Businessman Georgica Cornu, accused of embezzlement and money laundering

Newsroom 14/05/2015 | 10:43

Businessman Georgica Cornu, heard on Wednesday at the DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) Mehedinti headquarters, is accused of setting up an organized criminal group, embezzlement and money laundering, in a new file with a prejudice of almost RON 12 million (EUR 2.7 million), in which two other people are involved.

According to Mediafax, businessman Georgica Cornu, his former associate in the group of companies Confort, Lucian Caraiman, and another representative of the companies are suspected of setting up an organized criminal group, bad faith use of goods or of the loan granted to the company for purposes contrary to the company’s interests or in his own benefit or to favor another company in which he has interests, directly or indirectly, repeated embezzlement and money laundering.

Investigators also show that businessman Georgica Cornu would have initiated the organized criminal group in August 2012, the other two suspects dealing with the removal from SC C&C Confort SRL heritage of goods free of charges, in order to impede their execution, for putting them under the group leader’s control afterwards.

The prejudice in this case is RON 11,990,931.39 (EUR 2,689,454), representing the value of the real estate assets taken out fraudulently from SC C&C MH Confort SRL heritage, by defrauding the creditors of this company, including the Ministry of Public Finance through ANAF (National Agency for Fiscal Administration) Timis, says DIICOT.

Staff