Robert Negoiță, prohibition to exercise his mandate as mayor and judicial control, after 6 hours of hearings / What bail did the prosecutors set / The only statement given when leaving the DNA / The accusations brought against him
Robert Negoiță was placed under judicial control by the anti-corruption prosecutors. The investigators set him a bail of 800,000 lei, at the end of several hours of hearings held at the DNA headquarters, judicial sources told HotNews on Thursday evening.
In addition to the two legal measures, Negoiță also received from the prosecutors the prohibition to exercise his mandate as mayor during the period of judicial control, according to sources cited by Agerpres and G4Media.
The mayor of Sector 3 is targeted in a case of abuse of office, in which DNA prosecutors conducted several searches on Thursday morning, including at his home, judicial sources previously told HotNews. Among the facts of which the mayor is accused is the construction of a road for his brother, a real estate developer, about which the Recorder reported.
According to the Recorder journalists, Robert Negoiță used City Hall resources to build a road on the private land owned by his brother, Ionuț Negoiță, “laying down” an asphalt carpet in the very place where he was going to build several blocks and a shopping center.
After the morning searches, Robert Negoiță organized a press conference at the City Hall headquarters, in which context he claimed that he did not build anything with public money for his brother, but admitted that, in the case of a road built on private property, the legal option was to first do the urban planning documentation, expropriation and then build.
Later, the mayor was brought, during the day, to the headquarters of the National Anticorruption Directorate for hearings. After almost six hours, he left the DNA headquarters, stating that he does not consider himself guilty.
Prohibition regarding the exercise of the mayoral mandate
Apart from the judicial control and the bail of 800,000 lei, Robert Negoiță was also banned from exercising his mandate as mayor, according to sources cited by Agerpres and G4Media.ro.
Thus, the DNA prosecutors decided to prohibit Robert Negoiță from exercising the position of mayor of Sector 3 during the period of judicial control.
The only statement given at the exit from the hearings
On leaving the DNA headquarters on Thursday evening, the mayor declared in front of the media that he does not consider himself guilty.
Robert Negoiță got into a car and left.
Asked if he considers himself guilty, the mayor of District 3 answered briefly: “No, not at all.”
The answer given by Robert Negoiţă, after the six hours of hearings at the DNA, when asked if he considers himself guilty
Judicial control, under bail
After being questioned at the DNA headquarters for almost 6 hours, the mayor of Sector 3, Robert Negoiță, received judicial control, on a bail set at 800,000 lei (approximately 160,000 euros), judicial sources told HotNews.
Robert Negoiță arrived at the DNA headquarters for hearings. He did not make statements before entering the DNA headquarters.
Robert Negoiță came out in a press conference and rejected the accusation that he built a public road for his brother. He specified that “he built public roads for Sector 3, free to be used by any citizen”. Negoiţă also accused that the representatives of the District 3 City Hall were “blocked” by the Capital City Hall from making all the necessary documents.
Robert Negoiță, the first reaction after the DNA searches: “Where we managed to find solutions, we made roads” / When I am summoned to hearings, I go without problems”
The searches at the home of Robert Negoiță
According to Hotnews sources, 11 searches are taking place: at the City Hall of Sector 3, at a company subordinate to it, as well as at the home of Robert Negoiță. He is suspected of abuse of office in connection with the manner in which several roads were built, including the road from his brother's residence, of which the Recorder wrote.
Along with Negoiță, employees of the Sector 3 City Hall are also suspected in this case, and after the searches, all the persons concerned will be taken to the DNA for questioning, the quoted sources said.
The Prefect of the Capital, about the road built by Robert Negoiță now investigated by DNA: “It was built over a gas main, without permits”
DNA's official announcement: Construction and paving of several streets without legal documents
The DNA announces, in a press release, that the investigations are aimed at suspicions regarding the commission, in the period 2017-2025, of crimes similar to those of corruption related to the illegal construction and paving of several streets.
“The facts investigated were allegedly committed by public officials, with the support of some accomplices, and concern construction and asphalting works on several streets in Sector 3 of the Bucharest municipality, which were allegedly carried out without legal documents. During the day of February 5, 2026, based on the authorizations issued by the competent court, house searches are carried out in 11 locations located within the radius of Bucharest municipality and Ilfov county, two of which are the headquarters of institutions public, and the rest are the residences of individuals or the headquarters/workplaces of commercial companies”, DNA transmitted, without naming Robert Negoiță.
The Recorder's revelations in the case of Robert Negoiță
In August 2025, Recorder journalists wrote that Robert Negoiță used the city hall's resources to build a road on the private land owned by his brother, Ionuț Negoiță.
The road of about one kilometer was built at the beginning of August, in about eight days, by the City Hall of Sector 3, behind the Laminor Hall. The main objective is to facilitate access to the area where the companies of Ionuț Negoiță, the mayor's brother, will build the HILS Republica real estate complex, according to the Recorder.
The prosecutors then started the criminal prosecution in rem for abuse of office, that is, at that time the act was being investigated, not a specific person.
According to the law, central or local authorities are not allowed to finance the construction or rehabilitation of roads on private property, as is the case where Ionuț Negoiță is building. In order for such a road to be built with public money, the law requires that the land pass into the public domain.
In a video published on Facebook announcing the construction of the new road, Negoiță claimed that the new artery was requested by the residents of the area, exasperated by the heavy traffic.
Robert Negoiță then admitted that he had built the road on his family's land with the city hall's resources, but rejected a conflict of interest.
“It's a conflict of interest in the sense that we trespassed on a property to make a public road. If you believe that we created an advantage for my brother, you have a very wrong approach,” Negoiță told the Recorder.
Asked for his part why the legal steps for the construction of the road on his company's property were not respected, the developer Ionuț Negoiță said that “some people take care of the formalities, I don't take care of it personally”.
“I was asked to create a public road, in order to make a connection between (Soseaua) Industriilor and the field”, reasoned the real estate developer.
Roads built over gas mains
Also, in October 2025, the Recorder published an investigation showing that, according to an expert report, 11 paved roads were illegally built over gas mains at the behest of Robert Negoiță.
The City Hall of Sector 3 did not have any approvals from Transgaz, which notified the City Hall from the beginning of the works, and which sued the City Hall. Currently, the litigation is before the Bucharest Court, after the 3rd District Court declined jurisdiction in this case.
A person inside the District 3 City Hall told the Recorder that Negoiță knowingly defied the warnings of specialists.
Who is Robert Negoiță
Robert Negoiță was born on March 29, 1972 in the town of Măneciu, Prahova county. He is the president of PSD Sector 3 and mayor of Sector 3 since June 10, 2012. He is currently in his 4th term as mayor, being re-elected in June 2024, with over 53% of the votes.
In the period 2004-2007, Robert Negoiță attended the courses of the Faculty of Law within the Bioterra University, and in the period 2004-2008 the courses of the Faculty of Economics of Domestic and International Tourism within the Romanian-American University, according to the biography on the website of the Sector 3 town hall.
Robert Negoiță has been involved in political life since 2004, when he became a member of PSD. In 2006 he was elected vice-president of the youth organization of PSD (TSD), in 2007 he was elected president of the League of Young Entrepreneurs Social Democrats (LTISD), and in 2008 executive secretary of the central organization of PSD. In 2010, he became vice-president of the PSD and president of the Ilfov County Organization.
In 2020, he left the PSD and founded the Bucharest 2020 Party, on behalf of which he submitted his candidacy for the local elections. On September 27, 2020, Robert Negoiță won his third term as Mayor of Sector 3. Robert Negoiță returned to PSD in April 2024.
The cases in which he was involved
Robert Negoiță was involved, over time, in several files and criminal investigations.
The “Rosal” file
In August 2022, DNA prosecutors sent Robert Negoiță to court for abuse of office with obtaining undue benefits with particularly serious consequences, instigation to abuse of office and complicity in intellectual forgery, charges related to the sanitation contract concluded between the City Hall of Sector 3 and the ROSAL Grup company.
More precisely, according to the prosecutors, the sanitation contract, initially concluded in 1999, would have been extended between 2013 and 2018 successively through additional documents, without the organization of public tenders. Moreover, the fares and frequency of the services would have been increased without the necessary legal approvals. The damage is 578 million lei for the budget of Sector 3.
The case is still pending at the Bucharest Court of Appeal and has not been finalized by a final sentence.
In February 2023, the prosecutors put him under criminal investigation in another file in which he is accused of approving, between 2015 and 2021, the illegal issuance of documents necessary for the construction of a block of flats in the center of Bucharest.
The accident at the National Library construction site
Negoiță was criminally investigated as a suspect of manslaughter in the event that two workers died after the collapse, in August 2021, of a bank of earth from the National Library, on a construction site in Sector 3. Although he was initially suspected, he is no longer among the defendants.
