Four counts against Zoltan Prosszer. Clarifications made by the businessman from Mures – News from Mures, News Targu Mures

The special administrator of SC Romcab SA Târgu Mureș, Zoltan Prosszer, clarified, on March 29, 2024, through a press release made on the website of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, www.bvb.ro, opposite of his detention by the Mureș Police, for a period of 24 hours, for four charges in a case of abuse of trust.

We reproduce, in the lines below, the content of the press release assumed by the businessman Zoltan Prosszer:

“Following the events that happened in the last few days, the undersigned Zoltan Prosszer, as a special administrator of SC Romcab SA, considers it useful and necessary to come with clarifications on certain aspects related in the article that appeared in the press, namely “…At the same time, 9 people have were taken to the headquarters of the police unit, with a warrant to bring them, for hearings. As a result of the administered probation, three men, aged 59, 49 and 33, from Mures county, were detained for 24 hours. Also, in relation to the 59-year-old man, the investigations are carried out under the aspect of committing the crimes of the fictitious transmission of social shares or shares held in a company, in order to evade criminal prosecution or in order to make it more difficult, the abuse of social goods and continued abuse of trust, acts provided for and punished by Law 31/1990R on commercial companies and the Criminal Code.”.

First of all, the “59-year-old man…detained” by the criminal investigation bodies within the IPJ Mures, is the undersigned, Zoltan Prosszer, who was detained under 4 charges.

Following the statements given to the case prosecutor, two of these charges were immediately dropped. Thus, the investigations carried out under the aspect of crimes of fictitious transmission of social shares or shares held in a company, respectively the crime of deception, were eliminated due to the lack of evidence and clear facts. It should also be mentioned that the other two charges that were rejected by the criminal investigation bodies are:

– the crime of abuse of trust in a continuous form, which originates from several financial leasing contracts that were terminated at the time of the company’s insolvency, at that time the judicial administrator ordered that the goods that are the subject of these contracts enter the company’s patrimony , with ownership transfer and registration as a pledge, which is why at the moment all the goods are in the custody of the police bodies, pending the judge’s ruling for some of them, the others being out of the appeal period;

– the crime of using the assets belonging to the company’s patrimony for personal purposes, was justified and clarified through numerous supporting documents submitted to the headquarters of the criminal investigation bodies, from the content of which it appears that the assets referred to in the accusation are assets used in the interest society, and these produced/produce benefits for society, documents accepted by the research bodies as valid.

In conclusion, the charges under which I, the undersigned, was detained, are grouped into two categories, crimes for which the criminal investigation bodies have not confirmed the accusations, respectively crimes for which the evidence and explanations brought before the prosecutor of the case follow, in our opinion , to be withdrawn as well.

I specify that the facts imputed by the criminal investigation bodies are not related to the company Romcab SA, the investigations being carried out regarding another commercial company, where the undersigned holds the capacity of special administrator.

I also mention the fact that, although the law gives me the benefit of the presumption of innocence, I will make all the necessary efforts to collaborate with the judicial bodies in order to prove my innocence and that of the other people involved in the case.”

The original news

Police officers of the Mureș Criminal Investigation Service, under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Târgu Mureș Court, on Tuesday, March 26, carried out 19 house searches in the counties of Mureș, Hunedoara, Bihor and Ilfov, in a criminal case regarding the commission of the offense of breach of trust .

“From research it emerged that, from 2023 until now, a commercial company from Mureș county, whose activity is the road transport of goods, would no longer have paid the installments of the leasing contracts concluded with several companies. The research carried out so far also indicated that the same commercial company would have unjustifiably refused to return the vehicles, some of them continuing to use them after the termination of the contracts, and others hiding them so as not to be discovered by the police. In the same case, on March 6 this year, the police executed six search warrants, after which they identified and picked up 90 vehicles that were the subject of leasing contracts, hidden in the yards of some commercial companies in the municipality of Târgu Mureș. The damage estimated so far is approximately 15,000,000 lei”, informed the press office of the Mureș County Police Inspectorate.

According to the cited source, the specialized support in question is provided by the Special Operations Directorate within the Romanian Police. Also, the activities benefit from the support of the Ilfov, Bihor and Hunedoara county police inspectorates. From the Mureș Mureș County Police Inspectorate, police officers from the Public Order Service, the Weapons, Explosives and Dangerous Substances Service, the Forensic Service, the Târgu Mureș Municipality Police, as well as fighters from the Special Actions Service, participated. The gendarmes of the “King Ferdinand I” Târgu Mureș Mobile Gendarmerie Group and the Mureș County Gendarmerie Inspectorate also participated in the searches.

UPDATE, Wednesday, March 27:

The press office of IPJ Mureș made the following clarifications:

“Following the 19 home searches carried out on March 26, by the police of the Mureș Criminal Investigation Service, under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Târgu Mureș Court, in the counties of Mureș, Hunedoara, Bihor and Ilfov, they were discovered and seized for further investigation vehicles, several documents of evidentiary value, mobile phones and sums of money.

At the same time, 9 people were taken to the headquarters of the police unit, with an arrest warrant, for questioning.

As a result of the probationary period administered, three men, aged 59, 49 and 33, from Mureș county, were detained for 24 hours.

Also, with regard to the 59-year-old man, the investigations are carried out under the aspect of committing the crimes of the fictitious transmission of social shares or shares held in a company, in order to evade criminal prosecution or in order to make it more difficult, the abuse of social goods and abuse of trust in continued form, acts provided for and punished by Law 31/1990R on commercial companies and the Criminal Code.

Those in question were led under escort and handed over to the Detention and Preventive Arrest Center within the Mureș IPJ, to be presented to the magistrates, for taking other preventive measures.

We remind you that, on March 26 this year, the police officers of the Mureș Criminal Investigation Service, under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Târgu Mureș Court, carried out 19 house searches, in the counties of Mureș, Hunedoara, Bihor and Ilfov, in a criminal case regarding the commission of the offense of breach of trust.

From the research it emerged that, from 2023 until now, a commercial company from Mureș County, whose activity is the road transport of goods, would no longer have paid the installments of the leasing contracts concluded with several companies.

The research carried out so far also indicated that the same commercial company would have unjustifiably refused to return the vehicles, some of them continuing to use them after the termination of the contracts, and others hiding them so as not to be discovered by the police.

In the same case, on March 6 this year, the police executed 6 search warrants, following which they identified and picked up 90 vehicles that were the subject of leasing contracts, hidden in the yards of some commercial companies in the municipality of Târgu Mureș.

The estimated damage in the case is approximately 15,000,000 lei.

The specialized support in question was provided by the Special Operations Department of the Romanian Police.

Also, the activities benefited from the support of the Ilfov, Bihor and Hunedoara county police inspectorates.

Police officers from the Public Order Service, the Weapons, Explosives and Dangerous Substances Service, the Forensic Service, the Târgu Mureș Municipality Police, as well as fighters from the Special Actions Service, participated from the Mureș IPJ.

The gendarmes of the “King Ferdinand I” Mobile Gendarmerie Group Târgu Mureș and the Mureș County Gendarmerie Inspectorate also participated in the searches.

We make it clear that, throughout the criminal process, the suspected persons benefit from the procedural rights and guarantees provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as the presumption of innocence.”

(Editorial)