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

Early life

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

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 [ro], 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

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 of 2 million 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 was 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, 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 Codruța Kövesi, 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 Ghiță 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

  1. ^ Trandafir, Teodora (October 14, 2009). "Avere de 35 de milioane de euro la 24 de ani". Evenimentul Zilei. Archived from the original on 2011-04-27.
  2. ^ "Ghiță Sebastian-Aurelian". www.cdep.ro.
  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"". Cotidianul (in Romanian). 27 March 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  7. ^ "PARTIDUL ROMÂNIA UNITĂ PRIN MITĂ • Rise Project".
  8. ^ "Sebastian Ghiță s-a înscris în PRU: Orice partid și-l dorește pe Victor Ponta președinte. 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 Ghiță, a fost achitat pentru înșelăciune, în dosarul Tracia-Asesoft". 14 November 2011.
  12. ^ "Sebastian Ghiță scapă de dosarul "Tracia-Asesoft"". Romania Libera (in Romanian). 3 March 2016.
  13. ^ "Sebastian Ghiță: Verigă între SRI și ruși?". Revista 22. 5 April 2016.
  14. ^ Flutur, Firuța (September 27, 2016). "Sebastian Ghiță s-a autodenunțat la Parchet: "Am participat la măsluirea raportului de expertiză privind teza de doctorat a Codruței Kovesi"/ Iohannis: E ciudat/ Ponta: Dacă mă cheamă la Parchet, spun tot ce știu/ Reacţia lui Kovesi" (in Romanian). Mediafax. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  15. ^ Tudose, Mia (September 27, 2016). "Motivul pentru care Sebastian Ghiță a depus un denunț împotriva Laurei Codruța Kovesi". Cotidianul (in Romanian). Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  16. ^ "Știri de ultimă oră și ultimele știri online".
  17. ^ "Sebastian Ghiță, eliberat din închisoarea din Belgrad și plasat în arest la domiciliu pentru o cauțiune de 200.000 de euro". Știrilie Pro TV (in Romanian). May 26, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
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