Romanian Court Sentences Ex-RADET Head Gheorghe Dabela To Six Yrs In Prison For Corruption
The Court’s decision, however, can be appealed at the Supreme Court.
Dabela was charged with taking bribe of over one million euros for a contract stipulating refurbishment works at RADET.
The court also sentenced Valentin Carali, former high-ranking officer with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), to four years and six months in prison in the same file, alongside Marian Fatu, who was sentenced to five years in prison and two years of suspended rights, while Mihai Cucui, former technical manager with RADET, was sentenced to six years in prison.
The court also sentenced Ion Fatu, former general manager within the country’s former Ministry of Industries and Resources, and Eduard Valentin Pelengica to six years in prison, while Liana Uzunov, former sales manager with RADET, was sentenced to four years in prison.
Furthermore, the court compelled Carali, Marian Fatu, Dabela, Cucui, Uzunov, Ion Fatu and Uzunov to pay trial costs of 2,500 lei (EUR1=RON4.1892).
Anticorruption prosecutors established that during 1998 – 2002, several RADET officials and middlemen allegedly demanded and accepted, more than once, from the representatives of German company Preussag Rohrsanierung GmbH, money and assets worth over half a million German marks, via bank transfers or in cash, for the lease of the economic contract and for further constant payments in this respect.
According to prosecutors, Dabela allegedly took bribe of EUR100,000, and the remaining sum up to EUR500,000 was shared between his seven accomplices.
Preussag Rohrsaneriung GmbH officials signed with RADET, early 1999, a contract worth DEM22 million to refurbish 25 kilometers of heat pipes, unfolded by the German company via its subsidiary in Bucharest.