DNA expanded the prosecution on the name of Elena Udrea for money laundering. The former minister is accused of taking bribes in cash which she then transferred to PDL Bucharest, under the guise of fictitious contracts donation, made to disguise the origin of the dirty money.
The press release issued by DNA in this case was presented during the show On Today’s Agenda:
"The prosecutors within the National Anticorruption Directorate - Department for combating corruption related offenses have decided to further extend the prosecution and conduct thereof against UDREA ELENA GABRIELA and BREAZU TUDOR LIBERIU for the offense of money laundering.
The prosecutors order stated that in this case, there is data and clues resulting from reasonable suspicion that outline the following facts:
During 2010-2011, Elena Udrea Gabriela with Topoliceanu Ana-Maria, Director of the National Investment Company (suspect in this case) received a the amount of 300,000 lei from the administrator of SC CONSMIN S.A. to ensure timely payment of works executed by the said company under contracts with the National Investment Company.
Therefore, after the National Investment Company achieved payments to SC CONSMIN S.A. for the works performed, the manager of the company had to transfer 10% of the amount received by the company controlled by Lungu Ștefan, SC Last Time Studio SRL, based on fictitious consulting agreements. In this way, they made five payments totaling 335,486 lei.
In his turn, Lungu Ștefan would remit the money received to Breazu Liberiu Tudor, a close friend of both Udrea Elena Gabriela and Topoliceanu Ana Maria.
The payments were made in cash brokered by the company S.C. Ekaton Consulting S.R.L. managed by Breazu Liberiu Tudor, based on fictitious consultancy contracts. In this way, they achieved 4 bank transfers in total amount of 209.762 lei and a cash payment of approximately 90.000 lei.
Some of these amounts were handed in cash to Topoliceanu Ana Maria, who handed them over, in her turn, to Udrea Elena Gabriela. The difference was used to pay Breazu Liberiu Tudor to cover different expenses of Elena Udrea or of Topoliceanu Ana Maria.
In 2011, Elena Udrea Gabriela requested and received from the defendant Gardean Adrian, for himself and another, material gains amounting to 10% of payments made by the ministry for works contracts concluded by SC Termogaz Company S.A. and SC Kranz Eurocenter SA, in exchange for the guarantee that funding will be approved in time.
Following this request, on 06.10.2011 Gardean Adrian remitted 900,000 euros in cash to Nastasia Gheorghe in the account of the revenues achieved by the two companies with funds from the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism.
The amount was handed in by Nastasia Gheorghe on the same day to minister Udrea Elena Gabriela..
The evidence so far revealed that part of the amount obtained from the corruption offenses described above was transferred by Udrea Elena Gabriela and Breazu Tudor Liberiu into the accounts of the Bucharest party organization that included the latter, under the guise of fictitious donation contracts, made to disguise the origin of the dirty money.
Therefore, during July 19 , 2011 to July 18 , 2012 the organization’s bookkeeping records registered 21 donation contracts with an overall amount of 1.537.200 lei.
Suspects Udrea Elena Gabriela and Breazu Tudor Liberiu were made aware of the standing charges, in accordance with Art. 307 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
We specify that the prosecution is a stage of the criminal proceedings regulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure, activity which cannot, under any circumstances, infringe the principle of presumption of innocence. "