The head of the Prahova District Council (CJ), Iulian Dumitrescu, is under judicial supervision for the crimes of bribery and false declaration, DNA reports. According to anti-corruption prosecutors, he could have received more than 16 million lei from the businessman through some relatives, and investigators have also formulated charges of falsifying property declarations in his case. “The sums in question were allegedly spent mainly on trips abroad and the purchase of luxury items outside the country, a private high school, tennis lessons, renting an elite residential complex, etc.,” prosecutors say.

• Iulian Dumitrescu, under DNA investigation, announces his resignation from all positions in the PNL

In a press release published on Thursday evening, the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) reports that the prosecutors of the Anti-Corruption Directorate “issued an order to initiate a criminal case and take measures of judicial control for a period of 60 days, starting from 01.02.2024, defendants:

• 1. DUMITRESKU IULIAN, President of the Prahova District Council, for committing crimes in the form of bribery and false testimony,
• 2. a natural person, a relative of Juliana Dumitrescu, for committing the crimes of complicity in bribery and forging documents under a personal signature,
• 3. a natural person related to Iulian Dumitrescu, for committing the crimes of complicity in bribery and perjury.”

As reported by DNA, the prosecutor’s office’s rulings state that in the case “there are data and evidence that testify to the following factual situation:

• The defendant Dumitrescu Iulian, with the help of the natural person from point 3, would demand in the period from November to December 2022 the entrepreneur to purchase in exchange for the amount of 47,500,000 lei social shares belonging to the natural person from point 3 to a commercial company, the value is overestimated compared to their real value, in connection with the performance of the duties of the president of the Prahova district council (CJ) and would receive by 12.04.2023 with the help of 2 accomplices the total sum of 16,210,000 lei. One of the businessman’s companies would have had a contract with CJ Prahova at the time of the current lawsuit, and after acquiring the company from the individual in point 3, he would have been assigned a new employment contract with the beneficiary CJ Prahova.

• After the claim, the individual from point 2 falsely made an account statement in the name of the trading company, which contained unreal information about the initial balance of the account, transactions and operations carried out on this account in the period from January to February 2023. In addition, after the claim, the individual the person from item 3 in June 2023 would submit a false statement to the fiscal authority for the financial statements for the year 2022 of the traded company.

• The two accomplices, although they would no longer have any official authority in the trading company in 2023, would continue to manage sums of money from some of its bank accounts, some of which would eventually go to Dumitrescu Julian, or as the case may be. it would be used to his advantage.

Allegation of forgery in the declaration of wealth

“At the same time, the defendant Iulian Dumitrescu in the property declarations dated 06/08/2021, 04/19/2022 and 06/15/2023, depending on the circumstances:

• – he would indicate the lower value of the dividends received by his wife from the commercial company in which she was associated, without declaring the total amount of 122,400 lei

• – he would not mention the loans received directly from the person specified in point 2, for the total amount of 2,575,000 lei

• – he would not mention the total amount of 3,451,881.82 lei, 50,075 pounds sterling and 24,000 euros spent for his benefit and his family members from the accounts of the individual mentioned in point 2.”

According to prosecutors, “the sums in question were mainly spent on foreign trips and luxury items purchased abroad, a private high school, tennis lessons, renting a luxury apartment complex, etc.”

Seizure of accounts

“In the case, the prosecutor’s office took preventive measures against the bank accounts of the three defendants, the real estate belonging to the defendant Dumitrescu Julian, and 19 real estate objects belonging to two accomplices,” DNA prosecutors note.

They also note that the accused were informed about the procedural qualities and charges, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 309 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Also, according to the cited source, checks are also being conducted in the case regarding:

• “Vasile Anna-Maria, State Administrator of Prahova District and Head of CA at Distribucie Energie Electrica România SA for committing the crime of falsifying declarations, in a continuous form, which essentially consists in the fact that he did not mention in 29 declarations the wealth of 2 lands that he owned man”.

Julian Dumitrescu was taken to the DNA hearing

We remind you that on Thursday evening, the president of the Prahova District Council, the first vice-president of the PNL, Julian Dumitrescu, came under judicial control in this case. Dumitrescu was brought to the DNA’s central structure for a hearing on Thursday afternoon. The prosecutor’s office also heard Dumitrescu’s sister and brother-in-law, and in this case, the house of chairman CJ Prahova was also searched, judicial sources told HotNews.ro.

On Thursday, DNA announced that searches were carried out at 19 addresses in Bucharest, Ilfov and Prahov, including the headquarters of a state institution, in an investigation aimed at the suspected commission of some corruption and document forgery crimes from 2020 to the present. civil servants in connection with the performance of official duties.

Judicial sources told HotNews.ro that Prahova County Council President Iulian Dumitrescu, the PNL’s first vice president and one of the party’s most influential leaders, is also being targeted.

Iulian Dumitrescu was allegedly suspected of accepting bribes and making false statements in connection with the award of the contract, and prosecutors searched both the headquarters of the Prahova District Council and Dumitrescu’s home in a Bucharest apartment complex, according to the sources cited.

The mentioned sources indicated that the investigation will concern the manner of concluding the contract for the design and implementation of the belt of the city of Mizil in Prahova County.

“I provide the prosecutors with all the necessary information and data”

Iulian Dumitrescu responded with a message posted on Facebook, in which he said he would provide all information to prosecutors and that he would not “hide behind any political or administrative position”:

• “I provide the prosecutors with all the necessary information and data. I am working with government agencies to clarify this situation as soon as possible.
• I will not hide behind any political or administrative position.
• When this phase of the investigation is complete, I will be transparent with the public about what happened. I have nothing to hide.”

Who is Julian Dumitrescu?

At the age of 51, Dumitrescu was born in the county of Prahova, in Valenia de Munte, but most of his political career was spent in the county of Calaras.

Iulian Dumitrescu had two mandates as a senator from PNL: 2012-2016, senator from Calaras, 2016-2020, senator from Prahov.

Before the local elections in 2020, he headed the PNL branch in Prakhov, establishing his place of residence in the city of Plopeni. He ran for the Prahova District Council from the PNL, receiving the support of the USR in 2020. The then president of USR Prahova, Mihai Policeanu, publicly announced that the party would support Dumitrescu for the post of president of CJ Prahova.

As soon as he became the head of the Prahova County Council, Dumitrescu supported his old colleagues in other important positions, whom he brought to Prahova from Kalaras County, where they held positions in the administration of this county, writes News.ro.

An example in this regard is Dumitru Tudone, the former general secretary of the Kalarash County Council, who moved to Prahova County to work in the county’s local administration. Tudone’s family is in Kelerash, according to sources close to the politician. At the time he was elected vice-president of the Prahova County Council, Tudone was sent to the DNA court, later acquitted.

During the more than three years since he headed CJ Prahova, Julian Dumitrescu was accused of rarely coming to the office, his political opponents claimed in informal discussions that he was running the institution “by phone”.

Iulian Dumitrescu entered into a direct conflict with Ploiesti Mayor Andrii Volosevic, who during this mandate accused President KJ Prahov of taking several actions or rejecting some measures in order to damage the public image of Ploiesti Mayor, although both were elected under the same party logo.

Elected first vice-president of the PNL in September 2021 in the “winning team” of Florin Citsu, Julian Dumitrescu, one of the most influential leaders of the PNL, ran for the position of Minister of Transport in October 2021 in the PNL-UDMR minority government with Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke

In the summer of 2021, Iulian Dumitrescu and liberal senator George Stange were registered by DNA in the office of Catalin Drula, then Minister of Transport, whom they asked to leave as heads of the Romanian Association for Saving Human Lives at Sea and the River Administration of the Lower Danube Galaţi, according to the proposal for a preventive the arrest filed by DNA prosecutors of the Constanța Court, with the advice of G4Media.ro.

Loans of almost 150,000 euros for PNL and individuals

According to the latest wealth declaration, made in June 2023, Iulian Dumitrescu and his wife own an apartment of more than 150 square meters, bought in 2008, and one of 45 square meters, bought in 2005, as well as a 2014 Range Rover release .

In 2023, Dumitrescu named among the loans 45,000 euros given to the National Liberal Party, as well as three loans to individuals for a total of 170,000 lei and 70,000 euros.

President CJ Prahova has several accounts in lei totaling less than 70,000 lei.

In the “debts” section, he mentions a loan of almost €127,000 with First Bank due in 2036, as well as a loan from an individual for $180,000 taken out in 2012 due this year.

In 2022, he collected 164,268 lei from CJ Prahova.

In 2020, he sold a plot of land for almost one million lei to a company, land located in Ilfov county, and on the same day he sold another plot of land located in Dambovitsa county to the same company for 775,000 lei.