The Court of Appeal judges ruled their final decision Thursday deciding the acquittal of all defendants in the Lottery II case file, counting among them businessman George Copos and Camelia Voiculescu, daughter of Dan Voiculescu, Agerpres reports.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of DNA with reference to Constitutional Court decision no. 1092/2012, and partly abolished the sentence issued by the Bucharest Court in June 2015, in that it discontinued the criminal proceedings started against George Copos, Giulio Roza- Giuzepe and Camelia Voiculescu, as a result of the special prescribing of criminal liability for the offense of using insider information.
The Court of Appeal upheld the decision by the Bucharest Court that all the defendants in this case were acquitted, the decision is final.
Therefore, the following were acquitted : ex-Communications minister Sorin Pantiş; Vasile Bontaş, former general manager of SC "Ana Electronic SA"; Octavian Juncu, member in the Board of Directors of SC "Ana Electronic" SA; Ioan Maxim, former general manager of SC "Fast Service Electronica" SA Bucureşti; Ilie Precup, expert assessor ; Roza Giulio-Giuzepe, former CFO of SC "Ana Electronic" SA, vice-president in the Board of directors of SC "Ana Grup" SA and director of SC Rom Tur GM Impex SRL; Mihai Stolojanu, member in the Management Committee of the Branch Board of Directors of the Bucharest Territorial State Property Fund (FPP); Nicu Romeo Stancu, expert of FPP; George Vodislav, Ion Filip and Niculae Ghinea.
* George Copos, chairman of the SC "Ana Electronic" SA Bucharest and shareholder of SC "Ana Group" SA Bucharest, was indicted in December 2008 for the offenses of money laundering; forgery of private documents; incitement to the crime of improper participation to the offense of forgery; use of insider information to acquire for his own account or the account of a third party, directly or indirectly, financial instruments to which that information related; disclosure of inside information and the recommendation made to other persons to acquire or dispose of financial instruments to which that information related and engage in agreement with others to market manipulation operations.
* Former Minister of Communications Sorin Pantiş, representative of Grivco SA Bucharest, was accused of using insider information to acquire for his own account or for the account of a third party, directly or indirectly, financial instruments to which that information related, disclosure of inside information and recommendation to other persons to acquire or dispose of financial instruments to which that information related and engaged in agreement with others in market manipulation operations.
* In the same casefile, Camelia Voiculescu, acting as an individual, was prosecuted for using inside information to acquire for her own account or the account of a third party, directly or indirectly, financial instruments to which that information related and for engaging in agreement with others in market manipulation operations.
According to the indictment prepared by the prosecutors, the participation of the leadership of the State Property Fund helped convert illegally the shares of SC "Fast Service Electronica" SA Bucharest, at a conversion ratio of 6.71 times lower than that resulting from the consideration of their real commercial value based on fictitious claims worth about 550,000 lei belonging to SC "Ana Electronic" SA Bucharest.
The fictitious claim was generated based on supporting commercial and accounting documents forged by Ioan Maxim - general director of "Fast Service Electronica SA", Vasile Bontaş - General Director of "Ana Electronic" and Roza Giulio Giuzepe - economic manager of "Ana Electronic ".
Prosecutors also claim that George Copos, as Chairman of the Board of "Ana Electronic," Roza Giulio-Giuzepe, Vasile Bontaş and Octavian Juncu, in order to conceal the illicit origin of the shares in the capital of "Fast Service Electronica" SA obtained by "Ana Electronic", due to the operation of illegal conversion in 2000, undertook between December 2002 - December 2004 operations of money laundering (placement, layering and integration of units) operations which resulted in an illicit gain totaling 23,765,904 lei.
Also, George Copos and Giulio Roza - Giuzepe acted in agreement, at different times, but making the same criminal activities of the capital market manipulation.
According to DNA, in this way, they aimed to achieve a shareholding of over 90% in SC "Ana Imep" SA (traded on RASDAQ regulated market) enabling them to close it by delisting the company from the stock exchange.
The prosecutors also showed that the information being public, the disclosure was likely to influence the price and other aspects of trading of the shares of the issuer in question (Ana Imep SA Pitesti).
DNA also claimed that the criminal activity was conducted with the fraudulent participation of Camelia Voiculescu and Sorin Pantiş.