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Prime Minister Ludovic Orban officially announced on Wednesday that the capital’s prefect, Gheorghe Cojanu, will be removed from office, and former police commissioner Traian Berbeceanu is among the “possible candidates.” We remind you that the prefect of the Capital is the protagonist of a whole series of stuttering, after Bucharest surpassed the contagion rate of 3 cases per thousand inhabitants on Sunday.
Orban said on Wednesday that he could not announce on Monday, when asked by journalists, that he would replace the prefect of the capital, because an important meeting was coming, that of the Committee on Emergency Situations in Bucharest, in which the measures were ordered later. that the Capital exceeded, on Sunday, the rate of 3 per thousand inhabitants.
“Yes, we made the decision to change the prefect. On Thursday we will operate this change. Yes, Traian Berbeceanu is among the possible candidates,” Orban said.
He said of Traian Berbeceanu that he is a “man of integrity and determination.”
The appointment of the prefect is made by decision of the government and on Thursday a meeting of the Executive will be held.
Former Police Commissioner Traian Berbeceanu, current chief of staff for Interior Minister Marcel Vela, was hired on Tuesday as an official in the NLP group of deputies, political sources told News.ro. The appointment of the former Police Commissioner as an official of the NLP group of the Chamber of Deputies solves the problem that he was not part of the body of officials, a requirement to be appointed prefect of the Capital.
We remind you that the prefect of the Capital is the protagonist of a whole series of stuttering, after Bucharest surpassed the contagion rate of 3 cases per thousand inhabitants on Sunday.
The contagion rate exceeded 3 on Sunday, the data being transmitted by the Strategic Communication Group in the information at 1:00 p.m. At 11:00 p.m., the prefect told Digi 24 that he did not know how many new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the Capital because he was shopping and did not receive them by email from DSP.
“I did not have the number of diseases, I was shopping. Colonel Precup from ISU notified me that it is 3.02 and that we have to meet in the prefecture. I introduced myself. His colleague said there are more than 500 I did not have this information, the only thing What I knew was the total number of infections in the last 14 days, at the time they informed me I had not received the bulletin. “Cojanu said Sunday night.
President Klaus Iohannis said Monday that the attitude of the prefect of the Capital and the way he reacted in the context of the increasing number of cases per thousand inhabitants in Bucharest are unacceptable and should not be left without consequences.
Who is Traian Berbeceanu?
In December 2019, Traian Berbeceanu was appointed Chief of Staff to Interior Minister Marcel Vela.
Traian Bereceanu was head of the Alba Organized Crime Squad between 2005 and 2013, when he had to leave after a DIICOT investigation. He was detained from October 24 to November 26, 2013, accused of supporting a group suspected of tax evasion with petroleum products, with damage of more than 3.5 million lei.
Berbeceanu was acquitted in 2016, in the first instance, being found not guilty of bribery, support for an organized criminal group, money laundering, false statements, false private signature, complicity in embezzlement, facts of which DIICOT prosecutors are charged in 2013.
Traian Berbeceanu was sent to trial in July 2014, being accused by the DIICOT that, during 2011, as a judicial policeman and as head of the Alba Organized Crime Brigade, he supported the criminal group organized from the Gheorghe Rusu, Dorin Cupetiu and other people were part of it. Therefore, he was accused of having received a VW Passat CC Trav car from Gheorghe and Anca Rusu. 2.0 TDI, for an approximate amount of 20,000 euros, in exchange for providing data and information about your investigation or that of SC Uranus Junior 2003 SRL or other persons from the same criminal group in criminal cases or in relation to records. domiciliary.
On November 6, 2019, the trial in which the former head of the Organized Crime Brigade Alba Traian Berbeceanu is tried in Chamber 5 of the Supreme Court was suspended. The decision was made under the conditions in which the Superior Court of Cassation and Justice decided to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) four questions related to the application of the decision of the Constitutional Court in specialized panels of 3 judges.
