The mayor of Mioveni, Ion Georgescu, detained for influence peddling after was caught red-handed by the DNA when he was returning 10,000 euros received in bribes, he was pre-arrested for 30 days, reports Agerpres.
Ion Georgescu, the mayor of MioveniPhoto: AGERPRES
“Admits the preventive arrest proposal formulated by the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice – National Anti-Corruption Directorate – Pitesti Territorial Service. (…) Orders the preventive arrest of the defendant GI, investigated for the crime of influence peddling (.. .), for a period of 30 days, starting from 05.10.2023, the arrest warrant being valid until 03.11.2023, inclusive”, states the decision issued on Thursday by the Argeş Court.
The court’s decision can be appealed within 48 hours of the pronouncement.
The DNA announced, on Thursday, that Ion Georgescu was detained for committing the crime of influence peddling.
The accusations that DNA brings to the mayor of Mioveni
“In the fall of 2022, Ion Georgescu would have accepted from a person (witness in question) the promise to remit an amount of 30,000 euros, of which he would have received, in December 2022, a first installment of 10,000 euros, in order to exerted the influence he claimed to have on some decision-making factors in the management of the Mioveni City Hospital, so that they would order the employment of a relative of the witness as a doctor.
The rest of the money was to be handed over to the mayor, according to the agreement, after the actual placement of the respective person in the medical unit.
Since until now the mayor would not have been able to keep his “promise” made to the witness, the latter would have asked the suspect to return the amount of 10,000 euros previously remitted to him. In this context, on Wednesday, in the headquarters of the Mioveni town hall, Ion Georgescu gave the witness the sum of money mentioned above, on which occasion the crime was established”.
Ion Georgescu was president of the PSD Mioveni organization and vice president of PSD Argeș, until he was expelled from PSD on Wednesday evening, by a decision of the Permanent County Office of PSD Argeș.
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