Attack at the top of the DNA

Emanuel Ungureanu, deputy from the USR, requested, yesterday, the National Integrity Agency to verify the wealth of Marius Voineag - the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate. Following an analysis by the USR deputy on the assets declaration of the head of DNA, Emanuel Ungureanu claims that several events in the life of prosecutor Voineag were valued at very large amounts in the assets declaration.

Yesterday, in front of the ANI headquarters, Emanuel Ungureanu said: "The most serious suspicion regarding Mr. Voineag arises in the party area, baptism. Mr. Voineag said that he will deal with the "big fish" at the head of the DNA. It seems to me that he is a "big fish", who throws a wedding or throws a christening party like a wedding. We don't know what the gifts were, we don't know who the people were who came to this party, we don't know how much the table and the dance cost, as they say. Mr. Voineag, in the declaration of assets, declares, in addition to many apartments, many lands, many accounts - Mr. Voineag is a luxury budgeter - he declares a christening party somewhere at 500,000 lei. I ask you, how many of those who have ever had a wedding cost you as much as the christening party of Mr. Voineag, the head of the DNA?"

He also states that the gift of approximately 100,000 euros could be a protection fee from some SRI generals, especially after Marius Voineag refused to continue certain investigations claiming that the respective suspects were not "big fish", or his purpose being searching for relevant names.

Mr. Ungureanu also said: "Mr. Voineag's activity since Iohannis put him at the head of DNA is bizarre. More precisely, Mr. Voineag slammed a file that targeted two big fish, two SRI generals who were suspected of falsely signing some purchases during the pandemic that had not entered the SRI's patrimony. So Mr. Voineag seems to be covering some SRI generals, some big fish. Mr. Voineag talks about that file, in which he removed the prosecutor Lascu, after which he classified him, that he was a bitter corporal and he was looking for big fish. This is my suspicion, that at that baptism party of 100,000 euros it is possible that SRI generals were also on the list. We need to see who gave the gift and whether that gift was not a protection tax. I think ANI can find very interesting things. I ask ANI to do its duty, but not as it did in the case of Dragnea, where it took them three years".

In the notification submitted to ANI, deputy Emanuel Ungureanu mentions that according to an article published by the media, it is mentioned that Voineag owns a watch valued at 17,000 lei and jewelry worth over 5,500 euros, goods which, apparently, do not are included in his last wealth declaration. That information appeared following Marius Voineag's statement in an interview given to Aleph News, in which he stated that he has had the watch for over 2 years.

"It's a watch worth 17,000 lei", was the answer of the head of DNA to journalist Sorina Matei's question about the price of the watch he had on his hand in a TV show broadcast on February 6, 2024. Unfortunately, in his declaration of wealth, at chapter II. 2. the watch discussed in the show is not mentioned.

In the notification submitted to ANI, it is also said that, if the respective information is confirmed, it would represent not only a violation of the legislation on transparency and integrity in public functions, but also an alarm signal regarding the integrity system at the level of some key institutions in the fight against corruption.