Chairman of the Political Investigations Group, Mugur Ciuvică, filed a complaint this morning, with the Office.
In October 2002, Traian Băsescu bought a villa in Otopeni with 280 000 dollars and he said back then that he got the money from selling a land plot to Costel Căşuneanu. In reality, however, the money the President got from that sale of land were transferred to the account of Ioana Basescu.
The President did not have at the time accounts deposits nor cash to purchase the villa in Otopeni. Therefore, Traian Basescu was accused of laundering 280 000 dollars, the provenience of which he cannot justify.
On the other hand, the price paid for the land by Costel Căşuneanu to Basescu was 5.5 times higher than the price at which the President bought the land. Traian Basescu received from Căşuneanu over 360 thousand dollars.
On October 15, 2002, Traian Basescu took a bag of money to the bank and made deposits of 110 thousand dollars in cash. These transactions were surveyed in 2004, but the Office of Combating Money Laundering considered that Traian Basescu had immunity.
Invited on the Monday edition of the show "Today’s forecast" , Mugur Ciuvică showed that although the law regulating the activity of the Office of Combating Money Laundering requires that a file be kept for 10 years, if there are not sufficient evidence to send it to court, Basescu's file was closed on January 5, 2005.