Prosecution Office closes file on conflict of interest case against Liberal leader Iohannis

Prosecutors of the General Prosecution Office closed the file in which National Liberal Party (PNL) leader Klaus Iohannis was charged by the National Integrity Agency (ANI) with conflict of interest in administrative and criminal matters.

The representatives of the General Prosecution Office told AGERPRES on Friday that the file involving Klaus Iohannis was closed by prosecutors on Sept. 18, 2014.

In August 2013, ANI notified the General Prosecution Office and requested Iohannis' arrest for conflict of interest.

According to the Agency, Iohannis on Dec. 23, 2010 signed a service contract sealed between the Sibiu City Hall and SC Tipografia Honterus SRL, a company owned by the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR).

Klaus Iohannis has served as FDGR chairman between 2002 and 2013.

ANI claimed that the object of the contract Klaus Iohannis signed by breaking the legal regime of the administrative and criminal conflict of interest, was represented by information and publicity services aimed at implementing the Project (SMIS code: 4915) funded from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the operational programme Increase of Economic Competitiveness 2007-2013, the priority axis 3 "Information and Communication Technology for Private and Public Sectors."

ANI has notified the General Prosecution Office about Iohannis having allegedly committed the conflict of interest crime, stipulated by Art. 253 (paragraph 1) of the Criminal Code.AGERPRES