PDL senator Mircea Banias has been indicted by anti-corruption prosecutors on charges of influence peddling. The division for fighting corruption of the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) is investigating the PDL senator of Constanţa, Mircea Banias and the secretary general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Laurenţiu Mironescu, who were both brought in for questioning at the headquarters of the DNA. Mircea Banias and Laurenţiu Mironescu are suspects in a case of tax evasion with oil products brought in the port of Constanţa, as the investigation was started by the Prosecutors" Office of Bucharest, and transferred to the DNA due to the loss, which reached 1 million Euros in two months.

Dozens of searches took place yesterday morning, in Bucharest and Constanţa, which also targeted the home of the secretary general of the Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs Laurenţiu Mironescu. The searches were performed by the border policemen, coordinated by the prosecutors of the DNA. The border policemen also searched the building of the Agigea Sud customs office, as well as the headquarters of Romtrans in the city. Also, the searches targeted the heads of the customs offices of Constanţa and Bucharest, as well as several customs officers and a border policeman of Naval Shipments of Constanţa. The deputy managing director of the Ship Division of the Constanța border police, Adrian Pătraşcu, was brought by the police to the National Anti-corruption Department (DNA), to be heard in this case. All of the above are suspected of being involved in the case that the Border Police has been working on since October 2010, concerning the illegal shipment of contraband goods coming from China in containers, through the ports of the Black Sea.

After the meeting between PM Emil Boc and the Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs Traian Igaş, the secret