All newspapers read about the temporary arrest for 29 days of media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu, Octavian Turcan and Alexandru Stoian, accused that they helped Nicolae Popa escape the country as he had a 15 years of prison sentence. Elsewhere in the news, newspapers reveal conversations that Sorin Ovidiu Vantu had with Nicolae Popa which read that the businessman sent him money regularly.
Evenimentul Zilei reads that media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu, Octavian Turcan and Alexandru Stoian, his driver will remain under temporary arrest for 29 days in the investigation related to the escape of Romanian Nicolae Popa. Bucharest Tribunal judges decided to arrest them for 29 days late last night.
According to Romanian news agency Mediafax, as Vantu heard the sentence, he called "Shame lady, shame!" Prosecutors underlined in the arrest proposal that Vantu has an arrogance towards the judicial system overall.
According to prosecutors, Vantu sent regularly sums of money to Nicolae Popa when he was seeked to be jailed. Popa ran out of the country in 2000 after the FNI business crashed, which left thousands of hundreds of people without their investments.
Romania libera reveals that prosecutors have been on Vantu's back for three years as they tried to prove his connection to Popa. The newspaper reads that the runaway was permanently monitored and the evidence came when Popa took from his accounts 44,500 euro sent by Vantu through third parties.
Prosecutors included stenograms of conversations between Sorin Ovidiu Vantu and Popa later last year which read clearly that Vantu sent him money and it also reveals the methods used to make the transfers.
Prosecutors explained that Vantu, Octavin Turcan and Alexandru Stoica even though they were not allowed to leave the country created a system to communicate with Nicolae
