Anti-corruption prosecutors investigate tax officials for failure to enforce confiscation

The National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors opened on their own motion a criminal file on abuse of office to obtain undue advantages and non-observance of a court sentence by employees of the Romania's Tax Authority and of other institutions, and by some convicted individuals. 

"This new criminal case has been opened as that final court rulings have not been enforced in terms of recovery of prejudice caused to the state budget," the DNA mentioned on Tuesday upon AGERPRES's request. 

The National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF) has recently demanded for clarifications from the justices oh the Bucharest Court of Appeals on the practical enforcement of a sentence on prejudice recovery by confiscation, in the criminal case of the ICA Food Research Institute. The ANAF pointed out that counsels of the Voiculescu family have filed several civil lawsuits to block the confiscation of some assets. 

The Bucharest Court of Appeals has decided last week that there is no hindrance for the ANAF to confiscate the real estate acquired through fraudulent privatization of the ICA by Dan Voiculescu, a former Senator and media mogul who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the ICA case. 

He was convicted in August 2014 alongside Gheorghe Mencinicopschi, former general manager of the ICA (eight years in prison), Sorin Pantis, former executive director of one of Voiculescu's companies (seven years), and Corneliu Popa, former general manager of the State Real Estate Administration to eight years. The same sentence established a prejudice of 60 million euros and ordered the confiscation of some real estate of Dan Voiculescu.AGERPRES