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| Crimes and Justice 28/04/2011 |
| (2011-04-28) |
| Last updated: 2011-04-29 12:34 EET |
Almost forgotten as a politician, the former Christian – Democratic Agriculture Minister Ioan Avram Muresan on Wednesday was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the magistrates of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. Tried for abuse of office against public interests, in aggravated form, for embezzlement and intellectual fraud, Muresan approved, according to anti-corruption prosecutors, the removal from the state reserves of 5 thousand tons of raw sunflower oil, which were provided to a company that did not observe the necessary legal conditions to borrow from the national reserve.
That happened between 1999 and 2000, and the former minister was prosecuted in 2003. The judiciary needed therefore eight years to rule in this case, without making a final decision though, because Muresan’s lawyers have already announced they are going to appeal. Also on Wednesday, the former director of the Romanian Railways National Company, Mihai Necolaiciuc, was heard by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, where prosecutors presented the counts in a new case, in which he is accused of abuse of office.
A runaway for years, and extradited by the US on April 20th, Nicolaiciuc was sent to court for having embezzled 70 million Euro of the company money, during his term in the early 2000. The latest scandal that has made the headlines recently is the one involving the former Liberal – Democratic Labour Minister, Ioan Botis, who left the government last week. The National Integrity Agency discovered that Botis was guilty of conflict of interests and notified the National Anti-corruption Directorate.
President Traian Basescu himself has stated that the former Labour Minister must come forward and clarify his situation, after being accused of having allocated, through the ministry, European funds benefiting his own wife. In the meantime, anti-corruption prosecutors sent to court 66 border police and customs officers from the Siret customs point, on the border with Ukraine, for bribe taking, bribe giving and the setting up of an organized crime group. Most of them are in temporary police custody.
According to the National Anti-corruption Directorate, between September 2010 – January 2011, the defendants got hundreds of thousands of Euros from people crossing the border, to allow the latter enter Romania with products exceeding the legal amounts, usually counterfeited cigarettes. Prosecutors seized the defendants’ goods and money found upon searching.
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