Elena Udrea: I sit and think why, God forgive me, I did not take that money home, if there were still so many

Udrea made journalists ironic that if there had been so much money he would have been able to take it home and “maybe today he had no files.”

She made these statements at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, where Udrea is being tried in the “Hidroelectrica” ​​case.

“So not even the prosecutors say that I took money. Even the prosecutors say that this is how the whistleblower Topoliceanu says that money went to the party and was spent on the campaign for local elections in which I did not run. .and I wonder why, God forgive me, I did not take that money home, if there were still so many, I might not have files today.

So not even the prosecutors claim that money was taken, that I would have taken money from the amount that came to the party and of which not even the prosecutor can say how much it was.

The truth is that we are talking about the financing of a campaign in which I did not participate, financing that at that time was done by a businessman who sponsored absolutely all the parties in a way that at that time sponsored parties and electoral campaigns.“- Elena Udrea declared about the financing file of the 2009 electoral campaign.

Elena Udrea was sentenced to eight years in prison in the case concerning the financing of the electoral campaign of Traian Băsescu in the presidential elections of 2009.

After the conviction, DNA requested that Udrea be placed under judicial control, with a ban on leaving the country, given her statements, but also the possibility of her leaving Romania before being definitively sentenced, as happened in 2018, when he fled. To Costa Rica.

However, the court rejected DNA’s request.

In the same case, the eldest daughter of the former president, Ioana Băsescu, was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Both sentences are executable, but in the first instance.

Magistrates of the Court of Appeals found them guilty of corruption, related to the financing of the campaign for the presidential elections, but also for the 2009 referendum.