The mayor of Sinaia, Vlad Oprea, returns to the town hall, after the prosecutor delayed asking for the extension of house arrest
Vlad Oprea. Photo: Inquam Photos / George Călin
The mayor of the Sinaia resort, Vlad Oprea, announced that he is returning to the management of the institution as of Monday, given that he escaped house arrest due to a DNA error.
The prosecutor in charge of Vlad Oprea's file delayed by one day the submission of the request for the extension of the preventive measure and the Bucharest Court rejected the request, according to TVR Info.
Sources from DNA confirmed the mistake to G4Media, but claimed that Oprea could only serve one more month of house arrest because the maximum period of preventive arrest, of 6 months, was nearing the end.
Because of this error, Oprea no longer has any prohibition, not even the one to exercise his function, and the DNA can no longer demand or impose preventive measures against the mayor, who is being prosecuted for taking bribes in a continuous form, as well as other corruption crimes.
“Dear friends, since Monday, I am returning to the City Hall. With the same energy, the same respect for people and the same desire to carry forward the projects started for Sinaia. I have seen in recent months enough attempts to block, postpone and distort everything we have built together. All this combined with a lot of incompetence. The truth is simple, the city needs people who work, not those who make political calculations behind the community's back or have only interests personal”, Oprea wrote on Facebook on Saturday.
Edulill thanked all those who remained close to him and who “understood that the good of the city of Sinaia cannot be put on hold”. Also, Oprea promised to return “to work with seriousness, transparency and trust”.
Oprea was initially placed under judicial control for three months, but the measure was changed to preventive detention after he was caught meeting twice with the deputy mayor, thus violating the conditions imposed by the investigators.
After two months of preventive arrest, he was placed under house arrest, where he stayed for another three months.
