UPDATE 14.23 – District 1 Mayor Andrei Chiliman reached the High Court of Cassation and Justice which decides whether he gets arrested for the next 30 days.
With him, there are present other suspects in the same case file.
Until now, the Liberal did not admit to any of the charges he is being accused of.
UPDATE 11.47 – How rich is Andrei Chiliman: 11 land plots, art items 150.000 euro. View the statement of assets of the district 1 mayor.
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INITIAL NEWS 10.18
Prosecutors ask for the arrest of Andrei Chiliman, who spent the night in police custody after being detained for 24 hours by DNA.
Andrei Chiliman will be released from arrest today and taken to the supreme court for the arrest warrant under charges of influence peddling and establishments of a criminal group, in the case file in which the brother in law of prime minister Victor Ponta, Iulian Herţanu is being investigated along with several MPs.
Chiliman was picked up from the airport and taken into custody at the headquarters of DNA Ploieşti and subsequently detained.
Ioana Costescu, personal counselor of the mayor, Andrei Chiliman, and the treasurer of PNL Vlad Moisescu were detained Thursday night by the DNA prosecutors in Ploieşti, being accused of constituting an organized criminal group and influence peddling. .
Local counselor Ion Brad, Costescu and Moisescu were to be taken to Câmpina, in the police custody . The four will appear Friday before the supreme court with the proposal for remand,
Andrei Chiliman, member of PNL, has been mayor of district 1 Bucharest since June 2004,serving on his third mandate. He was also deputy for two terms : 1996-2000 and 2000-2004.
The link name of the Hertanu case, which connects it to the case about the sewerage network in Comarnic and the activity of district 1 City Hall is businessman Gheorghe Boeru, questioned and detained last week by DNA, along with former Vice President of Prahova County Council Adrian Semcu.
Prosecutors argues that Andrei Chiliman took bribes from businessman Gheorghe Boeru to entrust him the thermal rehabilitation of apartment buildings in the district 1. But the bribe money originated in a consultancy contract concluded with Hidroprahova by Boeru.
MONEY FROM HIDRO PRAHOVA, BRIBE FOR CHILIMAN
"Part of the money collected by ROMAIR CONSULTING from public funds (including those collected from PRAHOVA HYDRO) was made available for Gheorghe Boeru without economic justification based on actual cash taken and used in personal interest of George Boeru to pay a fee in exchange for the support given to him to obtain from the Municipality of district 1 Bucharest, the awarding of the contract titled
Group members have obtained contracts in exchange for fees of over 38 million lei.
The bribe was shared according to each one's contribution and Andrei Chiliman took a 30% commission. In addition, 10% of the money was directed to the organization District 1 PNL. The former treasurer of the Liberal Party, Ion Brad was detained by DNA prosecutors.
Bribe: 30% CHILIMAN, 10% PNL
- 30% Andrei Chiliman
- 15% Vlad Moisescu
- 15% Ioana Costescu
- 15% Ion Brad
- 10% PNL Sector 1
- 15% - different civil servants