Cătălin Stanculescu, director of the Oltenia Energy Complex, was detained for 24 hours for continuous influence peddling. He is accused of receiving money to expedite payments to certain companies.
Cătălin – Liviu Stănculescu, the director of the Energy Department of the Oltenia Energy Complex, is accused of having received 13,000 euros from the administrator of a company with which the CEO had a contract to speak with those in management with attributions in approving payments to expedite some payments.
In the same case, it was ordered to take the measure of judicial control for a duration of 60 days against a natural person, the administrator of a commercial company, investigated for bribery.
In the period 25.07.2022-23.03.2023, at different time intervals, the defendant Stănculescu Cătălin-Liviu, in the mentioned capacity, allegedly received directly, for himself, the total sum of 13,000 euros from the administrator of a company in contractual relations with the CEO (witness in question), leading to believe that he would have influence on the CEO Directorate, with powers in approving payments, and that he would cause them to expedite the payment of the invoices issued by the businessman’s company in the shortest possible time from the date of their issuance.
2. On 06.01.2024, in the city of Bucharest, in the premises of a restaurant, the other defendant, investigated in the present case, allegedly promised a person from the management of a state company (witness in the case) the sum of 200,000 euros in connection with awarding to the defendant company, under non-competitive conditions, a contract worth 1,000,000 euros, with the object of demolition and waste management works. On the same occasion, the defendant would have indicated to the witness the way in which he was going to take possession of the contract, namely: rigging the procurement procedure by inserting some preferential requirements in the specifications, which would benefit the defendant’s company with which he intended to include in the procedure the submission by the defendant of other offers with a higher price than that of the company with which he intended to win the procedure.
In the case, the prosecutors instituted security measures on the bank accounts belonging to the defendant Stănculescu Cătălin Liviu to guarantee the special confiscation of the sum of 13,000 euros.
In the file, investigations are also being carried out against two other natural persons for committing crimes of forgery in documents under private signature.
The two defendants were informed of the procedural quality and the charges, in accordance with the provisions of art. 309 Criminal Procedure Code.
In the case, the prosecutors proposed a preventive arrest for a period of 30 days regarding the defendant Stănculescu Cătălin Liviu, to be referred to the rights and liberties judge of the Bucharest Court.
Previously, on April 25, 2024, as a result of obtaining legal authorizations from the competent court, house searches were carried out in 7 locations located within the radius of the city of Bucharest and the counties of Sibiu, Gorj, Ilfov and Dolj, one of which is the seat of a commercial companies with majority state capital, the rest representing the residences of individuals.
In the case, DNA prosecutors benefited from support from the General Anti-corruption Directorate – Giurgiu and Covasna County Services.
