damages, the arrest imposed by the prosecutor’s office on 32 buildings and a luxury car Ferrari FF belonging to a company from Crevedia was preserved.

Fake documents for access to European funds

Livanets is accused of providing access to European funds related to the development of a project for the construction of a feed mill in 2008 to a commission for financial evaluation of proposals created at the level of SC Agroli Group SRL. , both with unreliable documents issued in the name of a company also controlled by him, and with false documents issued in the name of Dutch and German companies.

In addition, the prices indicated in the submitted proposals were not real, but artificially inflated in order to generate inflated costs.

Later, the “best offer” file was sent to the Paying Agency for Rural Development and Fisheries by an employee of SC Agroli Group SRL, who did not know that the offers were simulations and/or false offers.

The purpose of these actions was to obtain for the beneficiary SC Agroli Group SRL cash in the amount of 10,824,090 lei, of which 5,412,045 lei were collected.

Rami Gaziri appeared as a whistleblower in the corruption case against former SRI officer Daniel Dragomir, who fled Romania to avoid a 3-year, 10-month prison sentence.

According to DNA, the Lebanese gave Dragomir the sum of €462,000 to have an SRI officer intervene in favor of the businessman with civil servants, heads of the Ministry of Finance, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration and the Financial Guard. (photo source DreamsTime)