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The Head of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), Raed Arafat, has the status of a defendant in the SMURD helicopter acquisition case, after new hearings at the Military Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bucharest Military Tribunal.

The manager of Romanian Pic, Gheorghita Pieca, is charged with having removed from the cashier some 500,000 lei (EUR1= RON4.1762) which he allegedly gave to football club officials Cornel Penescu and Liviu Facaleata who, in turn, paid football officials to favor their club, FC Arges.