Property restoration agency heads investigated by anticorruption prosecutors

Prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) took into custody on Monday Ingrid Popa Mocanu, a former vice president of the Central Committee for Damage Settlement (CCSD), one of the suspects in a criminal investigation on the National Agency for Property Restoration (ANRP). She is accused of three counts of office abuse perpetrated between June 26, 2008 and March 6, 2009, while she was in office.

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Horia Georgescu, the head of the National Integrity Agency, was also taken into custody in the same case earlier on Monday.

Ingrid Zaarour, a former president of the CCSD, has been placed under judiciary control in the same case, judiciary sources disclosed to AGERPRES. Charges against her allegedly include three counts of office abuse during her October 1 2007 ? February 4, 2009 term in office.

"I did nothing [wrong], these are evaluators' acts. I did not cause any prejudice in this case," Popa Mocanu told reporters upon being escorted from the DNA to the arrest facility of the Bucharest Police, where she will wait for a court ruling on the prosecutors' request to arrest her pending trial.

The aforementioned sources say the lesser preventive measure against Zaarour is owed to some health problems she documented. AGERPRES