Former deputy Vlad Cosma and several businessmen who have been investigated by former prosecutor Mircea Negulescu are obliged to pay him moral damages worth one million lei.
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The Bucharest Court decided, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, that the former prosecutor from DNA Ploiești, Mircea Negulescu, known under the nickname “Orange”, must receive one million lei moral damages from a group of people he has criminally investigated and who have subsequently accused him of having instrumented abusive files. The decision is not final and can be appealed within 30 days.
“Admits in part the request for a court formulated by the applicant in contradiction with the defendants Cosma Vlad Alexandru, Alexe Răzvan, Stroe Cecilia, Usurelu Petrică Lucian, Păvăleanu Marcel Cristian, Vaida Mihai Florin, Luca Teodor Ovidiu, Vitter David Daniel, Păduraru Cristian. Obliges the defendants Cosma Vlad Alexandru, Alexe Răzvan, Stroe Cecilia, Usurelu Petrică Lucian, Păvăleanu Marcel Cristian, Vaida Mihai Florin, Luca Teodor Ovidiu, Vitter David Daniel, Păduraru Cristian, to pay to the applicant the amount of 1,000,000 lei with the title of moral damages“, is shown in the minute of the decision.
Mircea Negulescu was acquitted
Mircea Negulescu, said “orange”, was sued in June 2020, the file being instrumented by Adina Florea, former prosecutor in the special section. He was accused that, when he was working as a prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Ploiesti Court of Appeal, he “made” evidence and forced four persons, including businessman Răzvan Alexe, to make denunciations and false statements in a file in which former deputy Vlad Cosma was investigated for tax evasion and corruption.
“In fact, as a result of the evidence administered, it was found that the defendant, as a case prosecutor in a file of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Ploiesti Court of Appeal, would have ticked unrealistic evidence by building a false scenario, respectively obtaining a denunciation from a person already investigated in the same file and recording non-persons under the morale. On four people, three of them being heard with both protected and real identity, to give false statements, all in order to prove the existence of tax evasion and corruption of voters and to attract the criminal liability of an innocent person for imaginary acts.“, in June 2020, the special section announced.
Mircea Negulescu was definitively acquitted for the charges of abusive research, influencing witnesses’ statements and improper participation in misleading the judicial bodies, in the form of instigating in continuous form.
