Former hospital director, convicted of pandemic offenses

The former manager of Caracal Hospital and former mayor of Liviu Radu's city was sentenced by the Olt Court to a sentence of three years and eight months in prison in a case regarding corruption offenses when he drove the medical unit, according to the solution posted on Friday on the court's website.

The epidemiologist Liviu Radu was mayor of Caracal city between 2016 and 2020 and in Pandemic he was manager of Caracal Hospital.

(…) Condemns the defendant Radu Dumitru Liviu to the main sentence of 1 year imprisonment, for committing the crime of intellectual false, in continuous form (…), at the main punishment of 2 years imprisonment, for committing the crime for the use or presentation of documents or false statements, inaccurate or inaccurate, The European Union or the budgets administered this time, (…), at the main punishment of 2 years and 8 months imprisonment, for committing the crime of abuse in service, if the official obtained for himself or another an undue use, in a continuous form, (…) Based on art. 38 and 39 letter. b Criminal code, merges the penalties established by the present, of 1 year imprisonment, 2 years imprisonment and 2 years and 8 months imprisonment, resulting in the sentence of 3 (three) years and 8 (eight) prison months (consisting of the basic sentence of 2 years and 8 months imprisonment and one third of the sum of the other punishments applied, respectively 1 year imprisonment). 9

The solution can be appealed within 10 days of communication.

In the same case, the former financial director of Caracal Marian Mitran Hospital was sentenced to three years and eight months.

'(…) Condemns the defendant Mitran Marian, to the main sentence of 1 year imprisonment, for committing the crime of intellectual false, in continuous form, (…) at the main punishment of 2 years imprisonment, for committing the crime of complicity in the use or presentation of documents or false statements, or inaccurate, or inaccurate, The budget of the European Union or the budgets administered by this times on its behalf, (…) at the main punishment of 2 years and 8 months imprisonment, for committing the crime of abuse in the service, if the official obtained for himself or for another an undue use. Based on art. 38 and 39 letter. b Criminal code, merges the penalties established by the present, of 1 year imprisonment, 2 years imprisonment and 2 years and 8 months imprisonment, resulting in the sentence of 3 (three) years and 8 (eight) prison months (consisting of the basic sentence of 2 years and 8 months imprisonment and one third of the sum of the other punishments applied, respectively 1 year imprisonment). 6

Liviu Radu and Marian Mitran must be in solidarity 370,000 lei to the Health Insurance House, as well as other amounts to the civil parties in the file.

The manager of the Caracal Municipal Hospital during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Dumitru-Liviu Radu, and the financial director of the same period, Marian Mitran, were sent to court by the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate-Craiova Territorial Service for obtaining European funds through false statements and abuse in the service.

According to a statement of the National Anticorruption Directorate-Craiova Territorial Service, between December 2020-March 2021, in the context of approving support measures settled from European funds, as a result of the spread of Covid-19, the two would have taken several steps to obtain illegally to some European funds, in the form of some risk and subsequently, in the form.

'In accordance with the legal provisions, in force at that time, he could benefit from the risk incentive of all medical, medical-sanitary and auxiliary personnel within the providers of medical services in contractual relations with the health insurance house Covid-19, or if the respective persons were confirmed with Covid-19 following the activity carried out. Specifically, in the above context, the two defendants would have prepared and signed several documents in which data would have been inserted that would not have corresponded to the reality, which they would subsequently submitted to the National Health Insurance House for settlement. These steps would have the result of obtaining unfairly by the Caracal Municipal Hospital of the amount of 740,000 lei from European funds', the DNA statement is mentioned.

The prosecutors also claimed that later from the amount obtained illegally the two would have abusively ordered the payment to 136 persons of undue risk incentives, in a total value of 326,250 lei, and during the same period, in violation of the legal provisions, the manager would not have ordered the risk incentives (in total value 45,000 lei) for 19 persons) for 19 persons to possess them.