Former Petrom trade union leader Liviu Luca and several of his close associates escape charges of forming an organized crime group, embezzlement and money laundering with losses of around 15 million lei in a case they were referred to the DIICOT court. The court found that the facts were invalid, but the judges decided that the defendants should pay 15,591,262 lei to PSV Company SA. The decision is not final.

The judges of the Prahova court found that in the case in which Liviu Luka and seven other defendants were sent to the DIICOT court for the embezzlement of PSV Company SA, the facts became invalid, News.ro reports.

The eight were referred to the DIICOT court in June 2016 for crimes related to joining an organized criminal group, money laundering and embezzlement or complicity in them, the facts, according to the investigation, took place in the period 2005-2009.

The judges, who established the statute of limitations on these facts, decided, on the other hand, to accept the civil claim filed by PSV Company SA and to oblige the defendants to pay 15,591,262 lei.

The decision is not final.

Accusations in the case of embezzlement of the PSV company

The prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Ploiesti accuse in this case Liviu Luka, Sorin Mihai, Rada Florea, Gheorghe Stan, Gheorghe Shupeal, Zizi Annastopol, Mircea Baikojana and Nikolaj Sprintsara of creating an organized criminal group. , embezzlement that caused particularly serious consequences, in a long-term form, incitement to embezzlement, money laundering and complicity in money laundering.

According to the prosecution’s indictment, in the period 2005-2009, Liviu Luca initiated and created an organized criminal group, which at the time of the commission was joined by Zizi Annastopol, economic director of PSV Company SA (formerly SC Petromservice SA), Sorin Mihai and Gheorghe Shupeala, former general directors , Gheorghe Stan, Economic Director of Edilconst SA and Radu Florea, CEO of the company, seeking to obtain material funds from the property of the company PSV, which were used for the construction of the “Assembly of Housing and Outbuildings”, located in the area of ​​Păuleşti, County of Prahova, on Luke’s benefit.

“It was established that the defendant Luca Liviu was able to carry out criminal activities due to the fact that he controlled both the SNP Petrom SA Workers’ Association and SC PSV Company SA (formerly SC Petromservice SA), as a trade union leader (FSLI Petrom), president of the Association’s Board of Directors employees of SNP Petrom SA, respectively the representative of the majority shareholder at the general meeting of shareholders of SC PSV Company SA,” DIICOT said in a press release in June 2016. release

The investigation established that in the period from July 17, 2005 to February 27, 2009, representatives of Petromservice, through Zizi Anagnastopol, Sorin Mihai and Gheorghe Şupeală, illegally transferred in the interests of Liviu Luca to SC Edilconst SA the amount of 14,649,762.73 lei for the construction works carried out on “SC Profesional Corpconsult SA Headquarters and Appendices Assemblies – Păuleşti”, thereby causing losses to the company.

“It was also stated that the members of the criminal group, through further actions, tried to hide the fact that the defendant Luca Liviu is the real beneficiary of the construction,” the prosecutors claimed.

Mircea Baykoyan is accused of contributing to the embezzlement of 7,489,143.88 lei from the company’s budget in the interests of Liviu Luka by approving 33 tax acts during the years 2007-2009, as the director of the construction department of Petromservice. invoices and subsequent payment of their compensation to the company that performed the construction work on the “SC Profesional Corpconsult SA Head Office and Annex Complex – Păuleşti”, whose real beneficiary was Liviu Luca.

In the case of Nikolay Sprintsaru, prosecutors noted that in the period from March 30, 2007 to June 30, 2008, as an economist of Petromservice, performing preventive financial control as part of his duties, he illegally and without any supporting documents approved 21 fiscal accounts- invoice in the amount of 4,187,340.78 lei, issued by the company that performed construction work on the “SC Profesional Corpconsult SA Headquarters and Annexes Complex – Păuleşti”.

The prosecutor’s office imposed protective arrest on this case.

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