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Prosecutors from the General Prosecutor’s Office reached a plea agreement with pro-Romanian deputy Mihai Valentin Popa, caught driving drunk in November 2019, according to Agerpres, the parliamentarian agreed to pay a criminal fine of 40,000 lei.
However, the agreement between the prosecutors and the deputy must be approved by the judges of the Superior Court of Cassation and Justice.
In the plea agreement sent to the court, prosecutors noted that, on the night of November 28, 2019, Deputy Mihai Valentin Popa was driving a car on public roads while under the influence of alcohol. Through the toxicological analysis carried out, an alcohol level of 1.25 g / l was established.
“After the conclusion of the guilty agreement, in accordance with art. 336 para. 1 Penal Code of rap. Art. 480 para. 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the accused will be sentenced to a fine of 40,000 lei, corresponding to a fine of 160 days with a fine of one day – a fine of 250 lei. In the presence of the chosen lawyer, the defendant declared that he acknowledges the commission of the deed withheld from its assignment and accepts the legal qualification that is given to the deed ”Is reflected in a statement from the Attorney General’s Office.
Mihai Valentin Popa was elected in 2016 deputy from Brasov on the PSD lists, and moved to Pro Romania in June 2019.
He was also involved in a case in which he was sued by the DNA for committing the crime of blackmail. The deputy was accused of intervening before a mayor and the manager of a hospital in Brasov in order not to revoke his protégé from a managerial position at the hospital, but was ultimately acquitted by the Supreme Court in November 2020.
Publisher: Liviu Cojan
