21.03.2013
PRESS RELEASE
The Public Information and Press Relations Bureau within the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice is authorized to bring to public knowledge the following:
The prosecutors of the Section for criminal pursuit and forensics within the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice have ordered the beginning of the criminal pursuit against the accused CRACIUNESCU GRIGORE (deputy in the Romanian Parliament) for committing the offence of conflict of interests.
From the resolution regarding the beginning of the criminal pursuit, the prosecutors held as factual situation that in the exercise of his duties (namely as mayor of the town Pascani, position held between 2008 – 2012), the accused has carried out acts and has participated in taking of decisions, by which a material advantage was directly realized for his son. So, the accused concluded, by violation of the legal provisions, several contracts with trading companies at which his son appears as principal shareholder and / or manager.
We mention that the beginning of the criminal prosecution is a phase of the criminal process regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code, aiming at the creation of the procedural framework for the administration of evidence, activity which cannot, in any situation, infringe the principle of presumption of innocence.