Investigated for corruption to Prime Minister of Romania – Prensa Latina

June 5, 2015, 10:01 Bucharest, June 5 (PL) The Romanian Prime Minister Viktor Ponta acknowledged today the opening of an investigation against him for alleged corruption, money laundering and complicity to evade the tax authorities after being interrogated in this capital.

 As he left the headquarters of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), the head of Social Democratic government stated that it was the subject of an investigation by the call if Dan Sova, who was named at the time as minister of transport.

DNA officials point out that when Ponta practicing lawyer, advised between 2007 and 2008 for a prosecution Sova energy companies Turcani and Rovinari, said the capital’s television.

Other sources close to the investigation is They referred to a possible indictment for conflict of interest in the case of the Prime Minister, who in turn overcame other corruption trials, before participating in the presidential elections last November.

A request for DNA It was presented to the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) which must rule on whether to continue with the investigation.

Ponta recorded serious contradictions in his time with Traian Basescu when he was in front of the headquarters of the State and now seems to keep the liberal president Klaus Iohannis, who defeated him in a second round of voting in 2014.

Iohannis, former mayor of Sibiu, considered this day that Ponta must leave office, while the opposition Liberal Party announced that prepares a confidence vote in the legislature against the prime minister.

But the Iohannnis faced in his own time an indictment for abuse of power related to a water company in Sibiu, a theme that it emerged during the presidential campaign last November, in which Ponta trying to reach the head of state

pgh / To.