The Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, was Monday accused of corruption in connection with some alleged crimes committed while he was a lawyer, he announced the anti-corruption prosecutor.
Prosecutors also seized part of the assets of the Social Democratic prime minister to restore economic prejudice, if found guilty, the same source added.
Ponta, 42, came on Monday morning at the headquarters of the Anti-Corruption (DNA) Prosecutor to testify before prosecutors. According to judicial sources, he refused to answer questions and said he was awaiting the findings of an accounting financial expertise requested by the DNA.
The prime minister is accused of “17 offenses of counterfeiting documents, complicity in tax evasion and bleaching “in deeds that date back to 2007-2011, when Ponta was a lawyer.
Prosecutors accuse him of having received the equivalent of 55,000 euros from a relative Dan Sova, who also was a lawyer at the time, who allegedly signed a collaboration. To justify this amount received in monthly installments, supposedly drafted 17 bills in 2011 attesting to have worked, falsely, to the law firm of Sova.
Ponta was also accused of conflict of interest in exercise of his duties as prime minister for appointing Sova minister twice, in 2012 and 2014.
However, the DNA could not initiate investigations against him for this case, since the Romanian Parliament dominated by the leftist coalition of Ponta rejected lift his immunity.
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