Pitesti mayor heard as witness at the Anticorruption Department amid the soccer corruption scandal
The mayor of Pitesti, Tudor Pendiuc, was heard for two hours by the prosecutors of the local Anticorruption Department (DNA) as a witness today, amid the a full-blown corruption scandal also involving the chief of FC Arges football club Cornel Penescu and several referees.
The mayor said prosecutors did not mention if he is going to be called back.
Soccer referees Marcel Savaniu, Sorin Corpodean, Aurelian Bogaciu, the self-suspended vice president of Referees' Central Commission Marcel Lica and the former head of of soccer referees in Romania Gheorghe Constantin were arrested in April for taking bribery.
Penescu was arrested being accused of giving a bribery of 54,000 euros and 290,000 lei to Bogaciu, Savaniu and Lajos for the matches Gloria Bistrita-FC Arges (played on October 31 last year, score 2-0), FC Brasov-FC Arges (played on March 15, score 1-0) and FC Arges-Universitatea Craiova (played on October 3 last year, score 1-1) and for promoting a referee from the second football division into the first one.