Bogdan Olteanu, definitively sentenced to 5 years in prison for a chain of one million euros. The former deputy will be jailed

The Bucharest Court of Appeal on Thursday, October 29, sentenced former NLP leader Bogdan Olteanu, former president of the Chamber of Deputies, to 5 years in prison in the case in which he was accused by DNA of receiving 1 million from businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu euros and electoral support consisting of marketing and consulting services, in exchange for the interventions of the then prime minister, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, for the appointment of Liviu Mihaiu as governor of the Danube Delta. The decision is final.

Initially, the Bucharest Court had sentenced him to 7 years in prison with execution, but the Bucharest Court of Appeal reduced the sentence.

Bogdan Olteanu turns 49 on Thursday. The Bucharest Court of Appeal also deducted from the main sentence of 5 years in prison applied to Olteanu the period of detention, preventive detention and house arrest, from July 29, 2016 to October 20, 2016, inclusive, according to the judicial portal .

DNA loads

Bogdan Olteanu was sent to court on October 18, 2016, for influence peddling, accused that in 2008, when he was president of the Chamber of Deputies, he received from businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu one million euros and electoral support consisting of services. marketing and consulting, in exchange for the interventions of the then prime minister, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, for the appointment of Liviu Mihaiu as governor of the Danube Delta.

Sorin Ovidiu Vintu’s money would have reached Bogdan Olteanu through an intermediary, being delivered to his NLP office, prosecutors said in the indictment. The money transfer requested by Bogdan Olteanu was allegedly made from a bank account opened in Cyprus and another in Bulgaria, opened by a company registered in Delaware, United States. From the Bulgarian account, the money was withdrawn in cash in three tranches, from October 28 to 30, 2008, prosecutors also established.

Grounds of the General Court

In the file there is unquestionable evidence – witness statements, financial investigation report, bank documents, telephone and environmental wiretaps – proving the guilt of the former head of the Chamber of Deputies, Bogdan Olteanu.

The large amount he received, one million euros and electoral support, to appoint Liviu Mihaiu as governor of the “Danube Delta” Biosphere Reserve, depending on an important responsibility, denotes a concrete social danger of the fact. huge.

Thus, we could summarize the motivation of Judge Georgiana Iorguta, of the Bucharest Court, who decided, on December 24, 2019, to sentence Bogdan Olteanu to 7 years in prison, the maximum provided by law for the crime for which he was tried, human trafficking. influence. This is the motivation of the first instance.

“The court considers that from the evidence provided in the case, the conclusion that the defendant Olteanu Bogdan committed the acts charged with no doubt emerges,” concludes the magistrate.

The court also decided to confiscate a million euros from Olteanu, the amount that would represent the object of influence peddling and that he would have received from Sorin Ovidiu Vintu to appoint Liviu Mihaiu as governor.

In law, the deed of the accused Bogdan Olteanu to request and receive from Vintu Sorin Ovidiu, between July and November 2008, one million euros and electoral support consisting of marketing and consulting services in exchange for negotiations with Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu for the determination of the appointment of Liviu Mihaiu to the post of governor of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, he complies with the constituent elements of the crime of influence peddling ”, the court motivates.

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