23.11.2012

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:

            Following up the investigations in a file having as object offences related to the case  known  by the media  as “frauds at the referendum”, 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 carried out and are still carrying out  investigations against  the members of two polling stations in the territory of  Constanta county.

            In this context, the prosecutors  ordered, on 23.11.2012, the beginning  of the  criminal pursuit against the defendants FLOREA DIANA, GHEORGHE ALEXANDRA, MOLDOVEANU IONUT ANDREI, LAZAR ALIN FLORIN, HAGI-CALIU ENGHIN, AGACHE MARIANA  and POSIRCA STEFAN (members of the polling station no. 490 within the  locality Lumina) for committing the offence of introducing into the voting box of a supplementary number  of voting papers than those voted by the electors or the falsifying by any means of the documents from the  voting offices, provided by art. 55 of Law no. 3/2000.

            By resolution for initiating the criminal pursuit, the prosecutors have held the following factual situation:

On the occasion of the carrying out of the national Referendum from 29.07.2012, the defendants have introduces  into the voting box a supplementary number of  voting papers , according to a number of persons who didn’t appear  at the polling station and whose signature was executed in false,  altering, in this way, the reality of the data registered in the documents  drawn at the level of the electoral office.

We mention that the beginning of the criminal pursuit is a step of the criminal process, regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code, aiming the creation of the  procedural framework for administration of  evidence, activity which cannot in any situation defeat the principle of presumption of innocence.