Mikhail Vlasov was sentenced to 8 years in prison. The former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is in the third case of corruption

The former president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry was definitively sentenced on Tuesday, November 3, in the High Court of Cassation and Justice, to 8 years in prison, in a case in which he is accused of using influence or authority to obtain benefits. embezzlement, falsification of documents under private signature.

DNA claims that, between 2008 and 2014, Mihail Vlasov, abusing the position of president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, took steps to obtain personal and personal benefits for his entourage, to the detriment of the institution he represents. .

In the same case, Vlasov’s daughter, Ingrid, was tried for complicity in embezzlement on an ongoing basis, but also Suciu Mariana Rodica, at the time of the events, general manager of ROMEXPO SA for embezzlement and falsification of documents under a private signature. The court ordered the termination of the criminal proceedings against Ingrid Vlsov on the grounds that her act is prescribed.

The other final decisions of the ICCJ decision:
Rodica Luiza Grigorescu (Secretary General of the CCIR) – 2 years and 10 months in prison suspended, Mariana Rodica Suciu (General Manager of SC Romexpo SA) – 3 years and 4 months in prison suspended, Nicolai Zdrobici – 2 years and 3 months in prison suspended. In the court of first instance, the penalties applied to them were execution.

In the civil aspect, the court ordered Mihail Vlasov to pay 53,823,942 lei in material damages to the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of which 48,301,870 lei only and 5,522,071 lei in solidarity with the other defendants. Likewise, Mihail Vlasov must pay 6,086,741 lei for material damages to the civil party Romexpo SA, in solidarity with the other defendants.

According to DNA, “in the period 2008-2014, the accused Vlasov Mihail, as president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry – CCIR, abusing his position and the influence acquired in this capacity, took measures to obtain personal material benefits and for the people around him, to the detriment of the institution he represents. Thus, he caused serious damage to both the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and SC Romexpo SA, of which CCIR is the majority shareholder “.

According to the prosecutors, the total damage caused to the CCIR budget is estimated at 54,342,145.20 lei and the total damage caused to the budget of SC Romexpo SA at 6,086,741.44 lei.

The former president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce, Mikhail Vlasov, already has two sentences: one for five years and the second for two years in prison. After the merger of the two sentences, the judges of the Court of Appeal of Iasi decided that Vlasov should serve five years and eight months in prison.

He was convicted for the first time, in June 2015, by the Superior Court of Cassation and Justice in an influence peddling case, after being caught red-handed while receiving 200,000 euros from a businessman whose promise in exchange that he would use his influence to persuade to the arbitrators of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration to rule in his favor.

In November 2016, Mikhail Vlasov was sentenced in a second case to two years in prison, being accused by DNA prosecutors who, in February 2013, as chairman of the Board of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, asked a deputy “to support their interests” by promoting a draft regulatory act entitled “Law on commercial registrars and the activity of registration in the commercial register”.

In November 2017, he was released on parole, after serving less than two years in prison.