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According to sources from Ziare.com, it would be the former PSD minister of the Victor Ponta government, Nicolae Banicioiu. Nicolae Banicioiu has been a member of the Romanian Parliament since 2004. In May 2018, he moved to the Pro Romania party, led by Victor Ponta.
“Prosecutors are conducting an investigation into suspicions of corruption in the context of the sale of medical items to public hospitals located in Bucharest and Ilfov county and under the Ministry of Health.
In accordance with the legal and constitutional provisions, the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate sent the report of the case to the attorney general of the PICCJ, in order to notify the Chamber of Deputies to formulate the request to carry out a criminal investigation against a person, deputy of the Romanian Parliament. the position of minister, for committing the crimes of: influence peddling and taking bribes on a continuous basis ”, is shown in a statement from ADN.
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What are the charges?
According to the ADN prosecutors, between December 21, 2012 and March 5, 2014, the period in which Banicioiu served as Minister of Youth and Sports, “as a minister, he would have accepted the promise of two businessmen and received directly , by one of them, the total amount of 1,292,122 lei, leaving it to be believed that it has influence over the Minister of Health and the public servants within this institution and that it will determine them to comply or not with the acts that were part of their functions, acts represented by:
– appoint as director / maintain in the position of director some heads of public hospitals subordinate to the Ministry of Health, hospitals with which the companies controlled by the two employers had entered into contracts or carried out public procurement procedures,
– The allocation of sums of money to public hospitals subordinate to the Ministry of Health, with which the companies of the two entrepreneurs had current contracts.
Later, the same person would have received from the same businessmen, through an accomplice, a suspect in the case, the total amount of 2,612,389 lei in relation to the exercise of the powers of the minister, position held during 05.03.2014-17.11.2015 “, is also shown in the ADN statement.
Banicioiu was Minister of Health, in the government of Víctor Ponta, between March 5, 2014 and November 17, 2015.
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