Sebastian Ghiță

Sebastian Ghiță
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
2012–2016
Personal details
Born (1978-11-10) 10 November 1978 (age 45)
Ploiești, Prahova County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Political partyUnited Romania Party (since 2016)
Other political
affiliations		Social Democratic Party (until 2016)
Alma materPetroleum-Gas University of Ploiești

Sebastian Aurelian Ghiță (born 10 November 1978) is a Romanian businessman and politician. He is the owner of Asesoft Group and of România TV news channel.[1]

Early life

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Ghiță was born on November 10, 1978, in Ploiești, and, in 1997, at 18 years of age, he founded the Asesoft Company. He graduated from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești in 2002.[2]

Political activity

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A close partner of Victor Ponta,[3][4] Ghiță joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and was elected in the Chamber of Deputies in 2012.[5]

He left the Social Democratic Party in 2016 and founded, together with former PSD deputy Bogdan Diaconu, the United Romania Party (PRU).[6][7][8] He was a candidate for PRU at the 2019 European Parliament election in Romania, but he failed to win a seat.[9]

Controversies

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In 2002, he was sued in the file „Tracia – Asesoft”, being accused of complicity in cheating and false statements, in connection with several oil transactions that led to the prejudice of the state budget by 20 billion old lei.[10] On March 3, 2016, the Bucharest Court of Appeal definitively found the intervention of the prescription in this case, Sebastian Ghiță escaping the accusations.[10][11][12]

He is criminally investigated in several cases being accused of money laundering, use of confidential information, ditching, bribery, buying influence, driving without a license, driving without a license, and he was granted bail of 13 million euros.[13]

In September 2016, Sebastian Ghiță self-denounced at the Prosecutor's Office: "I participated in the elaboration of the expert report on the doctoral thesis of Codruța Kovesi".[14][15]

Sebastian Ghiță, who is under judicial control and is banned from leaving Romania, was last seen in public on Monday evening, December 19, 2016, at a SRI balance sheet meeting with parliamentarians who were part of the Parliament's Control Commission.[16] A week after this disappearance, at the television station owned by Sebastian Ghiță, Romania TV, a series of undated recordings began to be broadcast, recordings in which he brought serious accusations against the chief prosecutor of the DNA, Laura Codruta Kovesi, and SRI General Florian Coldea. The latter was dismissed following the disclosures.

On 14 April 2017, Serbian and Romanian authorities announced the detention of Sebastian Ghita by the Belgrade police. After a month and a half he was released from pre-trial detention and kept under house arrest for a bail of 200,000 euros.[17]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Avere de 35 de milioane de euro la 24 de ani > EVZ.ro". www.evz.ro. Archived from the original on 2011-04-27.
  2. ^ "Ghita Sebastian-Aurelian".
  3. ^ "RECHIZITORIU Mai mulți martori susțin că Sebastian Ghiță colecta șpăgi pentru campaniile electorale ale PSD și ale lui Victor Ponta / Cum a scăpat Irina Socol de la Siveco de dosar / INTERCEPTĂRI Ce discutau în șoaptă Socol și Ghiță despre procurori și despre ministrul Cristian Ghinea". 21 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Ponta: Nu m-aș duce la premieri să le spun să-l ascundă pe Ghiță". 15 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Biroul Electoral Central (2012)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05.
  6. ^ "Partidul lui Sebastian Ghiță, la braț cu PRM și "Noua Dreaptă"". 27 March 2017.
  7. ^ "PARTIDUL ROMÂNIA UNITĂ PRIN MITĂ • Rise Project".
  8. ^ "Sebastian Ghiţă s-a înscris în PRU: Orice partid şi-l doreşte pe Victor Ponta preşedinte. Bogdan Diaconu: Îl aşteptăm pe Victor Ponta!". 30 August 2016.
  9. ^ "Sebastian Ghiță, fugit în Serbia în 2017, deschide lista candidaților PRU la europarlamentare - HotNews.ro". 10 March 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Patronul RTV, Sebastian Ghiţă, achitat în dosarul Tracia-Asesoft". Archived from the original on 2012-06-16.
  11. ^ "EXCLUSIV Patronul RTV, Sebastian Ghita, a fost achitat pentru înșelăciune, în dosarul Tracia-Asesoft". 14 November 2011.
  12. ^ "Sebastian Ghiţă scapă de dosarul "Tracia-Asesoft"". 3 March 2016.
  13. ^ "Sebastian Ghiță: Verigă între SRI și ruși? | Revista 22". 5 April 2016.
  14. ^ "Sebastian Ghiţă s-a autodenunţat la Parchet:"Am participat la măsluirea raportului de expertiză privind teza de doctorat a Codruţei Kovesi"/ Iohannis: E ciudat/ Ponta: Dacă mă cheamă la Parchet, spun tot ce ştiu/ Reacţia lui Kovesi".
  15. ^ "Motivul pentru care Sebastian Ghiţă a depus un denunț împotriva Laurei Codruţa Kovesi".
  16. ^ "Știri de ultimă oră și ultimele știri online".
  17. ^ "Sebastian Ghita, eliberat din inchisoarea din Belgrad si plasat in arest la domiciliu pentru o cautiune de 200.000 de euro".
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