Deputy Mircea Roşca, indicted for corruption, with an overturned conviction and freed from criminal charges following the statute of limitations, could take Iulian Dumitrescu’s place as head of the PNL Prahova branch.
Mircea Roșca, PNL deputy
After Iulian Dumitrescu, indicted for corruption, resigned following the new criminal charges brought against him by DNA prosecutors, the chairmanship of the county organization could be taken over by a former indicted for corruption, deputy Mircea Roşca. Roşca’s name was submitted as a proposal, but he was not validated in the position, as an interim, in Monday’s meeting of the party’s leadership forum, writes news.ro.
PNL spokesperson, Ionuţ Stroe, spoke, at the end of the meeting, about the situation at PNL Prahova.
“There has not yet been a decision regarding the validation of Mr. Mircea Roşca. It is a proposal of the Prahova organization and Mr. Mircea Roşca ensures, somewhat, the leadership of the organization during this transitional period. No decision has been made at the moment”Stroe said on Monday afternoon.
Roşca was also president of PNL Prahova, during the period when the formation was led by Crin Antonescu. He was also vice-president of the organization, being accused of acts of corruption that DNA prosecutors claimed were committed during that period.
“During 2011, as the vice-president of the Prahova county organization of a party, the defendant Roşca Mircea demanded from a whistleblower – a company administrator, the sum of 20,000 euros in order to exercise his influence over the president of that period of the local organization Azuga, Prahova county – the defendant Popescu Gabriel Stelian and, through him, on the other members of the Azuga Local Council and the decision-making factors within the Azuga City Hall, in order to facilitate the acquisition of some land within the respective locality by the whistleblower’s company, an amount from which actually received – through the defendant Popescu Gabriel Stelian – 5,000 euros, and 11,000 euros were used in the interests of the political formation he led from the county level”submitted the DNA at the time the case was sent to court.
The prosecutors also accused Mircea Roşca of the fact that, between 2011-2014, he received from the defendant Rotilă Adrian (his first cousin) money and other benefits (construction worth 35,418.39 lei, the use of an Audi A8 car – consideration for leasing installments paid in the amount of 115,299 lei and other goods in the amount of 403,248.29 lei), in exchange for the intervention of the decision-makers within some public institutions in Prahova County (the County Hospital, the County Council, the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection – Neuropsychiatric Recovery and Rehabilitation Center for Adults with Handicap Călineşti, Autonomous Administration of the Heritage of the State Protocol – Branch for Representation and Protocol Sinaia) on which he had influence through the qualities he held successively at the level of the authorities local and central public and at political level (county councillor, vice-president/president of the Prahova county organization of a party, director at SC Hidro Prahova SA – Sinaia Branch, vice-president of the Prahova County Council, deputy in the Romanian Parliament), in order to assign to the companies owned by him – SC ADLIV TERMO SRL Comarnic and SC STANEVIP SRL Comarnic – of public procurement contracts.
Roşca was convicted of influence peddling, receiving a three-year suspended sentence. However, the sentence was annulled on the grounds that it was given by a panel that was not specialized in judging corruption cases. It was about the famous and controversial decisions taken in the judiciary during the period when the PSD was led by Liviu Dragnea, and Florin Iordache had a difficult word to say regarding the judiciary.
The process was restarted from scratch, the file being moved from one court to another and receiving numerous deadlines for procedural reasons, until the facts were prescribed. In April this year, a panel of five judges from the High Court of Cassation and Justice ordered the termination of the trial in which Mircea Roşca was accused of corruption. Along with Roşca, his cousin and several people who held or still hold positions in several public institutions escaped the charges. Among the defendants in whose case the facts are prescribed are Strâmbeanu Adrian – former manager of the Ploieşti County Emergency Hospital, Semcu Adrian Emanuil – former vice-president of the Prahova County Council, David Simona – director of the Călineşti Neuropsychiatric Recovery and Rehabilitation Center for Adults with Handicap from the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection, Savu Cristiana – economic director at the Autonomous Directorate of the State Protocol Heritage Administration – Branch for Representation and Protocol Sinaia, Fâcă Mihail – former public administrator of Prahova county, former secretary of state in the Ministry of the Environment. Some of these people have retired from public life, others are still influential figures in the political life of Prahova and still hold positions paid from public money.
