Former director of the National Agency for Land Improvements (ANIF) – Galaţi Branch and former chief commissioner of the Galaţi Environmental Guard, Sorin Dănăilă was sent to court by the DNA for taking bribes and using information that is not intended for publicity. Along with his name, the file also includes that of a company administrator, accused in his turn of having bribed to carry out works without complying with legal procedures.
The facts referred to by the anti-corruption prosecutors allegedly happened three years ago, when Sorin Dănăilă was director of the Galați branch of ANIF. The head of Land Improvements would not have followed the procedures regarding the awarding of modernization and maintenance works of the networks he was managing and would have negotiated directly with a company specialized in the field, to which he would have awarded the contracts and, implicitly, the related funds. All in exchange for a “commission” that the de facto administrator of the company, also a defendant in the case, would have paid him.
“In the period from May 19 to September 30, 2021, the defendant Dănăilă Sorin, in the capacities mentioned above, would have accepted the promise of undue benefits and would have received from the defendant CI the total amount of 134,821 lei, in connection with the fulfillment of some documents that included Concretely, in exchange for the respective benefits, the defendant Dănăilă Sorin allegedly ensured that the National Land Improvement Agency – Galati Territorial Branch concluded through negotiation, without the prior publication of a participation notice, with Societatea Hidraconstruct Geovig SRL several contracts for the execution of maintenance and repair works in the land improvement facilities and would have approved the payment of the invoices related to the works executed by Societatea Hidraconstruct Geovig SRL”, says the DNA press release, through which the investigators announced the completion of the investigations and the referral to court, at the Galati Court, of the corruption case.
Along with the accusations of bribery, Dănăilă is also targeted by the suspicions of providing, to the administrator of the respective company, some information that, as director of ANIF, he should not have divulged.
“The defendant Dănăilă Sorin allegedly transmitted to the businessman information that was not intended for publicity, contained in documents drawn up within the National Land Improvement Agency during the planning/preparation stage of the public procurement. For the “help” granted in the above manner , the defendant Dănăilă Sorin would have received the total sum of 134,821 lei, which would have been disguised as payment for some licit commercial relations, concluded between two commercial companies controlled by the two defendants”, the investigators also showed.
The DNA ordered the seizure of a building belonging to Sorin Dănăilă, a measure intended to ensure the recovery of the damage in case it was not voluntarily covered.
Dănăilă, head of the long run
The liberal Sorin Dănăilă has been involved in the management of several institutions in Galați, in recent years, his name being linked not only to the headship of ANIF, but also to that of the Galați Environmental Guard, at the head of which he was appointed and remained for 16 months . Related to this position, he was the protagonist of a scandal two years ago, when he had a violent conflict, in the headquarters of the Environmental Guard, with commissioner Daniel Tudorache, former sub-prefect and former head of the institution.
The two later denied the physical altercation, although it had reached the police. Dănăilă held the position of Environment until October last year, when Liliana Cornea was appointed in his place.
