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Bucharest Court Of Appeals Suspends Privatizations Trial

The Bucharest Court of Appeal on Wednesday suspended the trial regarding the privatization of several strategic industrial assets in which former counselors Dorinel Mucea and Mihai Donciu, as well as international consultant Stamen Stanchev were charged with treason.
Bucharest Court Of Appeals Suspends Privatizations Trial
20 mart. 2008, 10:28, English

The court heard on Wednesday former minister counselors Dorinel Mucea and Mihai Donciu as well as Bulgarian businessman Stamen Stanchev, charged with treason.

The lawyers of the three culprits raised certain unconstitutionality exceptions regarding the Law on national safety and the Bucharest Court of Appeals ruled to suspend the trial.
 
On Monday, the Court decided Stanchev, detained in Romania on corruption charges, is free to leave the country.
 
The privatizations trial started on April 20, 2007. In the same month Stanchev, Mucea and Donciu were sent to trial on charges of treason.  
 
Prosecutors considered Stanchev was the brains behind an industrial espionage network, whose goal was to obtain key documentation pertaining to the privatization of strategic industrial assets in order to win consultancy contracts.
 
Among the dignitaries investigated in the case are former economy minister Codrut Seres and former minister of communications Zsolt Nagy. In 2005, the country’s intelligence service tapped the phone calls between Stanchev and Seres and looked into the arrangements regarding privatizations of Romania’s power distributor Electrica Muntenia, hydropower generator Hidroelectrica, airliners Romaero, Avioane Craiova, telecom operator Romtelecom and post office Posta Romana. Nagy was accused of treason and giving away state secrets.