IMPARȚIALITATE·INTEGRITATE·EFICIENȚĂ
April, 3rd, 2007
Press release
Following the request of several mass-media representatives, as a result of the statements given by the President of the Conservatory Party Mr. Dan Voiculescu during a press conference on April 3rd 2007, regarding some investigations carried out by the anticorruption prosecutors, the Information and Public Relations Office has the ability to state the following: On March 30th 2007, the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate started the criminal investigation against DAN VOICULESCU for committing the offence of money laundering.
The criminal investigation has also started against the following accused:
VOICULESCU CAMELIA – RODICA - the daughter of Dan Voiculescu and MIHAI LAZAR – president of the board of directors of SC Grivco SA for committing the offences of money laundering and forgery of private documents,
COPOS GHEORGHE – major associate of SC Ana Holding SA, ROZA GIULIO-GIUSEPE, president of the board of directors of SC Ana Holding SA, for committing the offences of participating to a public auction with falsified offers, fraud, forgery of private documents and money laundering,
CRISTEA ADRIAN, for committing the offences of participating to a public auction with falsified offers.
The evidence showed that during 2000 – 2004, the accused Copos Gheorghe laundered part of the sums illegally obtained after selling 38 commercial spaces to the Romanian Lottery, by transferring the money through the personal accounts of the accused Voiculescu Camelia – Rodica and Voiculescu Dan, as well as of the company Grivco SA.
The sums illegally obtained by the accused Copos Gheorghe came on the one hand from the profit resulted from the appropriation of assets of Fast Service Electronica SA from the former State Property Fund, (Fast Service Electronica SA was a company which had in its patrimony 38 commercial spaces located in central areas within the main towns of the country) for much lower prices than the real ones and their subsequent selling for the market prices and on the other hand, from the fact that the company Ana Electronic SA didn’t pay its fiscal obligations during October - December 2004, using false, justifiable documents.
This file was constituted on February 13th 2006, following the disjunction of the file „the Lottery” – a criminal file finalized on June 6th 2006, when the defendant Copos Gheorghe and other four co-defendants were sent to trial, in connection with a fiscal evasion of over 1 million Euro.
It is worth mentioning that the six defendants were informed about the charges brought against them, according to art. 228 paragraph 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE