The former deputy Cristian Boureanu was left without a driver’s license and was fined, after he was caught drunk driving on DN1, on Valea Prahova. The policemen stopped him in traffic as he had made an irregular overtaking. He asked for blood samples to be taken to determine the blood alcohol level.
Cristian BoureanuPhoto: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The traffic policemen from Prahova stopped Cristian Boureanu, on Wednesday, in the area of the town of Comarnic, after he made an irregular overtaking, reports News.ro.
“In the afternoon of March 15 this year, at around 5:15 p.m., the police officers from the Prahova Road Service while performing their duties on DN1, in the town of Comarnic, stopped a 50-year-old man for control from the municipality of Bucharest, who would have performed an irregular overtaking maneuver. The driver was tested with the breathalyzer, the result being 0.11 mg/l of pure alcohol in the exhaled air, later the man requested the collection of biological blood samples”, said officials of the Prahova County Police.
Judicial sources confirmed for News.ro that the driver is former parliamentarian Cristian Boureanu.
He was fined 2,175 lei and his driver’s license was suspended for 150 days.
Cristian Boureanu has a conviction for insult, after, being drunk, he hit a traffic policeman
Six years ago, former deputy Cristian Boureanu was the protagonist of a violent incident with a crew from the Traffic Police. He was then sent to court for committing three insult crimes.
According to the prosecutors, on June 9, 2017, around 01:30, the car in which Cristian Boureanu was, together with his girlfriend, was stopped in traffic by a traffic police crew on bd. Aviators from the Capital.
When the police asked for his identity documents, Boureanu became violent, threatened a policeman and grabbed the fingers of his right hand by closing the car door, tore his uniform shirt and hit him with his knee in the groin area, provoking and traumatic injuries. The policeman reacted and hit Boureanu, who fell to the ground.
Boureanu was immobilized, handcuffed and taken to the headquarters of the Road Brigade for investigation. Being in an advanced state of intoxication, Boureanu was hurt, and he was then transported to the Floreasca Hospital.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, being heard as a witness, Boureanu’s friend, Laura Teodora Dincă, made false statements and created a favorable situation for the former deputy.
The court’s explanation for giving him a suspended sentence: He apologized after his drunkenness passed
In May 2019, Cristian Boureanu was definitively sentenced by the Bucharest Court of Appeal to one year and nine months in prison with suspension for committing the crime of insult, in the case in which he was accused of hitting a traffic policeman.
Initially, Boureanu received, at the 1st District Court, a sentence of two years and two months with suspension, a sentence that was reduced by the Bucharest Court of Appeal to one year and nine months in prison with suspension.
CAB also decided that Boureanu should spend two years under the supervision of the Bucharest Probation Service, during which he must also perform unpaid work for the benefit of the community.
The CAB also upheld the decision on the civil side, by which Boureanu was obliged to pay 7,000 euros in moral damages to the policeman Andrei Ovidiu.
In the decision made by the 1st District Court, the court showed that Boureanu received a suspended sentence because he behaved normally and apologized after the effects of his drunkenness passed.
Thus, in justifying the decision, the judge who dealt with this case considered that it would be “excessive” to impose a prison sentence, claiming that, through the surveillance measures applied by the court, Boureanu “will adjust his behavior in the future”.
Cristian Boureanu was also involved in an incident in September 2016, when he assaulted his daughter on the street, being investigated for mistreatment of the minor.
Cristian Boureanu is also currently on trial in a corruption case, in which he received a 4-year and 3-month prison sentence last year, in the first instance.
