In one of the cases tried, judge Moroșanu rejected the computer searches of the DNA regarding the conversations between Coldea and the Chinese businessman from the Shanghai business
Raluca Moroșanu during the press conference of the Bucharest Court of Appeal on December 11, 2025. Inquam Photos / Gyozo / Baghiu
A track followed by DNA, which could no longer end up in the file, were the conversations between Florian Coldea and the Chinese Wang Yan, who had lost his Romanian citizenship after the SRI considered him a danger to Romania's national security. “The interference with suspect Wang Yan's right to private life would be excessive, and the aspects indicated by the prosecutor can be proven with other means of evidence,” argued the judge.
Judge Raluca Moroșanu was the judge of rights and freedoms in a case in which Florian Coldea, former SRI first deputy who was accused of committing the crimes of forming an organized criminal group, influence peddling and money laundering, was being investigated, writes the Gândul website.
The prosecutors asked the court, in June 2025, to approve computer searches in the case of two people, Mihai Guțanu, Coldea's whistleblower, and the Chinese businessman Wang Yan, who was also involved in the Shanghai case.
Judge Raluca Moroșanu admitted the computer search in the case of the suspect Mihai Guțanu, but rejected that of Wang Yan, considering it “unfounded”.
DISCLOSURES. Wang Yan, the Chinese citizen questioned by the DNA in the Coldea case, appears in a case of trafficking minors in which 10 police officers, SRI officers and ANAF inspectors protected the Chinese mafia in Bucharest, but were escaped by prosecutors
“Interference with the person's right to private life”
In the document cited by Gândul, in which she gives reasons for her decision, the judge says that “the crime for which further criminal prosecution was ordered, that of perjury (…) does not justify, concretely, the occurrence of such interference in the person's right to private life.
Wang Yan was interviewed by DNA, after businessman Cătălin Hideg, the whistleblower in the Coldea-Dumbravă file, said that Yan put him in touch with Coldea.
According to prosecutors, Wang Yan made several “manifestly untrue” statements. The Chinese businessman then made his phones available, and DNA discovered that Florian Coldea was saved under another name – “Sorin Georgescu”.
Asked about the messages sent by the prosecutors, Yan said that “he does not remember what the message to Sorin Georgescu was referring to – having the content “he met with Dumitru”, he does not remember the conversations with Sorin Georgescu (the defendant Florian Coldea) regarding the contact details of the lawyer Rareș Dan, his quality, the trip to Călugăreni, to the residence of the witness Cătălin Hideg”, the document reads.
“Part of the aspects do not seem to be related to the custom of the case”
In her decision, judge Raluca Moroșanu argued that “a large part of the aspects regarding which it is claimed that the witness was a liar are not related to the subject of the case, but concern alleged relationships between Wang Yan and the said Coldea Florian or commercial companies, the names of several people who do not seem to be related to the subject of the case being mentioned.”
“Furthermore, to the extent that these alleged business relationships are relevant in the case, the prosecutor has the opportunity to use them and prove them with other means of evidence – documents, witnesses, and not by searching the cell phones of the suspect Wang Yan. Also, the other aspects indicated by the prosecutor can be means of evidence.”
In conclusion, the judge of rights and freedoms Raluca Moroșanu appreciates that by approving the computer searches “the interference with the suspect Wang Yan's right to private life would be excessive, and the aspects indicated by the prosecutor can be proven with other means of evidence, the search of the suspect's mobile phones not being necessary”.
