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Who are the ministers in the DNA attention in the Dancila Cabinet
After Liviu Dragnea said clearly that the party members with criminal problems will be able to be part of the government if they have the support of CEx,the official list of the Dancila Cabinet confirmed the acceptance in the government of several politicians with integrity problems. Radu Oprea, the minister for Business Environment, Commerce and Entrepreneurship, Paul Stanescu, vicepremier and minister of development, Rovana Plumb, minister of European Funds, Viorel Ilie, minister for the relation with the parliament and Lucian Sova, proposed to take the ministry of Transports are the ones who have issues with the law, some of them being investigated or sent to trial in difficult files, others avoiding the criminal investigation due to the help of the other MPs.
Radu Oprea, the social-democrat (PSD – ruling party) proposal for the ministry for Business Environment,Commerce and Entrepreneurship is one of the politicians with integrity issues who will get in the Victoria Palace after getting the vote of trust in the parliament.
Asked about the file on fiscal evasion in which he is involved, Radu Oprea stated on Friday that this is not a vulnerability and the file was sent to the prosecutors.
‘I wasn’t sent to the tribunal. The file was sent back to the prosecutors by the tribunal a year ago. Since then, nothing has happened. This file is not a vulnerability’ Oprea said, adding that he would not have run for another MP mandate if he had criminal issues.
Paul Stanescu, another social-democrat whose file could be reopened by DNA is the vicepremier and minister of Development.The National Anticorrption Directorate (DNA) required recently the reopening of a file on his name, a file which involves deeds of 2010, being inquired by DNA Craiova and closed down in 2013. The first deadline was to be for the 25th January.
It is a file on alleged deeds of 2010, when Paul Stanescu was the chairman of the County Council Olt. At that time, the DNA prosecutors investigated the way of financing of the football team FC Aluminiu ALRO Slatina, the way in which the public institution supported financially the football team being under investigation.
The investigation was started following a report of the Court of Accounts on 2010 as it was about a non-refundable financing of over two million lei. In 2013, the file was closed by DNA Craiova.
Paul Stanescu was rejected on 16 January by president Klaus Iohannis for the position of interim premier.
Stanescu took the position of minister of development and vicepremier to replace Sevil Shhaideh, after she resigned at the request of Mihai Tudose,who mentioned the issues with the justice the latter had, more exactly the investigation in the file ‘ Belina island’.
Rovana Plumb, for whom DNA required criminal investigation, is proposed for the ministry of European funds. On 22 September, the anti-corruption prosecutors required the acceptance of criminal investigation on her name in the Belina File in connection with accomplice to abuse in service, in the file where the former vicepremier Sevil Shhaideh was also included, which refers to the illegal allocation of a part of the Belina island and the Pavel branch to the Teleorman County Council.
The prosecutors showed that in her position as minister of the environment, Rovana Plumb‘ initiated and promoted the government decision 858/2013 ( which lasted only 17 hours) with the breach of the procedure at the level of the government for the elaboration, agreement and presentation of the projects of normative documents’.
The government decision was adopted some months later on 27 November, the Belina and Pavel branches being allocated from the public domain to the management of CJ Teleorman. The prosecutors consider that the way in which it was done break the constitution of Romania as well as a series of regulations which refer to the legislative procedure.
The deputies rejected in the plenary the DNA request for the criminal investigation of Rovana Plumb, in the ‘Belina island’ file with 183 votes against and 99 in favour, thus blocking her investigation.
Viorel Ilie, the minister for the relation with parliament was also helped by the MPs not to be investigated by the DNA. The anti-corruption prosecutors required criminal investigation for instigation to use of information which was destined to publicity or acceptance of access of non-authorised people to the information.
According to DNA, ‘the minister for the relation with the parliament (MPR) organised a competition for the hiring of civil servants on positions for a unlimited period of time. When referring to the competition, there were indicators that it was rigged so that some candidates who were accepted by the leadership of the ministry ( one of them being a close relation of Ilie Viorel) to get the positions, the competence criterion being irrelevant’.
The prosecutors say that the written examination was set for 31 July and in the context, before the exam, the minister for the relation with the parliament Viorel Ilie determined his cabinet manager Felicia Pop to require the members of the examination commission Maria Alexandrescu and Mihai-Cornel Zaharia for the papers and the keys for the written exam.
Lucian Sova, the minister proposed for the ministry of transport is under criminal investigation for the use of influence to get undeserved goods.
Lucian Sova was heard in January 2015 at DNA in the file where he was investigated together with the former judge of the Constitutional Court Toni Grebla.
Toni Grebla is criminally investigated for traffic of influence, the constitution of a criminal organised group and financial operations as deeds incompatible with his position, in order to get money or undeserved goods. The allegations were brought to his notice on 22 January, when he was taken by the investigators with warrant to the DNA.