Sorina Pintea, former Minister of Health, was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months with execution by the judges of the Cluj Court, for accepting bribes. The sentence of the Cluj Court is not final, and Pintea has already declared an appeal.
The court also decided to prohibit Sorina Pintea from being elected to public positions or from holding the position of manager in a public hospital, for a period of three years. The magistrates also ordered the confiscation of the sum of 10,000 euros from Sorina Pintea. The decision is not final and can be appealed within ten days of communication.
We remind you that, at the end of April 2020, Sorina Pintea was sent to court by DNA prosecutors for taking bribes in a continuous form. According to the indictment, between November 2019 and February 28, 2020, Pintea, in the capacity of manager of the Baia Mare County Emergency Hospital, claimed and received, through an intermediary, from the representatives of a commercial company, in two installments, the sums of 10,000 euros (on December 20, 2019) and 120,000 lei (on February 28, 2020), which he would not have been entitled to.
The money represented 7% of the value of a public procurement contract, the object of which was “the design and execution of works to fit out the operating room-cardiovascular and thoracic surgery room and adjacent spaces in the “Dr. Constantin Opriş” County Emergency Hospital Baia Mare”, concluded in 2019 by the hospital with that company.
On February 28, 2020, after receiving the amount of 120,000 lei, activity that would have taken place in the defendant’s office in the hospital, the flagrant crime was established, the prosecutors claim.
Sorina Pintea was Minister of Health in the Dăncilă Government (PSD) between January 2018 and November 2019, when she fell through a no-confidence motion.
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