Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu and Liviu Luca were summoned yesterday at the General Prosecutors' Office, of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, to be presented with the criminal case concerning "Petromservice".

Last month, at the request of the prosecutors, Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu provided statements in that case, in which he was investigated together with the former managers of the company, for the looting of "Petromservice", as the losses caused through controlled bankruptcy exceed 83 million Euros. Besides, on July 19th, prosecutors of the Prosecution and Forensics of the Prosecutors' Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice was informed by Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu that it has decided to begin prosecution against him for money laundering.

In November 2011, Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu and Liviu Luca were arrested for 24 hours, being charged with embezzlement, to the detriment of "Petromservice" SA, and money laundering. According to the prosecutors, the controlled bankruptcy of the company caused it to lose 83,163,165 Euros and affected 72,000 members of the employee union of the company. At the time, the prosecutors froze the accounts, and seized 83 properties owned by the two men (46 plots of land, five apartments, hotels, restaurants, retail areas, an 8-floor building), cars and boats. In this case, on November 8th, 2011, the Court of Bucharest also issued an arrest warrant for the Moldovan businessman Octavian Ţurcan, the former general manager of "Petromservice" Gheorghe Şupeală, the former CFO of "Petromservice" Zizi Anagnostopol, Prahova businessman Mihai Sorin, Mihai Viorel Râmboacă, Răzvan Florin Râmboacă, Daniela Braşoveanu and Ioan Bohâlţeanu, being charged with embezzlement, complicity to embezzlement and money laundering. They were released one week later, following a decision of the Court of Appeal of Bucharest, which ruled that they should be investigate