The High Court of Cassation and Justice definitively ordered, on Tuesday, the termination of the criminal trial against former minister Elena Udrea in the Hidroelectrica case, in which she is accused of influence peddling and money laundering, in connection with the amount of 5 million dollars she allegedly received from the businessman Bogdan Buzaianu.

The same solution was ordered in the case of journalist Dan Andronic, accused of perjury.

The statute of limitations of the facts in this file has been established since the trial of the file on the merits at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, in April 2023.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected the appeals filed by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and Elena Udrea, upholding the decision of the trial court regarding the termination of the criminal trial.

On the other hand, Elena Udrea must pay the sum of 3.4 million euros.

Elena Udrea is in the Targsor penitentiary, where she is serving a 6-year sentence received in the Gala Bute case.

AGERPRES