PSD deputy, sent to court by the DNA after he far exceeded the speed limit on the highway and then told the police that he was not the driver

PSD deputy from Cluj Iulian Răzvan Ciortea was sent to court by the National Anticorruption Directorate, which accuses him of falsely declaring to the police that someone else was driving the vehicle, even though he was behind the wheel of a car that exceeded the legal speed by 64 km/h.

Ciortea, now a deputy, was at that time – August 2023 – a sub-prefect within the Cluj County Prefecture. According to the DNA, he is accused of improper participation, in the form of instigation, to abuse of office, if the public official obtained an undue benefit for himself or another, improper participation, in the form of instigation, instigation of intellectual forgery and false statements.

• A week ago, the investigative website Snoop wrote that Ciortea drives a BMW XM car, which is not declared, because it belongs to a medical device company in Cluj, and the politician's wife drives a BMX X5, a car that is also not declared because it is owned by her mother-in-law's company. The money in the accounts, in turn, is more than the money earned because it comes from a donation, the deputy explained to the investigative website

What the DNA says that deputy Ciortea did:

“On August 8, 2023, police officers from the Râmnicu Vâlcea – Deva Highway 1 Police Bureau detected a Mercedes car in traffic, registered in the name of a commercial company, while it was traveling on the A10 highway at a speed of 164 km/h, on a section with a 100 km/h limit, exceeding the legal speed by 64 km/h, a violation filmed and noted by radar.

Later, on September 25, 2023, in an address sent to the mentioned police structure, Ciortea Răzvan Iulian allegedly mentioned that another person was behind the wheel of the car that committed the violation, a circumstance attested in the record of finding and sanctioning the contravention drawn up by the police, although in reality the car had been driven by the defendant.

Thus, he would have obtained an undue benefit consisting in the non-taking, by the police bodies, of legal measures against the defendant (author of the contravention).”

Since Ciortea is a parliamentarian, the file was sent for trial to the High Court of Cassation and Justice.