The Minister of Transport, Ciprian Șerban, came on Wednesday night, after Free Europe revealed that he was a denunciation in a corruption file, and before the DNA was given at least six times, in 2012, representatives of a forest bypass in Iași County. The official says that during the investigations several documents were carried out in the file, which “proved the soundness of those notified by me, including a flagrant that I agreed to do, precisely to prove the crimes committed by the representatives of the forest bypass”.
Free Europe has come into possession in possession of these video and audio recordings in the file. The records are heard how the money is counted, at the end. The publication claims that Șerban has filed the complaint only after he himself was threatened to be denounced because he did not comply with a contract won by an interposed.
“In carrying out a commercial contract, in 2012, I worked with day -to -law workers, whom, according to the law, I passed in the register for day laborers and who I paid daily, highlighting these payments in the accounting of the company. I noticed, at one point, that the representatives of the forest bypass The expenses of the site organization nor in the payment of the days, meaning that they are commissions, without explaining their destination and justification, which is why we considered to be illegal payments and I immediately notified the authorities, “says the minister, in a message published on his Facebook page, mentioning that the specifications are” for a correct information “.
“In order to have evidence and help the investigative bodies, all these discussions with the representatives of the forest bypass were registered by a representative of the company. We notified, including the Forestry Directorate about these payments and filed a complaint to the law authorities, attaching these registrations. Including a flagrant that I agreed to do, precisely to prove the crimes committed by the representatives of the forest bypass ”, adds Ciprian Șerban.
He also refers to a former Minister of Transport, Cătălin Drulă (former USR leader).
What the Minister of Transport says:
- “Later, I saw in the press that other dignitaries or politicians notified the authorities in such situations.
- The first example that comes to mind is Mr. Cătălin Drulă, Minister of Transport at that time.
- I encourage that all those who face such situations to start, because only in this way can we get rid of this scourge.“
Two Liberals tried to intervene next to Drulă. DNA has mounted supervisory technique in the minister's office
Two important liberals were registered by the DNA prosecutors in 2021 even in the office of the Minister of Transport at that time, Cătălin Drula, while asking him to keep in office the heads of the Romanian Association for the Salvation of Human Lives at sea and to the River Administration of the Lower Danube Galați, as Galati. It's about George Left, who was a senator, and Iulian Dumitrescu, who was then leading the Prahova County Council.
Dumitru Ciobanu, former SIE general in the 90s, also appears in the DNA stenograms regarding the influence traffic regarding the favor of a Turkish company participating in the auctions organized by the Ministry of Transport, according to the proposal of preventive arrest sent by the DNA prosecutors to the Constanta Court in the file that concerned the Romanian association.
In interceptions, the administrator of one of the apartment companies that intermediate the ship transactions tells the former general SIE that he is having problems with the Drulă and that “it is a problem with this man who is a dog” and for which a solution must be found.
During the criminal prosecution of that file for taking bribes, trafficking in influence and establishment of an organized criminal group, the DNA prosecutors mounted the audio-video surveillance technique including in the office of Minister Cătălin Drula and surprised more discussions.
From the dialogues it turned out that the PNL senator and Iulian Dumitrescu were more interested in the investments to be carried out by the two institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Transport.
Ciprian Șerban has given bribe at least 6 times as per the Freeder
According to the investigation published Wednesday by Free Europe, in March 2012, Ciprian Șerban presented at the Răducăneni Forestry Ocole as a representative of a company that had just won the tender for the annual planting and care works of several hectares of forest subordinated to the Ocol. The contract awarded by the Iași Forestry Directorate had a value of over 650,000 lei, and the works had to be completed in 10 months.
The winning company, Eden Star Forest SRL, was run in acts by Claudiu Ioan H., a man from Neamț county. According to Free Europe, the company was de facto controlled by Ciprian Șerban, who also the stamp, and the company card, and the address of the company is still in a home of the former father-in-law of the minister-Mircia Gorghiu, former technical director of Romsilva.
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In the file, three forestryrs were convicted, and from the court decision it appears that between the bait and the representatives of the Forestry District Răducăneni would have existed, since April 2012, an agreement that the forest works would be done “with people from the area”, coordinated by the head of district Nicolae Balint. The invoices – issued after the partial accomplishment of the works – were settled by the company controlled by Ciprian Șerban.
According to the file in justice, Ciprian Șerban promised that he would make cash from the company and give Nicolae Balint, for him to pay the workers. He did that, at least six times. Free Europe reports that it has obtained the audio recording of a conversation between Serban and Balint in April 2012, before the beginning of the works, when the current PSD Minister of Transport and the district chief set the details.
Ciprian Șerban complained to DNA in September 2012, five months after the conversation now rendered by the cited publication.
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