Prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) – Cluj Territorial Service ordered the indictment, without being detained, of two business people who caused damage to the European Union budget of over 10 million lei.

„The prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate – Cluj Territorial Service have ordered the indictment, without being detained, of the defendants: C.T.F., a businessman, for committing the offenses of tax evasion in a continuous form, attempt to obtain unlawfully certain sums of money as reimbursements from the state budget, use or presentation of false, inaccurate or incomplete documents or statements, if the act results in obtaining unlawfully or wrongfully withholding European funds, with particularly serious consequences, in a continuous form, money laundering in a continuous form, and T.V.F., the representative of a commercial company, for the commission of the offense of complicity to the use or submission of false, inaccurate or incomplete documents or statements, if the act results in unjustly obtaining European funds, with particularly serious consequences, in a continued form,” reads a DNA statement sent on Friday.

Insurance measures were ordered.

The National Agency for Tax Administration has joined the case as claimant.

The Ministry of European Investments and Projects did not communicate, at the request of the criminal prosecution authorities, until the finalisation of the case, whether it is a claimant in the case.

The case was sent to the Cluj Court, with a proposal to maintain the insurance measures ordered in the case.

AGERPRES