Romania’s Pwr Plant Turceni Ex-GM Arrested For Abuse Of Office

Former general manager of Romanian state-run thermal power producer Turceni, Dumitru Cristea, was preventively arrested on Wednesday evening for 29 days, for abuse of office, according to a mandate issued by the courthouse in the country’s southern town of Targu Jiu.

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Cristea has the right to appeal the courthouse decision.

On Monday morning, Cristea resigned from his position in the plant.

Last Tuesday, he was detained for 24 hours, alongside with other managers in the company for abuse of office, according to the decision of the anticorruption prosecutors in Targu Jiu.

One day later, the courthouse rejected the prosecutors’ preventive arrest proposal and decided to release Cristea, after his lawyers accused the anticorruption prosecutors of not observing the legal procedures and their client’s rights.

On Friday, the Gorj courthouse admitted the prosecutors’ appeal, so that the court in Targu Jiu retried Wednesday the prosecutors’ preventive arrest request in Cristea file.

Mid-November, the anti-corruption prosecutors put under distraint part of Dumitru Cristea’s wealth.

Cristea is currently investigated for abuse of office, next to other directors with Turceni power plant.

They are under investigations for having allegedly bought, from a Medias-based company, equipments at over-evaluated prices, causing a prejudice of 800,000 lei (EUR1=RON3.8131).

The name of general manager in Turceni has been recently mentioned after his wife specified in her wealth statement that Cristea received in June an annual bonus of RON149,000.

Narcisa Cristea, the economic manager of Targu Jiu City Hall in south Romania, wrote end-October in her wealth statement that Dumitru Cristea has obtained net salaries of around RON124,000 between June 2007, when he was appointed the general manager of Turceni power plant, and June 2008.

Narcisa Cristea’s statement also mentions several lands and buildings bought, leased or inherited, several bank deposits totaling RON465,000 and EUR15,000, together with four agricultural lands and three inside-city lands in Targu Jiu town.

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