The shocking case of corruption of the road traffic inspectors from Transylvania, in a new stage, the file was opened at the Cluj Court by the anti-corruption prosecutors.
DNA prosecutors entered into plea agreements with several inspectors and others were sent to court under judicial review. It is about a road traffic inspector from Maramureș, Ioan Orha, accused of abuse of office and the use of information that is not intended for publicity, but also taking bribes in a continuous form.
A road traffic inspector from Bihor was sent to court for abuse of office and the use of information not intended for publicity. Cristin Țepele, already sent to court in another case, was accused of taking bribes in a continuous form and using information that is not intended for publicity.
Florin Mihai Zehan, road traffic inspector within the Cluj Territorial Inspectorate, was in turn sent to court for abuse of office and the use of information not intended for publicity.
The vice-mayor of the Sârbi commune in Bihor, Florin Popovici, was sent to court for complicity in bribery and carrying out financial operations, as commercial documents, incompatible with the position.
In the drawn up indictment, the prosecutors retained, in essence, the following state of facts, as presented by the DNA:
In this case, investigations were carried out regarding the manner in which, in the period 2021-2023, traffic inspectors from the ISCTR – Territorial Inspectorate 4, including the defendants mentioned above, allegedly “protected” several commercial companies with object of activity in the field of road transport, in that it would have provided their administrators with information not intended for publicity regarding the controls that were to be carried out and would not have taken the legal measures to sanction them with regard to the violations of the law that they would be found (exceeding the maximum authorized transport mass, lack of a transport license, etc.).
In relation to the way of fulfilling their duties, the defendants Orha Ioan and Ţepele Cristin Viorel, directly or through intermediaries (e.g. the defendant Popovici Florin Mădălin), allegedly received sums of money (up to 20,000 lei) from the representatives of some transport operators , in the case of the defendant Ţepele Cristin Viorel) or other improper benefits.
In the period from April 2022 to August 2023, the defendant Popovici Florin Mădălin, as deputy mayor of Sârbi commune, Bihor county, allegedly managed a commercial company active in the field of road transport and carried out several commercial operations, as acts of trade incompatible with the function.
In the case, protective measures were ordered. The file was sent for trial to the Cluj Court, with a proposal to maintain the preventive and insurance measures ordered in the case.
Two road traffic inspectors from Cluj, Mircea Mihai Pop and Vasile Șofron, entered into a plea agreement for abuse of office and the use of information not intended for publicity. The two, in the presence of the lawyers, expressly declared that they recognize the commission of the acts held against them, accept the legal framework for which the criminal action was initiated and agree with the type and amount of the penalties applied, as well as with the form of their execution and have already been sentenced to one year of suspended prison under supervision in the case of Pop and one year and two months, also suspended under supervision, for Şofron.
“In the initial file, investigations are continuing regarding several people, including those mentioned in the previous communiques”, the DNA prosecutors state.
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