PDL leader regrets he promoted Mihail Boldea

The PDL Galaţi Mircea Toader declared that when he nominated Deputy Mihail Boldea as candidate in Parliament, he verified if Boldea is investigated within any case, taking into account that “in the city were rumors regarding his activity”.

According to Mircea Toader, in that moment there wasn’t any clue that would show the fact that Mihail Boldea was investigated or prosecuted.

Mircea Toader added that then, Mihail Boldea “was a young advocate with potential”, but now he regrets he promoted him.

Another local leader of the government party who declared himself surprised by the evolution of Boldea’s case is the Prime-vice-president of PDL Galaţi, Iulian Aramă.

He states that while Boldea was a PDL member, “he did not hear anything regarding suspect real estates”.

“I trusted him; he helped me a few times with some advice regarding legal issues. He is a very intelligent man”, declared Iulian Aramă.

Cited at National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA)

The deputy Mihail Boldea is investigated for fraud and crime establishing which would have produced a loss of over one million Euros.

The prosecution sustains that Mihail Boldea is integrated within an organized crime group, composed by 22 persons, next to an advocate from the Bar Lawyers Galaţi and an ex arbitrator from the Court of Arbitration Galaţi, who were dealing with frauds within the real estate field.

The Chamber of Deputies has approved, Tuesday, through secret vote, the demand for domiciliary search, seizure and arrest of Deputy Mihail Boldea (ex PDL).

According to Directorate for the Investigation Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), Mihail Boldea would have left the country Wednesday through the checkpoint Giurgiu.

“On March 18 Boldea has embarked from the Ataturk Airpor, from where he left for an unknown destination, so far”, declared the head of DIICOT, Codruţ Olaru.

The general prosecutor, Laura Kovesi, has declared that deputy Boldea has legally left the country “taking advantage of a legal vacuum”.

“The prosecutors were helpless; they acted within the existent legal framework”, also declared Codruţa Kovesi.

The USA ambassador at Bucharest, Mark Gitenstein, declared Thursday that Boldea’s situation could demonstrate “the problems of granting a broad immunity”, especially within the case of parliamentarians.

He specified that he is for granting a restricted immunity, limited only at politics declarations.

The politic activity of Mihail Boldea

At 36 years old, Deputy Mihail Boldea obtained the parliamentarian mandate in 2008, standing for PDL side, on the Uninominal College 9 from Galaţi County.

Mihail Boldea has obtained the PDL deputy mandate, although his contra-candidate –Aurel Nechita (Social-Democratic Party) –had obtained more votes in the College 9, but the redistribution of mandates at national level has been favorable to Boldea.

Before the parliamentarian election, Mihail Boldea had entered into Democratic Party (PD) in 2003, and since 2004 he was the leader of Youth Organization.

Although his contra-candidate from PSD, Aurel Nechita, had obtained more votes, Boldea had entered into the Parliament due to the score obtained by PDL.

In October 2011, he quitted PDL, signing up within the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR), party in which he has declared that he activates, sustaining press conferences and showing on the parliamentary cabinet office a “mash” with the signs of UNPR.

On March 16 2012, both the central management of UNPR and the local leader UNPR have declared that Mihail Boldea has never been integrated within this politic group.

The deputy’s fortune

According to his fortune declaration, Mihail Boldea owns 4 apartments and a house, an agricultural land, an incorporated area one, 2 wrist-watches of which one is a Baumercier of 12,000 Euros and a Longines of 6,000 Euros.

He also possesses two paintings signed by Simion Mărculescu, worthing 5,000 Euros.

Also, within his bank accounts he owns 110,000 euros and 60,000 lei.

The same declaration also specifies that Mihail Boldea accorded three loans: 25,000 Euros, 70,000 Euros and 175,000 Euros, but also that he has to pay other dues, among which the biggest is of 500,000 Euros, borrowed from his elder brother, Ștefan, in 2007.

Also to his elder brother, George Ștefan, Mihail Boldea has donated on April 13 and respectively 15 2011 three from his own apartments, because in 2010, the deputy hadn’t have only four apartments, but seven.

In fact, also in 2008, the politician has sold to his brother George Ștefan an apartment with four rooms for 60,000 Euros.

Mihail Boldea has another two dues to Raiffaisen-Bank –one of 45,000 Euros (mature in 2040) and another one of 55000 Swiss francs (mature in 2014).

The fortune declaration from 2011 also shows that Mihail Boldea has gained 52,054 lei from the parliamentarian allowance and 13,812 lei and 284 lei, as an university assistant at two universities from Galaţi –the private one, Danubius, and the state one, Dunărea de Jos.

Translated by Alexandra- Diana Mircea

MTTLC, Bucharest University