On Monday, the magistrates rejected the request for parole made by the former policeman Cristian Cioacă, after he actually served more than half of the 15 years and 8 months in prison he received in 2014 for the murder of his wife, lawyer Elodia Ghinescu.
“Rejects the request for conditional release made by the petitioner convicted CCC, CNP …, currently detained at the Mioveni Penitentiary, as unfounded,” states the decision of the Pitesti Court, which is not final and can be appealed.
According to judicial sources, on January 11, a commission from the Mioveni Penitentiary, the place where the former policeman is imprisoned, rejected his request for parole, and the former policeman contested the commission’s decision at the Pitesti Court, the first term being set for Monday.
On June 19, 2014, the Pitesti Court of Appeals definitively sentenced Cristian Cioacă to 15 years and 8 months in prison with execution and five years of disqualification, in the case in which he was tried for the murder of his wife, lawyer Elodia Ghinescu. Initially, at the trial court, he received a sentence of 22 years in prison.
According to the indictment drawn up by the prosecutors, on the night of August 29 to 30, 2007, against the background of pre-existing conflictual relationships related to an imminent divorce generated by the alleged extramarital affairs of the spouses, while they were in the matrimonial bedroom, the discussions degenerated, a context in which police officer Cristian Cioacă inflicted multiple blows on his wife, Elodia Ghinescu, resulting in her death.
The investigators claim that on the night of the crime, the couple’s minor child was in the apartment where the two spouses lived.
“In the following days, the defendant carried out a series of activities designed to ensure the avoidance of criminal liability. Thus, in a first phase, he collected in polyethylene bags all objects visible or potentially bearing traces of blood, produced during the aggression or when overtaking or transporting the body in order to hide it, and threw them into a ravine located 4.6 km from Poiana Braşov in the direction of Râşnov, where they were found on 8.10.2007. Since the washing operations of the traces of blood on the surface of the common wall between the master bedroom and the related bathroom were not satisfactory (from the perspective of the on-site investigation that would take place in the next period in the apartment), the defendant covered the areas with the highest concentration of blood traces with an additional layer of glue and one of washable paint. At the same time, he installed a new shower curtain in the bathroom belonging to the bedroom”, said the prosecutors.
The prosecutor’s office also claims that, after the date of September 2, 2007, Cristian Cioacă carried out an “extensive operation to manipulate the people in his entourage and his wife, presenting to everyone he came into contact with the evidence found on that date by a witness on the computer to the Cioacă-Ghinescu family, regarding the extramarital relationship of the victim and the vacation he spent together with another person in Dubai’.
According to the prosecutors, the purpose of this approach was to ensure a current of opinion unfavorable to the victim, which would have justified the hypothesis of a voluntary departure from home and diverting attention from the essential aspect, namely the version of her killing by the policeman.
After undertaking all these steps, on September 5, 2007, Cristian Cioacă officially announced the disappearance of his wife.
