Romanian Businessman To Sue Former Associate Over Embezzlement

Romanian-French businessman Sever Muresan on Sunday said he intends to sue his former associate, Swiss national Peter Rolf Gemrig, for embezzlement of assets from one his companies.

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Muresan said the Swiss financer faked very large debts at a banking company in order to embezzle assets worth $15 million.

“We have the documents to prove it and we will file legal complaints against Gemrig in Switzerland, France and Romania, because Diskont (Diskont und Effekten, one of Muresan’s company that Gemrig allegedly used to embezzle assets – e.n.) owned a branch in Romania as well, from where the money was transferred,” Muresan said.

Muresan, who was acquitted of money laundering charges in France, returned to Romania on Saturday after spending eleven months in prison.

French police arrested Muresan in March last year on charges of money laundering and a failed plot to kill Gemrig.

In February, the Lyon Court of Appeals cleared Muresan from paying taxes to the French government for the years 1994 and 1995, repealing the decision of the Dijon Court, and ruled that Muresan is to receive damages worth EUR4,000.

Muresan was the former vice president of now bankrupt Dacia Felix bank in Romania. In 1997, he was accused with other former officials of siphoning millions of dollars from the bank for business ventures in western Europe. He was sentenced by a Swiss court in 2000 to three years in prison on that charge.

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