Liviu Dragnea's sentence is postponed for June 21

The High Court of Cassation and Justice postponed for June 21 the sentencing in the file “DGASPC Teleorman”, in which PSD leader Liviu Dragnea is tried for instigating abuse of office and intellectual incitement as president of the Council County Teleorman.

The reason for the postponement was the fact that some of the defendants, including Bombonica Prodana, Dragnea’s ex-wife, submitted written conclusions on June 7 and judges need time to study. It is for the second time that the Supreme Court has postponed the pronouncement in this file.

At the latest trial date of May 15, the prosecutor asked Liviu Dragnea for statutory life sentences, seven years and six months in prison for instigating abuse of office and two years and six months for incitement to intellectual forgery.

Also, in the case of the PSD leader, the prosecutor argued that the facts in this case were competing with those in the Referendum dossier, in which Dragnea was sentenced to two years with suspension, thus requiring the suspension of the suspension and the transformation in a punishment with execution.

Light punishments were requested also for Floarea Alesu, former general manager of DGASPC Teleorman, and Rodica Miloş, former deputy executive director of DGASPC Teleorman, for their accusations.

Constantin Claudiu Balaban, head of the Complex of Services for Children and Families in Alexandria, Ionel Marineci, former chief of Service Complex of Services for Children and Families, and Valentina Mirela Marinca, at the time head of the Recovery Complex and coordinator for the Child and Family Services Complex, the investigators have requested, since they have acknowledged the facts, minimum sentences for allegations in the file.

Liviu Dragnea’s lawyer, Marian Nazat, argued that no witnesses of case DGASPC Teleorman have heard of a provocation from Dragnea and that it was not empowered to directly control. Liviu Dragnea asked the magistrates to be acquitted, and with regard to his eventual obligeation to work for the benefit of the community, he showed that he had done so for 20 years.

“I strongly affirmed my innocence. I have committed absolutely none of the alleged facts that DNA had thrown in the indictment,” said Dragnea at the end of the trial.

During the trial, Adriana Botorogeanu, Gheorghe Nicuşor and Anisa Stoica and Ionel Marineci chose to be tried through the simplified procedure, which presupposes the recognition of the guilt and the one third of the punishment, but the latter later came back, asking the judges to give up this procedure.

The file was sent to the court by the DNA in July 2016, and the trial started on the ground in January 2017.

According to DNA, Dragnea intervened to maintain and pay salary rights for two employees from DGASPC Teleorman, although she knew they were actually working in the PSD Teleorman Organization.

In December 2013, prosecutors registered an ex officio notification that Floarea Alesu, Chief Executive Officer of DGASPC Teleorman, in return for undue benefits, proceeded to illegally hold two employees from DGASPC Teleorman, Adriana Botorogeanu and Anisa Niculina Stoica.

According to prosecutors, the two employees did not present themselves at work or perform any of the activities included in their employment contract signed with DGASPC Teleorman, actually carrying out their activity at the headquarters of the PSD Teleorman County Organization.

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