Chief corruption prosecutor asks Chamber to approve remanding, pre-trial detention of MPs Voicu,Paun

Chief prosecutor of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi is asking Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea to be notified for the approval of remanding and placing under pre-trial detention of MPs Madalin Voicu and Nicolae Paun. 

Kovesi reportedly submitted to the Prosecution Office with the Supreme Court of Justice and Cassation a request and report about this case so that the justice minister may be notified in order to ask the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies to approve remanding and placing under pre-trial detention of the two MPs. 

Voicu is standing accused of influence peddling, false representations and money laundering, all in a repeated form. 

Paun, who is also chairman of the Pro Europe Roma Party Association, is accused of using or producing in bad faith false, inexact or incomplete statements and documents that allegedly led to misappropriation of European funds; changing the use of European funds in breach of the law, money embezzlement, conducting financial activity as trade deeds incompatible with the office held or conducting financial transactions to procure for self or others ill-gotten gains, influence buying, unduly influencing witnesses, all in a repeated form. AGERPRES