List of corruption scandals in Romania

This is a list of notable corruption scandals in Romania.

Investigations resulting in final sentences

People involved (office held/occupation)DateDetailsConviction date
Liviu Dragnea (Member of Parliament; Leader of the Social Democratic Party; former Deputy Prime-Minister) 2012 Convicted for using his political influence to mastermind a campaign in swinging a referendum (impeachment) vote against former president Traian Băsescu in 2012, through the use of bribes and forged ballot papers.[1] He was handed a suspended sentence of 2 years.[2] 22 April 2016
Gheorghe Hânsă (Mayor of Cernavodă) 20052008 Sentenced to 3 years 8 months for official misconduct by concluding contracts detrimental to the town's finances.[3] His son, Tiberiu Marius Hânsă, was sentenced to 3 years 2 months for complicity in the crime perpetrated by his father. 13 April 2016
Florin Aurelian Popescu (Member of Parliament, former President of the Dâmbovița County Council) 2012 Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for official misconduct. Using his position as leader of the local Democratic Liberal Party organization and President of the Dâmbovița County Council, Florin Popescu requested a local entrepreneur that 60,992 kilos grilled chicken be delivered to him. Subsequently Florin Popescu distributed the chicken to the potential voters during the electoral campaign for the 2012 local elections.[4] 14 March 2016
Alin Trășculescu (Member of Parliament) 20102012 Sentenced to 3 years in prison for influence-peddling, instigation to money laundering, embezzlement and forgery.[5] 4 March 2016
Constantin Boșcodeală (Mayor of Buzău) 20022008 Sentenced to 3 years probation for official misconduct and banned from running for the mayor office for 5 years[6] 1 March 2016
Codruț Șereș (Minister of Economy) 2002-2004 Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for embezzlement of funds belonging to the Hidroelectrica company[7] 29 February 2016
Gruia Stoica (Founder and President of the Grampet Group; CEO of Grup Feroviar Român, the largest private rail cargo company in Romania) 2013 Sentenced to 2 and a half years probation and 90 days community service for influence buying[8] 23 February 2016
Marian Neacșu (Member of Parliament, Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party) 2009 Sentenced to 6 months probation for conflict of interest after illegally hiring his own daughter at his MP office[9] 23 February 2016
Marian Ghiveciu (Member of Parliament) 2005-2006 Sentenced to 3 years probation for instigation to official misconduct in a case related to illegal retrocession of land plots in the Merei commune, Buzău County.[10] 23 February 2016
Adrian Grăjdan (Head of the State Inspectorate for Constructions (ISC)) 2012 Convicted for the crime of favouring the perpetrator (obstruction of justice) when four days after he was appointed Head of the ISC, he withdrew all the graft claims of the ISC against convicted former prime minister Năstase, despite the fact that the ISC suffered damages amounting to €1.5 million.[11] 22 February 2016
Nicolae Matei (Mayor of Năvodari) 2012 Convicted for attempting to bribe a high-ranking policeman with two plots of land in Năvodari valued at €46,160, in return for shielding Nicolae Matei from a criminal investigation by influencing the evidence against him.[12] 19 February 2016
Ioan Stan (Member of Parliament) 2012 Convicted for requesting a 130,000 lei (€31,000) bribe in return for influence-peddling. He received 60,000 lei (€14,300) in three installments that he partially used for election campaigning. Additionally, he indirectly received products for his election campaign with a value of 535,000 lei (€127,400).[13] 25 January 2016
Mihai Toader (CEO of Poșta Română (Romanian Post)) 2008 Convicted for acquiring software products from a Cyprus-based company at a price overvalued by 12 times. The damage is estimated at €6.5 million.[14] 15 October 2015
Cristian Poteraș (Mayor of Sector 6 (Bucharest)) 2006 Convicted for abuse of office in a case related to illegal retrocession of lands in Romania’s capital.[15] 22 May 2015
Ioan Niculae (Richest man in Romania in April 2014, according to Forbes) 2009 Convicted for illegally financing the Social Democratic Party's presidential campaign in 2009.[16] 2 April 2015
Monica Iacob Ridzi (Minister of Youth and Sport) 2009 Convicted for embezzling money that was spent by the Ministry on the Youth Day festivities[17] 16 February 2015
Miron Mitrea (Member of Parliament) 2001-2002 Convicted for receiving a €300,000 bribe in exchange for keeping Irina Jianu as chief-inspector of the State Inspectorate for Constructions.[18] 13 February 2015
Constantin Nicolescu (Senator; President of the Argeș County Council)
Gheorghe Nicuț (Mayor of Curtea de Argeș)
Andrei Călin Ioan (Mayor of Câmpulung)
Ştefan Ion (Mayor of Budeasa)
Ioan Popa Ioan (Mayor of Stâlpeni)
2006-2008 Convicted for using false documents to contract financing of €900,000 from European funds that should have been used to revamp four schools. Revamping work was carried out by a company called Zeus SA. Nicolescu was also convicted for having taken a €60,000 bribe from businessman Cornel Penescu.[19][20] 5 February 2015
George Copos (Wealthy businessman; Member of Parliament; Deputy Prime-Minister) 2004 Convicted with tax evasion of around $1 million that was linked to the sale of several retail spaces from his company, Ana Electronics, to the Romanian National Lottery.[21] 25 August 2014
Dan Voiculescu (Senator; Founder of the Conservative Party; Wealthy businessman/Oligarch; former Securitate agent)
Gheorghe Mencinicopschi (Director of the Food Research Institute)
2003 Convicted for using his political influence in the privatization of the Food Research Institute which had an estimated value of €7.7 million, but was instead bought by his company, Grivco at an undervalued price of €100,000.[22] According to the prosecutors, the damages brought to the Romanian state amounted to over €60 million.[22] 8 August 2014
Sorin Apostu (Mayor of Cluj-Napoca) 2009-2011 Convicted for taking a €94,000 bribe in exchange for signing contracts related to the car insurance of the City Hall's cars and garbage trucks.[23][24] 7 July 2014
Emilian Valentin Frâncu (Mayor of Râmnicu Vâlcea) 2012 Convicted for receiving a bribe in exchange for awarding a contract for the construction of an overpass.[25] 26 March 2014
Relu Fenechiu (Minister of Transportation) 2002-2004 Fenechiu sold a number of old electrical transformers to Electrica Moldova at a highly inflated price of 2.8 million €.[26] 30 January 2014
Gheorghe Coman (Member of Parliament) 2002-2004 Sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for receiving a 3000 lei bribe (ca. 670 Euro)[27] 30 January 2014
Tudor Chiuariu (Minister of Justice)
Zsolt Nagy (Minister of Communications)
Mihai Toader (General Manager of the Romanian Post)
2005-2007 Chiuariu and Nagy illegally transferred some real estate owned by the Romanian Post to a private company[28] 24 January 2014
Sorin Pandele (Member of Parliament)
Costel Zamfir (Mayor of Bradu)
2007 Pandele received a 190,000 lei bribe in exchange of illegally issuing a land deed[29] 21 January 2014
Adrian Năstase (Prime Minister of Romania) 2001-2004 Năstase received as bribe some Chinese-made building materials and furnishings worth €630,000 from a construction entrepreneur, Irina Jianu, who, in exchange, was appointed the director of the State Construction Inspectorate.[30] 6 January 2014
Dan Păsat (Member of Parliament) 2009-2010 Păsat was convicted for blackmailing mayors of Giurgiu County communes to obtained contracts for his private company, Prod Invest SRL.[31] 12 December 2013
Antonie Solomon (Mayor of Craiova) 2002-2004 Solomon received a €50,000 bribe from businessman Cornel Penescu in order to issue a building permit for a hypermarket.[32] He was sentenced to three years in prison.[33] 20 September 2013
Ion Dumitru (Member of Parliament; Director of Romsilva) Dumitru acquired for Romsilva for $294,330 a Ukrainian-made 1970s bulldozer that had a value of $6,250; the equipment was never used as it was not suitable for the task it was bought.[34] 7 June 2013
Victor Babiuc (Minister of Defence)
Dumitru Cioflină (Chief of General Staff, Army General)
Gigi Becali (Wealthy businessman; Founder of the New Generation Party; Member of European Parliament; Member of Romanian Parliament)
1998 a land swap through which the Romanian state lost almost $1 million.[35] 20 May 2013
Nicolae Mischie (President of the Gorj County Council) Mischie received between businessman Clement Mocanu renovation services for three of his buildings, as well as bribes, in exchange for a contract for renovation of the historic building Casa Gănescu[36] 18 March 2013
Dorin Dăneșan (Mayor of Sighișoara) Dăneșan signed a lease contract given by the City Hall to a company owned by the mayor's brother.[37] 14 March 2013
Adrian Năstase (Prime Minister of Romania) 2004 using a state-funded conference as a front to raise money for his presidential campaign[38] 20 June 2012
Gheorghe Medințu (Vice-President of PSD Arad) Medințu was involved in a scandal involving the bribing of Ilie Stana in order to illegally obtain loans worth 2000 billion old lei. Medințu was given a 7-year prison sentence.[39] 23 April 2012
Cătălin Voicu (Senator/Member of Parliament)
Marius Locic (Businessman)
Costel Cășuneanu (Businessman)
Florin Costiniu (Judge)
2009 the businessmen gave bribes to Voicu in order to solve, with the help of Judge Costiniu, their commercial and penal offenses[40] 22 April 2012
Virgil Pop (Member of Parliament) Pop received bribes (30,000-€50,000) in exchange of contracts with Transelectrica Cluj.[41] 18 April 2012
Decebal Traian Remeș (Minister of Agriculture)
Ioan Avram Mureşan (former Minister of Agriculture)
2007 Remeș received from businessman Gheorghe Ciorbă €15,000, an Audi Q7 and various products in exchange for winning public contracts[42] 14 February 2012
Eugen Bădălan (Member of Parliament, Army General, former Chief of General Staff) 2000 signed various deals with a private company, Tofan Grup SA, causing a damage of 1.26 million € to the Army[43] 7 December 2011
Dan Ilie Morega (Member of Parliament) 2008 Morega requested bribes from public companies for the National Liberal Party electoral campaign in exchange for preserving political support for their directors.[44] 11 November 2011
Cosmin Mihai Popescu (Member of Parliament)
Ionel Manțog (director of Turceni Power Station)
buying land that was then expropriated as eminent domain at high prices.[45]| 11 April 2011
Vasile Emilian Cutean (Secretary of State for Revolutionary-related Issues) 2004 embezzlement of state funds, which were paid into the accounts of an association of which he was the president[46] 4 April 2011
Mihail Sirețeanu (Member of Parliament) 2003-2004 Sirețeanu defrauded the state-owned Mizil Arms Factory of 6 billion old lei.[47] 9 February 2011
Vasile Duță (Senator) 2000-2004 Duță received money and goods (including a Mercedes worth €40,000) in exchange for influencing the decisions of various state bodies.[48] 5 May 2010
Mircia Gutău (Mayor of Râmnicu Vâlcea) 2006 Gutău requested a bribe of €50,000 from the owner of a local company, Rovimet, in exchange for an urban planning certificate, being caught in flagrante delicto[49] 17 March 2010
Cristian Anghel (Mayor of Baia Mare) Anghel decided that the Baia Mare City Hall buy a building at an overvalued price (the damage being estimated at €394,500), the same building being bought for one third of the price days before that.[50] 10 March 2010

Investigations resulting in convictions, appeal under way

People involved (office held/occupation) Date Details Conviction date
Dorin Cocoș (Businessman)
Gabriel Sandu (Minister of Communications between 2008 and 2010)
Gheorghe Ștefan (former Mayor of Piatra Neamț)
Nicolae Dumitru (Businessman)
20082010 Microsoft licensing corruption scandal: Dorin Cocoș, businessman and former spouse of Elena Udrea, was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for influence peddling and money laundering, and to an asset forfeiture of €3 million. Gabriel Sandu was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for bribery and money laundering, and to an asset forfeiture of over €2 million. Gheorghe Ștefan was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for influence peddling and to an asset forfeiture of €3 million. Nicolae Dumitru was convicted to 1 and a half years suspended sentence, €1 million forfeiture and 90 days community service.[51][52] 24 March 2016
Ilie Carabulea (Wealthy businessman; founder and former CEO of Banca Comercială Carpatica) 20122013 Sentenced to 6 and a half years imprisonment for bribery[53] 8 March 2016
Gergely Olosz (Senator, former President of the Regulatory Authority for Energy) 20102011 Sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for influence-peddling[54] 3 March 2016
Adrian Severin (Member of the European Parliament (MEP)) 2010-2011 Sentenced to 3 years and 3 months imprisonment for bribery and influence-peddling[55] 23 February 2016
Mircea Băsescu (Businessman) 2011[56]2016 Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for influence-peddling by taking bribes from a Roma clan in return for promising to secure the early release of the clan's convicted boss, Sandu Anghel aka Bercea Mondialu'.[57] Mircea Băsescu is the younger brother of Traian Băsescu, the former president of Romania, as well as the godfather of Sandu Anghel's granddaughter.[58] 8 January 2016
Nicușor Constantinescu (President of the Constanța County Council) Sentenced to 3 and a half years imprisonment for abuse of power in a case related to the underfunding of the Zonal Military Center in Constanța[59] 28 October 2015
Gheorghe Costin (Member of Parliament; Deputy Mayor of Beiuș) 2008 Convicted for fraud, false declarations and abuse of power. He provided preferential treatment in tenders for the company, Top Construct Group, whilst he was Deputy Mayor of Beiuș. Furthermore, he signed off on payments towards the company for false activities and works.[60] 7 May 2015
Veronica Cîrstoiu (Judge at the Bucharest Court of Appeal) 2012 Convicted for receiving a bribe of over €1,000,000 and using her influence to reach a favourable judgement for a defendant in a criminal case.[61] 26 March 2015
Mircia Muntean (Mayor of Deva, Member of Parliament) 1999 Muntean, as mayor, performed a land exchange with Iosif Man, through which the City Hall lost an estimated $360,000.[62] 18 July 2013
Gabriel Boriga (Mayor of Târgoviște) buying playgrounds equipment from his godson's company at a price estimated to be €100,000 higher than the market prices for that particular product.[63] 30 April 2013

International scandals

See also

References

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