BREAKING Robert Negoiță can resume his term as mayor and escape the bail of 800,000 lei. The court's decision on the case in which he is accused of building roads over gas mains
Robert Negoiță Photo: Inquam Photos / Malina Norocea
Robert Negoiță can return to head the Sector 3 City Hall a week after DNA prosecutors forbade him to approach the institution's headquarters and exercise his duties as mayor, Digi24, Antena 3 CNN and Agerpres announce. Today's decision of the Bucharest Court is final.
Robert Negoiță has been replaced at the Sector 3 mayor's office until now by PSD vice-mayor Adrian Cocoș, considered to be close to him.
Through Thursday's decision, Negoiță no longer has to pay the bail of 800,000 lei.
“In File 4235/3/2026, the complaint filed by the defendant NRS against ordinance no. 237/2/P/2025 of February 5, 2026 of the DNA was admitted and, consequently, the measure of judicial control on bail was revoked. The solution is final,” the Court decided.
TRANSCRIPTS from the DNA file: Discussions between employees of the Sector 3 City Hall about the danger of building streets over gas pipelines / Robert Negoiță, warned: “You are rumbling between neighborhoods”
Robert Negoiță was placed under judicial control last week
The mayor of Sector 3 was placed under judicial control on February 5, by the anti-corruption prosecutors, being also obliged to pay a bail of 800,000 lei. He announced that he would not pay bail.
Negoiță is suspended from his position and is not allowed to approach the institution's headquarters. His duties were taken over during the suspension by the PSD vice-mayor Adrian Cocoș.
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The DNA accusations against Robert Negoiță
According to DNA prosecutors, Negoiță illegally ordered construction and paving works on 12 streets, including on land owned by his brother's company, as the Recorder revealed last year.
Recorder journalists wrote that 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.
The works were also done over gas pipes, and thus “would have generated a significant risk for the safety of the residents of those areas”.
According to transcripts in the file, Negoiță was warned by city hall officials about the danger posed by the construction of roads over gas pipes. “There is no such thing,” replied the suspended mayor, when he was asked by journalists when leaving the police station.
