Florian Coldea Inquam Photos / George Calin
The chief prosecutor of DNA, Marius Voineag, told Antena 3 CNN on Sunday that the file of the former first deputy of Florian Coldea, sent to July in an influence trafficking file, according to News.ro.
Marius Voineag was asked on Sunday, at Antena 3 CNN, if, researching the activity of Florian Coldea, he noticed that he has legally obtained money to justify a luxury living in Monaco and how much money was seized in this file. He replied:
“In this file there were insurance measures, obviously, because, in essence, the file concerned an influence traffic that generated a criminal product. I think that seizures are about 500,000 euros and 1.5 million lei for all the defendants sent by the DNA. For what accusers we made, it was the maximum limit in which we went to the DNA,”
Asked if he believes that Coldea's file will resist, the DNA chief replied “Certainly, yes”.
“I am very sure about this, because it is a file that I followed closely. It was a great public impact file, but it was a prudent file worked by the case prosecutor.
Voineag was also asked if the fate of this file will be changed after Dumitru Dumbravă's death. “No. In no way. It is a file with accusations formulated in which the DNA will stay in the back,” he said.
Dumitru Dumbravă and Florian Coldea, former first deputy of the head of the SRI and a lawyer from the Bucharest Bar were sent to court in July 2025 by the prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), in a file of influence, money laundering and the exercise of a profession or activities.
What investigators say in the indictment
“Between 2018-2020, the three defendants, taking advantage of the relational system and the influence that they would have acquired, as a result of the exercise of the functions before the retirement, respectively the influence of the third defendant, through the profession of lawyer, would have constituted an organized criminal group, profiled by the law, the law, and money laundering. The criminal activities would have been carried out until 2024, according to an criminal scheme that mainly assumed the following:
- The identification of some natural or legal persons who encountered problems in various fields, who were promised to solve, by the influence that the defendants claimed to have in the respective fields or of persons who wanted to ensure the protection of influential persons,
- The establishment by the defendants, former military, of consulting companies, through which, in relation to the notoriety enjoyed by the associates/administrators, on the one hand, to attract possible customers, and, on the other hand, to create an appearance of legality of the activity carried out,
- co -opting of law firm or lawyers who conclude legal assistance contracts with persons interested in buying influence,
- The conclusion of consulting contracts to conceal the undue benefits claimed by the defendants by exercising the influence or by hiding the illegal activity of legal consulting,
- The co-opting of some investigative companies, through which the adverse parts of the disputes in which legal consulting, their close friends, lawyers or even magistrates, are granted, because, based on the collaboration and the unequivocal consensus to join their efforts to be constituted, to undergo a group, by illicit means.“
“During the period 2020-2024, the three defendants would have participated in committing corruption offenses, the exercise without law of some legal consulting activities specific to the activity of lawyer and the money laundering, the activity of the group being punctually supported by the fourth defendant,” the anti-corruption prosecutors say.
According to the prosecutors, between March 2023-April 2024, three of the defendants (the two businessmen and the lawyer within the Bucharest Bar) claimed from a businessman (witness in question) the sum of 700,000 euros, in exchange for which he would have to believe that he would have influence on some judges from the court, and that he could determine the court, and that criminal in which he was tried.
After several negotiations, the amount that was claimed by the defendants was reduced to 600,000 euros, says DNA.
