Andrei Muraru, the proposal for Romania’s ambassador to the US, was prosecuted

By Edwig Ban
Andrei Muraru, the one proposed for the position of ambassador in the US was in the past prosecuted for blackmail, writes evz.ro. He is currently a presidential advisor in the Department of Relations with Public Authorities and Civil Society.
The journalists from Curentul.info revealed since 2016 the fact that the District 5 Court ordered the criminal investigation on his behalf. Andrei Muraru was accused of blackmail with secret documents. He allegedly used documents stolen by his brother from the archives of a Romanian secret service.
Former judge Corneliu Turianu filed a criminal complaint against him for this. Muraru Dan-Andrei was accused on October 6, 2016, of obtaining undue benefits through blackmail. The blackmailer was Professor Corneliu Turianu.
The judges indicated two articles of the law.
Article 13 ind.1. – „In the case of the blackmail crime, provided by art. 207 of the Criminal Code, in which a person from those provided in art. 1, the special limits of the punishment are increased by one third ”.
Art. 12 – “The following acts are punished with imprisonment from 1 to 5 years, if they are committed in order to obtain for themselves or for another money, goods or other undue benefits”, shows Curentul.info, taken over by evz.ro.
Born in 1982, Muraru is a graduate of the Faculty of History (2005), a graduate of the master’s program “Romanians and Europe” (2007), a doctor of History (2011) of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi (source – presidency.ro ).
He has worked at the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) since its establishment (2006), occupying various positions, from expert-researcher to executive president (2012-2014). During 2006-2009, he was an adviser to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and an advisor to the director general of the National Archives of Romania. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Television Company (2014). Between July and December 2014, he was a personal adviser to the president of the National Liberal Party, Klaus Iohannis.