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According to the court’s decision, Nelu Iordache received 11 years for tax evasion and 2 years and 6 months for embezzlement, sentences combined with a sentence of 2 years and 6 months with suspension received in another case, finally having to serve 12 years and 6 months . In the same case, Ali Imad, the company’s administrator, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for complicity in tax evasion, and two defendants, Mioara (ex Stancu) Băluţă and Luiza Maria (ex Cristescu) Ilie, were acquitted of perjury .
What is the damage to be paid in the Blue Air case?
The company SC Bata Sky Imobiliare SA (formerly SC Blue Air Transport Aerian) SA was sentenced to pay a criminal fine of 30,000 lei. On the civil side, the court forced Nelu Iordache, Ali Imad and Bata Sky Imobiliare SA (former SC Blue Air Transport Aerian SA), through the judicial liquidator Consulta 99 SPRL, to pay the amount of 8,988,122 to ANAF, which represents the Illegally deducted VAT to which are added the accessory payment obligations related to the principal debt (interest, penalties, increases).
Likewise, Nelu Iordache must pay the company Bata Sky Imobiliare SA the amount of 481,310 lei. In addition, several documents were canceled, including a loan agreement between Iordache Nelu and Bata Sky worth 11 million euros. The decision is not final and can be appealed. Nelu Iordache, at the time of the events, associate and administrator of SC Bata Sky Imobiliare SA, was sued by DNA in this case in June 2018, for committing the crimes of continuous tax evasion and embezzlement.
In the same case, Mioara (ex Stancu) Băluţă, at the time of the crime committed in a bank, Luiza Maria (ex Cristescu) Ilie, for committing the crime of false testimony and the company Bata Sky Imobiliare SA, for Committing the crime of tax evasion on an ongoing basis.
What the prosecutors wrote in the file
The anti-corruption prosecutors point out in the indictment sent to the judges’ table that, between February and April 2011, Nelu Iordache Nelu registered in the accounting of SC Bata Sky Imobiliare SA, fictitious acquisitions of promotional advertising material for a total of 46,356,636 lei, of which VAT in the amount of 8,972,252 lei.
With these efforts, Iordache would have damaged the state budget with the amount of 8,972,252 lei (the equivalent of 2,133,254 euros), which represents the illegally deducted VAT. The products were allegedly purchased from two companies managed by Ali Imad, ‘says DNA.
Subsequently, until January 2014, Nelu Iordache would have improperly appropriated the amount of 47,311,243 lei, which he would have ‘justified’ by simulating a loan that he would have granted to SC Bata Sky Imobiliare SA, and in this sense would have concluded a contract for the that falsely accredited that he had loaned the company the amount of 11,000,0000 euros. “This contract would have generated, at the expense of the company, the obligation to return the respective amount in favor of Iordache, although in reality the company never received money, in the previous way,” prosecutors add.
The investigators specify that, being heard during the investigation, Mioara (ex Stancu) Băluţă, a bank employee, and Luiza (ex Cristescu) Maria Ilie falsely stated that, between April 18 and 28, 2011, in the banking unit in the first one carried out its activity, the operations were carried out in the sense of those shown above, in reality, no amount of money was deposited, credited and withdrawn. Nelu Iordache has also been sued for DNA in several cases, according to Agerpres.
