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The court rejected this Sunday the proposal for the preventive detention of Laurențiu Baranga, former head of the Office for Prevention and Money Laundering, taking the measure of house arrest for the next 30 days, say sources close to the case. The decision can be challenged within 48 hours. Baranga is obliged to appear before the criminal investigation body, the judge of rights and freedoms, the judge of the preliminary chamber or the court whenever it is summoned and not communicate with the representatives of the civil parties “VALAHIA” University of Târgovişte and the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine – Bucharest, directly or indirectly, in any way.
Some of the local press described him as “a very polished man spiritually, dressed softly with a gesture and a vocabulary under control”, coming “from a world of deep and discreet success”, and praised him for “succeeding, rare, both in business as in science and academia “, but lacks political aggression and” the ability to take crowd baths, to “kiss girls”, as they say “, but also” demagoguery and populism in speech. ”
It was also written about the fact that he bought the house of the former director of CEC Bank Vâlcea, Dorin Dobrişan, sentenced to prison in 2015 and released in 2019, in order to save part of the wealth obtained by him fraudulently, accepting bribes , children. the two are in a relationship.
Strungar, who became a high-ranking official, later disappeared from the local media attention when he moved to Bucharest. He also came, as a guest, to Vâlcea, to political actions, such as the elections that took place in PDL Vâlcea, in 2013. Until September of this year, he was in a shadow cone.
He came out of “anonymity” when he was appointed head of the Anti-Money Laundering Fight, when the national press, studying his clumsy resume, began to wonder how a man who had just obtained his BAC arrived. at 32 in a high-ranking position, although until 41 he did not seem to have worked anywhere.
What few people know is that before obtaining his high school diploma, which turned out to be false, Laurenţiu Baranga was a turner. He worked, according to our sources, in I3, at the Băbeni mechanical plant. The connection to the “Teleorman Diploma Factory”.
In 2009, when Baranga claimed to be a doctoral student, the “Teleorman Diploma Factory” scandal broke out. It later emerged that hundreds of people, who had reached “key positions”, had benefited from 15,000 false educational documents. Among them were famous names such as Liviu Dragnea, his ex-wife, former IPJ Teleorman MP Emil Stănimir and former PSD Teleorman prefect Adrian Florescu, but also various parliamentarians, ministers, senior officials. , mayors, policemen, etc.
Baranga admitted to the court that he finished 10 classes in 1984, and the following year he enrolled in a vocational school, night course, of a secondary school in Râmnicu Vâlcea. In 1999, he added, he enrolled at the Technical College “Dimitrie Leonida” in Bucharest for the baccalaureate exam. Instead, he said he did not remember who brought him the diploma because he did not collect it personally. It’s just that his statements didn’t match the facts. On the back of the diploma it was written that Baranga graduated from the University of Bucharest between 1994 and 1999, without attending school, but nothing was mentioned about the vocational school in Vâlcea.
With a fake BAC diploma, but also with a bachelor’s degree obtained from the “Alexandru Ghica University – Faculty of Accounting and Computer Science” in Alexandria – Teleorman (which does not appear in the CV and is suspected of being manufactured in the same way, as in the case of Dragnea), Baranga enrolled in the bachelor’s examination at the Ecological University of Bucharest (February 2008). Regarding the Teleorman faculty, Baranga affirmed that he attended its courses between 2000 and 2005, although the University had its first series of students only in 2001. Since the BAC diploma is false, all the documents obtained later have no value.
Researchers have so far established that it damaged the state with 640,000 lei, but they know that it is a much higher amount. The damage done to the universities during all this time is also unknown.
