Constanta Mayor Wins Trial Against Romanian Anticorruption Department

Mazare requested the court to compel DNA to provide more information regarding the professional qualification and competence of Catalin Cucoara and Gheorghe Macovei, the two employees of the Experts Division within DNA.

Mazare mentioned in his request that he is prosecuted in a file targeting the retrocession of certain buildings abusively seized between 1945 and 1989, which allegedly caused damages worth EUR100 million.

According to Mazare, the file is based on the technical expertise drafted by the two experts with a rather questionable past and no competence whatsoever to issue such documents.

Thus, the Court compelled DNA to provide more information regarding the professional qualification of the two experts and to pay 1,500 lei (EUR1-RON3.6475) in legal costs and RON5,000 in moral damages to Mazare.