The businessman Sergiu Bahaian, suspect of having commissioned the murder of four persons in Constanta County, was arrested preventively yesterday for 30 days, the decision being made by Constanta Tribunal. Bahaian is charged with instigation to qualified murder and instigation to particularly serious murder, in the case of Ionel Ulezu and Petrica Captalan, and with setting up an organized criminal group and fraud. “Further to the action started on January 16 by the prosecutors from the Division on investigation of organized crime and terrorism – Constanta Territorial Office, DIICOT prosecutors proposed the court, on February 5, to take the measure of preventive arrest of the defendant Sergiu Bahaian for a period of 30 days,” DIICOT shows in a press release remitted on Monday to the media. Bahaian is investigated for the perpetration of the offences stipulated by art. 7 of Law 39/2003 “consisting of the fact that, at the end of 2007, together with Slepac Valentin, he initiated an organized criminal group, to which Marculescu Edward Marian, Iovan Dan Liviu, Grigoras Adrian, Leonte Emilian, Ulezu Ionel and Captalan Petrica subsequently adhered, with the purpose to obtain illegally important material benefits by defrauding several commercial companies on the occasion of the conclusion and execution of leasing contracts.”

Bahaian is also charged with fraud. Together with Iovan Dan Liviu, Slepac Valentin, Ulezu Ionel, Marculescu Edward Marian and Captalan Petrica, during March-May 2008, using unreal names and the mendacious quality of representative of SC Transrom Prest SRL Constanta, Bahaian has allegedly misled six leasing companies on the occasion of the conclusion of several leasing contracts referring to a Komatsu frontal loader, producing a total prejudice of EUR 501,480 and RON 340,189.32. Bahaian filed a recourse which will be judged by Constanta Court of Appeal. On Thursday, Sergiu Bahaian’s lawyer requested DIICOT Constanta prosecutors, both for his client and for Valentin Slepac, to perform psychiatric expert assessments and to test the two with the lie detector.

Sergiu Bahaian had been sentenced, on December 2, 1998, to five years in prison for forgery.

According to investigators, in his capacity as sole associate and administrator of SC Sabina Product SRL, Bahaian had misled around 5,000 persons, cashing illegally over ROL 7 bln. In October 2002, Bahaian was paroled.