The Tony Blair file has been classified by DNA, according to the classification order consulted by G4Media.ro. In this case, former Prime Minister Victor Ponta and former Deputy Sebastian Ghiță have been indicted by DNA Ploiești since 2016 for using the influence of a party leader to obtain undue advantages and money laundering. The two were even placed under judicial control.
DNA Ploiești said former PSD chairman Victor Ponta would use his authority as party leader to put his friend, Ploiesti businessman Sebastian Ghiţă, in a suitable seat in the parliamentary elections of the 2012. Instead, he would have received a sponsorship of 220,000 euros for bringing former British Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair to Romania. Thus, the former leader of the PSD would have benefited from electoral capital financed with black money.
Former premier Victor Ponta reacted, via a message on Facebook, regarding the filing of the file, saying that after 6 years of “humiliation and lies, the file was closed”:
- “After 6 years of humiliations and lies, the” Ponta – Blair “file has also been closed. I am happy that in Romania, after so many years, some justice can still be done. Of course, Orange and the bosses who have it installed are fine; of course no one gives me back my 6 years; nor will any of those who cursed me on this subject apologize. But what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger! PS – for seals still looking for something to damn, the ranking has NOTHING to do with the recipe, only with the fact that Portocală’s accusations were simply aberrant, a “school” case of a political file! “.
UPDATE at 13:45
Why was the file closed?
Public minister Gheorghe Meuse argued that it has not been proven that former prime minister and PSD leader Victor Ponta asked Sebastian Ghiță to sponsor the PSD in exchange for obtaining an alternate seat on the PSD slates in December 2012.
<In this case, nor in the indictment, nor does the evidence reveal factual evidence supporting the version of the use of influence given by the position held by the defendant Ponta Victor Viorel.
Therefore, both Sebastian Ghiță Aurelian and Victor Viorel Ponta were candidates in 2012 for the position of deputy in the Romanian parliament, as there is no data to prove it, the quality of the president of the PSD acquired in 2010, not generating a report on inequality from the point of view of potential of influence between the defendant and the person over whom the influence is exercised.
The defendant Sebastian Aurelian Ghiță was the owner of the Asesoft group of companies, as of 23.10.2011 he was the owner of the television channel Romania TV and had an estimated fortune of 90-100 million euros, there being no evidence that there is any relationship between him and the accused Ponta Victor Viorel inequality or subordination.
Also, the defendant Ponta Victor Viorel cannot be considered to have obtained an undue advantage consisting in “gaining electoral capital by bringing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Romania” or “increasing the electoral capital of the PSD”.
The electoral capital allegedly obtained through media coverage of the meetings between Ponta Victor Viorel and Tony Blair is not quantifiable and cannot be considered an improper non-pecuniary advantage. Furthermore, the funding or sponsorship of media impact events by candidates for elected positions in the Romanian state has not been and is not punishable by law, as long as it is carried out in compliance with the provisions of the law and in conditions that guarantee transparency >>the prosecutor Gheorghe Moța motivated the classification solution.
Other facts have been prescribed
“With regard to the material documents for which the ordinance of 09.09.2020 has ordered the extension of the object of use of influence or authority by a person who holds a managerial position in a party, in a union or patronage or within a legal person with no patrimonial purpose, in order to obtain for oneself or for others, money, goods or other undue benefits (…) consisting of the material acts committed in relation to:
– the contracts concluded by SC Federal Media Partner SRL, in the period 2013-2015, with SC Cat Music SRL, concerning the “exclusive right of use, in the PSD Electoral Campaign, of the musical piece” We feel the same “, of the contracts n. (…) stipulated by SC Federal Media Partner SRL with the Social Democratic Party, of the contracts stipulated by SC Federal Media Partner SRL with SC Politic Blueprint SRL (…), with the Chinese companies Yiwu Tempy Import – Export Co. Ltd, Yantian Industrial Co. Limited and Nanchang Guanqiu Clothing Co Limited, with APCQ Worldwide LTD – Great Britain, with the American company Podesta Group INC, with the American company 270 Strategies, with the German company Pfluger Internationale Beratung – Berlin and with the Israeli company ESBR Consulting LTD.
– the contract stipulated in 2012 by SC Mediata Consulting SRL with SC Gaco Com SRL, concerning the purchase of the quantity of 97,020 pans, as well as
– the contracts concluded by SC Media Fantasy Solution SRL, in the period 2012 – 2013. with EMF Conseils et Participations – Paris (…), SC Politic Blueprint SRL, SC Gaco Com SRL,
prosecution cannot be initiated since the case of prevention of the initiation and exercise of the criminal action pr. of art. 16 par. 1 lit. f), because on the date of the extension of the criminal action, by order of 09.09.2020, the limitation period had expired (…)
Thus, the prev. of art. 13 of Law no. 78/2000 is punished with imprisonment from 1 to 5 years. The statute of limitations for criminal liability is 5 years when the law provides for imprisonment not exceeding 5 years for the crime committed.
Although the order of extension of the criminal investigation refers to the contracts concluded by SC Federal Media Partner SRL, in the period 2013 – 2015 the period we can refer to is 2012 – 2014, respectively the electoral campaign for the parliamentary and presidential elections. of 9.2 .2012 (2 November – 16 November 2014), so that the prescription relating to the offense prev. of art. 13 of Law no. 78/2000 had expired at the end of 2019“, reads the classification order signed by the Dna prosecutor Gheorghe Moța.
