Florian Coldea, former first deputy to the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) director, has been placed under judicial control on bail by the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), judicial sources told AGERPRES on Friday.

Coldea left the DNA headquarters on Friday after more than 15 hours of hearings, refusing to make statements to journalists.

Former SRI general Dumitru Dumbrava and lawyer Doru Traila were also placed under judicial control.

Businessman Catalin Hideg, who denounced former SRI generals Florian Coldea and Dumitru Dumbrava to the DNA, said on Thursday, in an intervention on Antena 3 private television broadcaster, that they had asked him, through lawyer Doru Traila, the sum of 600,000 euros to help him obtain a suspended sentence, in a case in which he has a first instance sentence of 4 years in prison for fraud with European funds.

Catalin Hideg, the owner of Sanimed International, was sentenced in February by the Bucharest Court to four years in prison for using false documents and money laundering, in a case linked to fraud with European funds worth three million euros.

The case is currently under appeal to the Bucharest Court of Appeal.

AGERPRES