EXCLUSIVITY. Photo from the arrest of Prime Minister Florin Cîţu in the USA
AGERPRES refuses to publish information about the arrest of Florin and the Prime Minister of Romania, thus hiding national security information from the population
US authorities have made available to Aleph News and Mediafax the photo ("mug shot") from the moment of Florin Cîţu's arrest on US territory
The document in the criminal case shows that Florin Cîţu was assigned the number 23665 under arrest
Authorities say they held Florin Vasile Cîţu in the Story County Penitentiary after he was caught by police on Dec. 3, 2000, "driving under the influence," behind the wheel of a red Ford Probe and taken into custody. US custody
US authorities claim that Florin Cîţu's fingerprints in the file are not public information, but only the document that presents him arrested
In another response obtained by Aleph News and Mediafax Agency, other US authorities show that Florin Cîţu's second civil case, regarding the unpaid debt of over $ 6,698.73 on the credit card opened at Maryland National Bank , NA was rejected by the judge "after Mr. Cîţu could not be located to receive notification of the trial"
Also on American territory, the current Prime Minister of Romania, Florin Citu, cheated a bank in order to obtain loans.
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Aleph News and Mediafax Agency obtained exclusively the photo from the criminal file of Prime Minister Florin Vasile Cîţu, as it was made available by the American authorities, and present to the public this portrait, as found in the documents in the file and was transmitted by the authorities.
The American authorities made available to Aleph News and Mediafax the photo from the moment of arrest (taking into custody) of Florin Cîţu on the USA territory.
The American government official shows in response that Florin Cîţu's fingerprints in the file are not public information, so he provided only the image from the moment of Prime Minister Cîţu's arrest on US territory.
The so-called "mug shot" is a photographic portrait of a person, from the shoulders up, made by US judicial structures, usually after a person is arrested and taken into custody.
These photographs / images are public federal government documents based on the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and the public presentation of portraits of detainees cannot be construed as a violation of a person's privacy or the confidentiality of a case, given legal public access to government information, warning the public about the perpetrators of crimes and carrying out the act of justice, transparently, in the public service.
The document made available by Aleph News and Mediafax depicts Florin Cîţu (28 years old, at that time), wearing glasses and dressed in a white T-shirt, with his back to the wall, with case number: 23665. Name: Florin Vasile Cîţu . Gender: Male. Race: White. Height: 1.73 m. Weight: 70.3 kg.
The US official claims in response that Florin Vasile Cîţu was detained in the Story County Penitentiary, according to the databases of the American authorities and from the documents provided by the American judicial authorities and already published by Aleph News and Mediafax.
A person who is taken into US custody means that he or she is arrested and held in prison until that person can be tried in a court of law.
Florin Cîţu was arrested (taken into custody) by the American authorities on December 3, 2000, after at 2.08 at night, he was caught on Lincoln Way on Squaw Creek Bridge, Ames Town, in Story County, driving a red Ford Probe , with a Blood Alcohol Content of 0.161, the legal limit being 0.08.
"As Probe drove east, he was visibly moving from side to side on the road. The Probe car did not maintain a constant speed (it fluctuated between 32 and 56 km / h). The defendant smelled of alcohol and admitted to drinking. The defendant had his eyes watered and wet. The defendant could not take the sobriety test ", it is shown in the documents made available to Aleph News and Mediafax by the American judicial authorities.
On that evening of December 3, 2000, Florin Vasile Cîţu was officially charged with the offense of "driving under the influence" (OWI) 1st (Serious Misdemeanor) / Serious Crime, in violation of Section 312J.2 letters 1a and 1b of the Iowa Criminal Code of 1999, he is taken for 2 days in US custody, a bail of 1950 dollars is established, and later the Story County prosecutor officially formulates the accusations, officially accusing Flori Cîţu.
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The documents show that between December 27-28, 2000, after he was sent to court, Florin Cîţu no longer appeared before the judge because he had left for Romania for the Christmas holidays and the following year, between January 6-8, 2001, he returned In the USA, Cîţu pleads not guilty, quarrels with the American authorities, making extensive requests, and Judge Thomas R. Hronek warns him that if he does not appear at the pretrail, he will issue an arrest warrant in his name.
Subsequently, the Community Center in Des Moines / Iowa confirms that Florin Cîţu followed the Drinking Drivers program, against alcohol while driving, and 3 days before his conviction, Florin Cîţu changes his strategy in the process.
On February 23, 2001, Florin Cîţu changed his mind and informed the court that he was making a plea agreement. Cîţu also agrees with the installation in the car of an anti-alcohol device, with unpaid work for the benefit of the community, with its sending to a community correction center, with courses against alcohol at the wheel, with evaluation at its own expense and its introduction in a program for "substance abuse" for education. In addition, Cîţu accepts the fine, accepts 48 hours of imprisonment, a fee for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and an evaluation program against substance abuse. The abuse assessment is sent to the US court in a "confidential" envelope.
On February 26, 2001, Judge Thomas R. Hronek sentenced Florin Cîţu to 2 days in prison in Story County Penitentiary, reduced his initial two-day arrest sentence, fined him more than $ 1,300, and asked him to contact US authorities. until April 4, 2001 for the execution of the sentence and also asks him to pay the meal and the room in the penitentiary if necessary. The documents provided by the American judicial authorities do not show that Florin Cîţu appealed the received sentence.
In another answer obtained by Aleph News and Mediafax Agency, other American authorities who searched for Florin Cîţu in the databases show the following:
The first offense (ST vs. Florin Citu) involved a charge of "operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI)," the first offense occurring in Story County on December 3, 2000. The other case, also from Story County, was initiated on August 19th 2008, but was rejected on February 24, 2009, apparently after Mr. Cîţu could not be located to receive notification of the trial ".
Documents from the US court, published by Aleph News and Mediafax Agency, revealed that on July 21, 2008, 6 years after leaving the USA, Florin Cîţu was sued by the debt collection company, Clarke Jordan Financial LC, for an unpaid debt from a $ 6,698.73 credit card from Maryland National Bank, NA.
The debt collection company asked Florin Cîţu, in the civil lawsuit filed, for over 9755.27 dollars, he tried for 7 months to locate Cîţu, he even hired an investigator to locate him, and the court from Story County tried to find Florin Cîţu, even granted the second extension of 3 months in order to notify Florin Cîţu about the trial, and on February 24, 2009, Judge Steven Van Marel temporarily rejected the case because he could not be found and notified the defendant Florin Cîţu about the civil process. During those events in the American court, Florin Vasile Cîţu, the current prime minister of Romania, was the director of Financial Markets at ING Bank Romania.
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