Former Romanian Transport Minister charged with complicity in abuse of office

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors asked on Friday, march 13, for the Parliament’s approval to arrest and prosecute former Transport Minister Dan Sova, for three charges of complicity in abuse of office. Sova is currently a senator of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The prosecutors are investigating Sova for the contracts his law firm carried out with the Romanian energy companies Turceni and Rovinari between 2007 and 2009. Prosecutors said that Sova submitted several false documents to prove his innocence, reports local Mediafax. He also destroyed his law firm’s hard disks, in 2010, to hide the email correspondence between his law firm and the two energy companies’ management. Starting 2012, Dan Sova was minister in charge of strategic projects in Victor Ponta’s cabinet. He was then named minister of transport, but he resigned from this position in June 2014, to take charge of Victor Ponta’s presidential campaign. editor@romania-insider.com