DNA says that Dragoș Anastasiu was a “whistlebrate” in the file of the bribe at ANAF, “which is why the prosecutors ordered” towards him / Deputy Prime Minister claimed that he was only “witness, not a denunator”, as well as the Government, in the official position.

The National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) said in a response to G4Media that Dragoș Anastasiu and Cristian Băciucu “had the capacity of denunciation” in the criminal case that concerned the official ANAF Angela Burlacu.

“In the file to which you refer, the two persons mentioned in the request had the capacity of witnesses, which is why at the issuance of the indictment on May 17, 2018, the anti -corruption prosecutors ordered them against them under Art.

G4Media says he asked the DNA what quality of the representatives of Touring Eurolines SA, Cristian Băciucu and Dragoș Michael Anastasiu, in the criminal file regarding Angela Burlacu, which solution was ordered to the company representatives and why this solution was ordered.

For eight years, during the period 2009-2017, the companies of Deputy Prime Minister Dragoș Anastasiu bribed an ANAF inspector in order not to have problems with controls, according to a DNA investigation, completed two years ago with a definitive sentence of the operation.

Anastasiu acknowledged the bribe of ANAF employee both in front of DNA and judges. Neither he nor his employees were charged because his business partner has filed the DNA.

Anastasiu and the government spokesman said he was just a “witness” in the file

Reacting on Friday on Facebook to the information published in the public space, Deputy Prime Minister Dragoș Anastasiu said that he was “witness, not a denouncer”.

“In the file I was a witness, not a denouncer. There was no action against me, I had no legal advantage, and in the file other companies that were in the same situation were involved. I never had any criminal conviction,” Anastasiu wrote on Friday.

Also on Friday, in a group of communication with the press, the government spokesman said that “Deputy Prime Minister Dragoș Anastasiu had no denouncer, accused, defendant, convicted in the DNA file”, as well as “his only quality was that of witness”.

“Deputy Prime Minister Dragoș Anastasiu did not have the capacity of denouncer, accused, defendant, convicted in the DNA file solved by the decision 1258/2023. His only quality was that of the witness. He was heard in this capacity of prosecutors and judges who did not consider that the conditions for the change of this unique qualities were met. Ioana Dogioiu.

Dogioiu said about the “circumstances of the case” that “they have nothing to do with the quality of deputy prime minister and to the duties of Mr. Dragoș Anastasiu”.

“Not a warrant witness, but a witness”

In an intervention on B1 throughout the day, the government spokesman said again that in the file of the anti-corruption prosecutors Anastasiu “had only the quality of witness, I repeat, not a denouncer, but a witness”.

“Mr. Anastasiu was not a denouncer in this case, he was only a witness. He was a denouncer. It is a fundamental clarification, because everything I want to tell you about this case, in whose details I do not go on the television and in the press, the justice was already made, there is no case, Company, but witness.