Four police officers from Hunedoara are accused of stopping the former Petrosani municipal police chief on suspicion of being drunk on the road last year, but the officers failed to test him and then “falsified” the results of the alcohol test.

Judicial police officers of the General Anti-Corruption Directorate – Hunedoara County Anti-Corruption Service executed four arrest warrants issued by the Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office at the Hunedoara Court against four police officers of the Hunedoara County Police Inspectorate who were investigated for the crime of abuse of office, respectively complicity in abuse of office.

• “As a result of the investigative actions, it became clear that on the evening of March 16, 2023, one of the police officers, while performing the duties of the traffic police, stopped a car driven by v. the former chief of the municipal police of Petroshani, who was suspected of being drunk.
• Under such circumstances, in order not to detect the commission of an illegal act, namely driving a vehicle on public roads while intoxicated, the police officer did not test it with the provided breathalyzer to determine the concentration. alcohol in the air.
• At the same time, with the help of the other three policemen, he simulated a breathalyzer test of the driver in order to certify the zero value of the alcohol level in the exhaled air, thus making it impossible to take a possible biological blood sample. samples necessary to scientifically determine the concentration of alcohol in the body and thus prevent the wrongful or criminal liability of the driver in question,” the DGA said in a press release.

Four police officers were detained for 24 hours, and the prosecutor’s office demanded a preventive measure for 30 days.