Mikó case in Romania: Attila Markó Is a Freejack

According to Krónika Online, Attila Markó – MP of the RMDSZ in Romania – , can be arrested, because of accusation of abuse of office in relation to a property case.

However, the House of Representatives approved the requests of the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) in connection to Markó, this lower house denied the withdrawal of the immunity of  the Liberal Democrat Cătălin Teodorescu, who is affected in the same case.

Attila Markó informed his colleagues from RMDSZ about the case in a letter. He stated that he had not even been at the meeting of the restitution board in 2011. For the withdrawal of the immunity of Markó, 171 MPs voted, and 111 voted against it, so he will be the first MP of RMDSZ who will be arrested.

The DNA, however, placed under judicial supervision Teodorescu, whose immunity has not been withdrawn. Faction leader of the PDL group called her to resign. The representative announced that she would resign her party membership and ask the repetition of the immunity vote.

The pre-trial detention can be asked by the competent court, but it can decide so that Markó can defend himself at large, but it also can put him under house arrest.

During the parliamentary session, Árpád Márton, deputy parliamentary leader of RMDSZ denounced the Romanian judiciary and he pointed out in the connection of Markó the voting was about an innocent man who was not even at the ominous meeting. According to him, the „independent” Romanina justic system decided about the re-nationalization of a property, which belonged to the Reformed Church and convicted three people who acted lawfully – referring to the case of the  College of Saint George Szekely Miko. Márton added, that the Romanian system wants to bring back the police state.

The current restitution case against Markó is the same in connection to DNA placed in custody Alina Bica, Attorney General of the Department of Anti- Organized Crime and Anti-Terror (DIICOT).

The case in question occured in 2011, when the restitution board discussed the case of a 13-acre plot in Bucharest, which was required by a businessman named Gheorghe Stelian. Finally, a compensation was awarded, but as it turned out the plot was valued at a multiple of its real value, so the board assessed the amount of the compensation according to it, therefore the state suffered loss.

Markó was not present at the voting in Wednesday, but he did not answered Krónika, but he said he had not beent at that board meeting in 2011. He said that the DNA had not informed him about the case before his arrest. He thinks that the aim of the Mikó and the Bica case is to put and end to the restitutions in Romania.

Attila Markó was born in 1968 in Brasso. He studied at ELTE and he earned lawyer and politologist degrees. He started his political career in RMDSZ and he held various positions. In 2012, he ran as an MP candidate and he got elected.  He was given a 3- year suspended sentence. The Hungarian Reformed Churched stood by Markó and expressed its solidarity.

based on the article of Krónika Online
translated by BA

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Source: http://kronika.ro/