Chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, said on Thursday, in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office, that he came to this institution to ask for the speeding up of computer search or for the return of goods, claiming that „probably” they are trying to obtain testimonies through „pressure on witnesses”.

„I am going to make a request for the speeding up of computer search or for the return of goods, because at the moment the Prosecutor General’s Office has simply committed a crime. For two weeks they have been holding some goods and practice says that they will hold them for two to three months, and they create inconveniences, they create anxiety, nervousness, they probably hope to get witnesses by this kind of pressure on witnesses,” Simion said.

The AUR leader added that there is no evidence against him, said that he did not encourage anyone to forge signatures and claimed that he has information that he will be „picked up” by other „structures of the Prosecutor’s Office”.

Several members of the AUR party were brought to the Prosecutor General’s Office on 5 June to be heard in the case in which the party’s leader, George Simion, is under investigation for instigating the forgery of signatures for Silvestru Sosoaca’s candidacy for the European Parliament.

The Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal case file on the forging of the list of signatures for Silvestru Sosoaca’s candidacy as an independent for the European Parliament elections.

According to judicial sources, Silvestru Sosoaca would have been helped by AUR leader George Simion to forge those signatures.

AGERPRES