The general director of the ANPC argues that the facts invoked by the DNA “exist, but they are not provided by the criminal law”. First statements after being under judicial control

Paul Anghel, General Manager of the General Directorate of Market Control and Supervision within the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), was placed under judicial control for 60 days of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), which accuses him of committing the blackmail crime.

Specifically, the prosecutors claim that he, with the support of another person in the institution, has exercised “acts of moral constraint, through threats, intimidation and pressures” on a deputy chief of consumers Caraș-Severin “to give up the position held and remain in the leave for raising the child”.

According to DNA, the head of ANPC, Sebastian Ioan Hotca, at the instigation of a Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economy, ordered the temporary move of the person concerned from the respective management position on a position of head of service within the ANPC, “in completely different purposes than the interest of the institution, respectively for the satisfaction of individual, private,”.

The file was also under judicial control and Sebastian Ioan Hotca.

How Paul Anghel defends

During statements transmitted by his lawyer, Paul Anghel argues that “the facts to which the prosecutors refer essentially exist, but they are not provided by the criminal law”.

“The mystification of the fact that a dialogue with a colleague you have known for 10 years and guides him to challenge the movement order and repeat this thing at least 6-7 times and you are given the contest to help him cannot constitute the blackmail,” said the general manager of the ANPC.

He argues that the colleague “supported and supported her from the beginning of her career”

“Thus, repeatedly even in the stenograms presented by the prosecutors, I told her and not as general director, but as a friend, exactly as she also shows from stenograms, that if the decision is to challenge the order that I could not issue anyway and I had no connection with him, I will help her,” I will help her.

Paul Anghel challenges the measure of judicial control

The official suggested that he did not know the Secretary of State detained in the file.

“I also mention that no moment in my activity I had tangenis with the criminal activity, and the fact that the file gets a political connotation is not related to my person, the undersigned never being political and I was not actively involved in political activities. indirectly, ”continued Paul Anghel.

He stated that he will challenge the measure of judicial control, “considering it an abusive measure and in the clear purpose of removing me from the function from which to do justice for consumers I disturbed certain commercial interests.”

“The more it appears to be at least mystifying the information that political persons would have made pressure on me to intervene for a person I do not know, as well as the political people they talk about,” said Paul Anghel.