Publication date: 27.10.2023 22:00
Dragoș Adrian Iorga, executive director of the Ministry of Investments and European Projects. Photo: Facebook/ Dragos Iorga
DNA prosecutors arrested Dragoș Adrian Iorga, executive director of the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, on Friday, accused of asking for a commission from the salary of some women he employed in the position.
Iorga is accused of taking bribes in a continuous form and using information that is not intended for advertising or allowing unauthorized persons access to this information, in a continuous form.
According to the prosecutors, “at the beginning of 2021, Iorga would have “helped” two people (by illegally submitting the correct subjects and answers) to fill, through a competition, two positions within a project carried out by the Regional Intermediate Body Bucharest Ilfov, an institution located in subordinated to the Ministry of Investments and European Projects”.
“In exchange for these “services”, the defendant allegedly demanded from the two persons (witnesses in question) 1,500 lei each month, from the date of receipt of the first salary until November 30, 2023 (the date of completion of the project), aspects with which the two people would have agreed. In both cases, the defendant would have made his claims known by presenting each of the two people with an A4 sheet on which the following would have been printed: “5500 net salary, 4000 lei in your account, 1500 in another account, contract duration 30.11 .2023”, according to the prosecutors.
According to the “agreement”, starting from April 2021, Iorga would have received, approximately, from one of the witnesses the total sum of 45,000 lei (the last payment would have been made in October 2023), and from the other 38,200 lei (the last payment would have been made in May 2023, when the witness decided not to do so).
The sums of money that would have been “due” to the defendant would have been remitted to him most of the time by bank transfer, but there would have been situations in which the respective persons would have left his salary card which, after who would have withdrawn the amount of money initially established, would have returned it the next day to the beneficiary, according to prosecutors.
“Previously, during the day of October 27, 2023, as a result of obtaining legal authorizations from the competent court, house searches were carried out in two locations (the defendant’s residence and his office), located within the radius of the city of Bucharest, on which occasion they were seized by the prosecutors, among others, the following: 174,600 lei, 10,000 dollars and 11,000 euros, gold bars with a total weight of 65.2 grams, as well as the bank cards, related to the accounts opened by the witness, in which the sums of money were allegedly transferred as a bribe”, says the DNA.
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