Anticorruption prosecutors sequester personal assets of Romanian MP Sebastian Ghita

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has sequestered the personal assets of Romanian MP and businessman Sebastian Ghita, he said on Tuesday after leaving the DNA headquarters in Ploiesti, Prahova County, according to Mediafax. The businessman has been previously charged by DNA with supporting a criminal group in the case of Iulian Hertanu, the brother-in-law of Romanian PM Victor Ponta. Ghita he has denied the accusations.

The businessman explained the DNA has sequestered intangible assets and accounts worth a total of approximately EUR 2 million, the estimated prejudice in this case.

Ghita had been previously placed by anti-corruption prosecutors under judicial control in the Hertanu case. The former PSD member was charged alongside Virgiliu Roman, the head of production of Hidro Prahova, Mircea Cosma, the Prahova County council president and his son, PSD MP Vlad Cosma, of having supported the criminal group Iulian Hertanu was part of in accessing European funds for a contract to expand the water supply network in Comarnic, Prahova County. The contract was worth approximately EUR 10 million.

Ghita claims he didn’t know Hertanu at the time the PM’s brother-in-law signed the contract with Hidro Prahova and that they met one year later.

The MP said he doesn’t plan to resign following this case. “I don’t consider myself guilty. This fact can be established only by a judge. The moment a judge will say I am guilty I will consider such a measure,” he stated.

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Ghita is a friend of Ponta and he was closely involved in his presidential campaign last year. He resigned from the Social Democrat Party (PSD) in November 2014.

Simona Bazavan