Lia Savonea and the Key Stages of Establishing and Authorizing the Băneasa 23–25 Real Estate Project
The Băneasa 23–25 real estate project belonged to a company owned by her husband, Mihai Savonea. According to the allegations, Lia Savonea “unintentionally” concealed the company’s identity by referring to it incorrectly in her June 2024 asset declaration, allegedly to avoid raising suspicions about a project with a market value of approximately €9 million and to shield her husband’s business dealings involving a parcel of land that had been merged with another property and which, through intermediary companies, was allegedly directly connected to Dan Voiculescu.
Săptămâna Financiară calls upon the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the General Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the possible commission of the offenses of abuse of office, use of public office to favor certain persons, and complicity in money laundering.
Lia Savonea is now at the pinnacle of judicial power. Whether those who promoted her there were various “power groups” or Satan himself, they all knew what she was capable of and whom they were dealing with. She allegedly protected everyone, returned stolen money, and buried both the judicial system and the very idea of justice.
Our conclusions regarding the Romanian justice system under Lia Savonea’s leadership are that she has secured the support of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), including its Prosecutors’ Section. As a result, the appointments of chief prosecutors at the DNA and the General Prosecutor’s Office are effectively under her influence, granting her practical immunity.
She currently exercises absolute power over all courts in the country. Court presidents are appointed through her influence, judges are compliant and obedient, cases are allegedly directed in such a way that the desired outcomes are achieved.
There are allegedly no longer any truly independent judges because many have accepted minor benefits in exchange for loyalty: allowances, travel to seminars abroad, promotions, lighter caseloads, or even competent judicial assistants who prepare the reasoning of judgments on their behalf, allowing them to appear in court only on hearing days.
Court presidents exercise absolute authority and are exclusively individuals approved by Savonea.
The Judicial Inspection, through the allegedly obedient judge Roxana Ioana Petcu (Judicial Inspection, the instrument through which Savonea allegedly intimidates magistrates who become inconvenient, as reported in the Recorder documentary), is said to be completely subordinate to the orders of Lia Savonea at the High Court. It allegedly opens disciplinary investigations against troublesome magistrates, although few such individuals remain, and functions primarily as an instrument of intimidation.
For years, she has allegedly promoted only compliant executors to the High Court (Judges Simona Cârnaru and Oana Burnel are now reportedly approaching retirement).
The 14-month delay in the Voiculescu case allegedly provided a protective shield for her husband’s real estate business interests. This culminated on September 11, 2025, when, through Chamber Order No. 365, Lia Savonea admitted the complaints filed by Grivco and the other convicted defendants (Sorin Pantiș, Jean Cătălin Sandu, and Vlad Nicolae Săvulescu).
The judge partially annulled the prosecutor’s dismissal order and changed the legal basis for the dismissal concerning Judge Camelia Bogdan from “the act does not exist” (Article 16(1)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code) to “criminal liability has become time-barred” (Article 16(1)(f) of the Criminal Procedure Code).
Through this judicial maneuver, it is alleged that Lia Savonea acted ultra vires, exceeding the limits of authority granted to a preliminary chamber judge under Article 3(1) of the Romanian Criminal Procedure Code.
Without a complete criminal investigation and without Judge Camelia Bogdan even having the status of a suspect in the case, the judge allegedly concluded in the reasoning of the order that all elements of the offense of abuse of office committed with direct intent had been established, effectively determining criminal guilt that only a trial court could establish after a public trial.
This occurred because Judge Camelia Bogdan, together with Judge Mihai Mihalcea, had issued the confiscation order in the ICA case, including the property located at 25–27 București-Ploiești Road.
Legal References
Article 289
(1) A complaint is the notification made by a natural or legal person regarding harm caused by a criminal offense.
(5) A complaint submitted electronically meets the formal requirements only if certified by an electronic signature in accordance with the law.
Article 290
Reporting a Criminal Offense
(1) A criminal report is a notification made by a natural or legal person concerning the commission of a criminal offense.
(2) A criminal report may only be submitted personally, with the provisions of Article 289 paragraphs (2), (4)–(6), and (8)–(10) applying accordingly.
By the appellate decision of August 8, 2014, the judicial panel composed of Judges Camelia Bogdan and Alexandru Mihai Mihalcea ordered the special confiscation of the property located at 25–27 București-Ploiești Road.
In its decision of February 22, 2022, in the case of Voiculescu and Others v. Romania, the European Court of Human Rights declared the applicants’ complaints inadmissible, holding that the seizure and confiscation measures imposed on third parties, including the property at 25–27 București-Ploiești Road, did not constitute a disproportionate interference with property rights and had been implemented fairly.
The challenge to Dismissal Order No. 125/P of August 16, 2023, issued by the General Prosecutor’s Office following complaints filed by companies belonging to the Voiculescu group (Grivco SA and Applied Research and Investments Company SA), together with the procedural history, hearing dates, and Chamber Order No. 365 of September 11, 2025, issued by Judge Lia Savonea, resulted in the admission of the complaints filed by Grivco and the other convicted defendants (Sorin Pantiș, Jean Cătălin Sandu, and Vlad Nicolae Săvulescu), the partial annulment of the dismissal order, and the modification of the legal basis of dismissal concerning Judge Camelia Bogdan from “the act does not exist” to “criminal liability has become time-barred.”
For the sake of clarity, we present below the review case No. 446/3/2026 before the Bucharest Tribunal (including its procedural history, hearing dates, and judges involved), together with the true stakes behind the attempt to remove the confiscation order affecting the property.
Establishment of UNIX SKY SRL – May 9, 2024 – All Details of the Băneasa 23 Real Estate Project
An analysis of the procedural timeline concerning the complaint against the dismissal order—which ultimately resulted in its admission and in the modification of the prosecutor’s legal reasoning (“the act does not exist”)—reveals what is alleged to be a perfect temporal overlap between the successive postponements ordered by Lia Savonea and the key stages in the establishment and authorization of the Băneasa 23–25 real estate project.
The project allegedly belonged to a company owned by her husband, Mihai Savonea. It is further alleged that Lia Savonea intentionally misidentified the company in her June 2024 asset declaration in order to avoid drawing attention to the project and to conceal her husband’s business dealings involving land allegedly linked, through intermediary or controlled companies, to the Dan Voiculescu family.
Although Romanian criminal procedure requires a decision to be delivered within a maximum of 15 days, the judge allegedly prolonged the state of uncertainty through two major periods of postponement.
Estimated Duration of the Alleged Delay – Period of Postponement
March 4, 2024 – December 9, 2024
Delay: 9 months
- Establishment of UNIX SKY SRL (May 2024)
- Alleged concealment by Lia Savonea through the use of the incomplete company designation “SC US SRL” instead of “UNIX SKY SRL” in her June 2024 asset declaration, described as a supposedly innocent mistake rather than intentional conduct.
- Then:
- Financing of the real estate company by the lawyer Mihai Savonea through a loan exceeding RON 1 million.
- Estimated duration of the delay “through no fault of the judge”:
3 April 2025 – 11 September 2025 – more than five months. - Promotion of Lia Savonea to the presidency of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (23 June 2025), followed by the completion of the urban planning approvals, the finalization of the partnership with Pro Build Projects AG SRL, and the issuance by Sector 1 City Hall of the amended urban planning authorization (23 October 2025)—parallel administrative stages relating to Unix Sky SRL / the Băneasa 23 Project.
The complaints recently filed by Camelia Bogdan reveal what she describes as the mechanism through which Savonea shielded her family’s business interests by skillfully exploiting every loophole in the system, as well as the legal ignorance and lack of integrity of fellow judges, using the abilities of a white-collar operator and the expertise of a judge earning approximately €200,000 per year from the Romanian state while also allegedly succeeding in private business.
Camelia Bogdan
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026 – 4:59 PMTo:
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]I. Request to the Ministry of National Defence / Prime Minister of Romania / President of Romania (CSAT)
(Law No. 544/2001 on Access to Public Information)
Attention: Public Information and Public Relations Office
Subject: Request for public information regarding the contractual relations of the 71st “General Emanoil Ionescu” Air Base in Câmpia Turzii.
Should the requested information be classified, I request that the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) urgently declassify it, as information relating to criminal offenses may not lawfully be classified. I also reserve the right to inform Romania’s NATO and OECD partners regarding the Romanian state’s alleged tolerance of the dismantling of confiscation orders concerning proceeds of corruption that have been upheld by the European Court of Human Rights, together with the apparent diversion of profits to companies favored in NATO base modernization projects—circumstances that, according to this request, have not been investigated by the Romanian authorities.
Pursuant to Law No. 544/2001 on free access to public information, I respectfully request the following information:
- Whether, during the period 2014–2026, the 71st Air Base “General Emanoil Ionescu” entered into any public procurement contracts (works, services, or supplies) with Con Gaz Prest SRL.
If such contracts exist, please provide for each contract:
- the subject matter of the contract and its total value;
- the procurement procedure used (e.g., open tender, direct award);
- whether the company acted as the main contractor or subcontractor, together with all payments made;
- if Con Gaz Prest SRL acted as a subcontractor, the identity of the general contractor and the payments made under the subcontract.
I request this information in order to verify compliance with the principles of transparency and efficiency in the use of public funds allocated to defence infrastructure.
Please send the response electronically to the email address indicated above.
Given the importance of investigating the Romanian state’s alleged tolerance of the annulment of final confiscation orders for the purpose of remunerating senior public officials through NATO or other external funds, I request that this matter be handled urgently.
Date: 3 June 2026
II. Public Information Request to the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) / Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ)
Subject: Request for information concerning the reasons for the failure to investigate Unix Sky SRL / Mihai Savonea for alleged complicity in corruption, abuse of office, aiding an offender, and money laundering, as well as the failure to investigate Lia Savonea for alleged corruption, false declarations, official forgery, abuse of office, and complicity in money laundering.
I, Camelia Bogdan, hereby submit this criminal complaint requesting the following:
1. Statement of Facts and Criminal Context
This submission seeks clarification regarding the reasons for the failure to investigate what is alleged to be a mechanism of systemic corruption linking strategic public procurement contracts with unlawful private real estate investments.
The Câmpia Turzii Axis:
Con Gaz Prest SRL (controlled by the Covalschi family) was awarded infrastructure contracts at the 71st Air Base in Câmpia Turzii, which are alleged to have been awarded in breach of public procurement legislation in order to generate profits subsequently laundered through real estate investments.The Bucharest Axis (23–27 București-Ploiești Road):
Unix Sky SRL, controlled by Mihai Savonea, is developing the real estate project located at 23 București-Ploiești Road.The Alleged Corruption Mechanism:
It is alleged that the annulment of the confiscation order affecting the property at 25–27 București-Ploiești Road, by means of the decision of 11 September 2025, constituted abuse of office and aiding offenders through the influence of Judge Lia Savonea in order to protect her family’s private investment.2. Requested Investigative Measures
I request that the prosecuting authorities:
- examine the legality of the 11 September 2025 decision delivered by the President of the High Court, Lia Savonea, in Case No. 2655/1/2023, including identifying all public officials involved;
- conduct a financial forensic examination tracing money flows between contracts awarded at the 71st Air Base (Con Gaz Prest SRL) and the financing of the Unix Sky SRL project;
- interview Lia Savonea, Mihai Savonea, and representatives of Con Gaz Prest SRL regarding the commercial relationships between these entities.
I also request that all procedural documents be served both at my elected address for service and at my email address.
Date: 3 June 2026
Our approach is based on the observation that analyses of power structures within Romania’s administrative and judicial systems often reveal a close correlation between holding senior judicial office and the rapid growth of real estate businesses controlled by relatives or close associates of those officials.
The case of Unix Sky SRL, managed by family associates of the President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, Lia Savonea, and wholly owned by her husband, attorney Mihai Savonea, is presented as a case study for understanding alleged financial opacity and potential conflicts of interest.
This analysis examines alleged documentary irregularities surrounding the authorization of a ten-storey building in the Băneasa area, allegations concerning the project’s sources of financing, the Savonea family’s transactional history, and procedural connections said to indicate a systematic attempt to overturn final confiscation orders issued in major corruption cases.
Financial Mapping and Documentary Irregularities of UNIX SKY SRL
Unix Sky SRL was incorporated on 9 May 2024, under registration number J2024009263406 (EUID: ROONRC.J2024009263406) and Unique Registration Code (CUI) 50047310. The company has its registered office in Bucharest, Sector 2, 63 Grigore Ionescu Street, Block T73, Staircase 2, 4th Floor, Apartment 1, and its principal business activity is “Construction of residential and non-residential buildings” (CAEN Code 4100).
An analysis of the financial statements filed for its first year of operation allegedly reveals a significant discrepancy between the company’s own financial resources and the scale of the real estate projects in which it became involved.
Financial Indicator (FY 2024) Value (RON) Analytical Context Turnover 0.00 No operating revenue reported during the first year of activity. Net Profit 0.00 No profitability, allegedly indicating a company used solely for asset transactions. Total Liabilities 1,008,638.00 Financing exclusively through loans provided by the sole shareholder, Mihai Savonea. Fixed Assets 1,005,070.00 Value of the real estate asset recorded in the company’s balance sheet upon incorporation. Current Assets 2,668.00 Extremely limited cash balances. Share Capital 200.00 Divided into twenty shares with a nominal value of RON 10 each. The alleged documentary irregularities also extend to Judge Lia Savonea’s asset declarations. In the declaration submitted in June 2024, Unix Sky SRL is allegedly not identified under its official corporate name but instead appears under the abbreviated designation “SC US SRL.”
According to the allegations, although this technically complies with the requirement to declare the number of shares held, it makes it considerably more difficult for the public to identify the relationship between the President of Romania’s High Court and an active real estate development company.
Furthermore, the company is administered by Viorica Tuhuț, a close relative of Lia Savonea, who reportedly shared with her the inheritance of a 10,600-square-metre forest property in the town of Abrud, Alba County. According to the analysis, this corporate structure demonstrates a strictly family-controlled organization intended to ensure complete control over the assets while minimizing direct public exposure.
Technical and Urban Planning Analysis of the Real Estate Project at 23 București-Ploiești Road
According to publicly available sources, only a few months after Lia Savonea assumed the presidency of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, Sector 1 City Hall approved, on 23 October 2025, an amendment to the building permit (“modification of the urban planning concept”) for a mixed-use development (offices, commercial premises, and residential units) located at 23 București-Ploiești Road.
The project is being developed through a partnership between Pro Build Projects AG SRL, controlled by real estate developer Andrei-Alexandru Covalschi, and Unix Sky SRL, represented by Mihai Savonea.
The amended authorization transforms a previously approved project into a ten-storey building with the technical height regime 3S+P+8E+E9R+E10R, meaning:
- three underground parking levels;
- ground floor;
- eight standard floors;
- two recessed upper floors.
The completed building is expected to reach approximately 40 metres in height, with a total gross floor area of nearly 6,200 square metres.
A calculation of the minimum construction costs for a development of this complexity—particularly one involving three underground levels in an area with a high groundwater table adjacent to Lake Băneasa—suggests an exceptionally substantial financial commitment.
Estimated Construction Cost
6,200 m² × €1,500 per m² ≈ €9.3 million
According to the allegations, the actual source of the more than €9 million required to finance the project remains entirely opaque, given that Unix Sky SRL reported no operating income while disclosing only a shareholder loan of RON 1,008,638 provided by Mihai Savonea.
The analysis argues that this financial structure resembles one allegedly used by Mihai Savonea in an earlier residential development in Chiajna, where it is claimed that approximately €1 million in liquid funds originated from the son of a magistrate previously convicted of corruption. The Chiajna transactions allegedly also involved relatives of the town’s mayor, who was reportedly the godfather of an organized crime figure connected to parallel real estate developments.
According to the allegations, the Savonea family’s current business partner, Andrei-Alexandru Covalschi, together with his parents, controls Con Gaz Prest SRL, a company specializing in installation works.
The company is described as a regular beneficiary of public contracts awarded by Sector 3 City Hall and as having participated directly in the modernization of the 71st Air Base in Câmpia Turzii, a public investment reportedly exceeding RON 1 billion.
The partnership between a company with substantial public procurement activity (Pro Build Projects AG SRL) and the company owned by the husband of the President of the High Court (Unix Sky SRL) is presented as giving rise to allegations of influence peddling and money laundering, with the suggestion that the Savonea family contributes judicial influence while its business partners provide the actual financing.
Judicial Conflict of Interest: Systematic Delays in Case No. 2655/1/2023
According to the analysis, the significance of these administrative and financial connections is directly reflected in the manner in which Judge Lia Savonea handled Criminal Case No. 2655/1/2023 before the High Court.
In that case, companies belonging to the Voiculescu Group—Grivco SA and Applied Research and Investments Company SA—challenged Dismissal Order No. 125/P of 16 August 2023, issued by the General Prosecutor’s Office concerning the author.
The procedural chronology is said to demonstrate an exact temporal overlap between the successive postponements ordered by Lia Savonea and the principal stages in the establishment and authorization of the Băneasa 23 real estate project.
Although the Romanian Criminal Procedure Code requires a judgment to be delivered within a maximum of 15 days, it is alleged that the proceedings were deliberately prolonged through two significant periods of postponement.
Period of Postponement Estimated Duration Parallel Administrative Developments 14 March 2024 – 19 December 2024 More than 9 months Incorporation of UNIX SKY SRL; appearance as “SC US SRL” in the June 2024 asset declaration; shareholder financing exceeding RON 1 million. 3 April 2025 – 11 September 2025 More than 5 months Lia Savonea’s appointment as President of the High Court (23 June 2025); completion of urban planning procedures; completion of the partnership with Pro Build Projects AG SRL; amendment of the building authorization by Sector 1 City Hall. According to the allegations, the fourteen-month delay effectively provided a protective shield for her husband’s real estate interests.
This culminated on 11 September 2025, when, by Chamber Order No. 365, Lia Savonea admitted the complaints lodged by Grivco and the other convicted defendants—Sorin Pantiș, Jean Cătălin Sandu, and Vlad Nicolae Săvulescu.
The judge partially annulled the prosecutor’s dismissal order and changed the legal basis for dismissing the allegations concerning Judge Camelia Bogdan from “the act does not exist” (Article 16(1)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code) to “criminal liability has become time-barred” (Article 16(1)(f)).
The analysis alleges that, by doing so, Lia Savonea acted ultra vires, exceeding the jurisdiction of a preliminary chamber judge under Article 3(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
It further alleges that, despite the absence of a completed criminal investigation and despite Camelia Bogdan never having acquired the procedural status of a suspect, the ruling effectively concluded that all constituent elements of abuse of office committed with direct intent had been established—amounting, according to the analysis, to a determination of criminal liability that only a trial court could lawfully reach following a public criminal trial.
Spatial Network of Interests and Circumvention of the ECtHR Standards Governing Third-Party Confiscation
According to the analysis, the concealed objective of this judicial operation was to provide those convicted in the ICA case with an unlawful judicial finding of criminal wrongdoing that could later serve as grounds for reopening the final confiscation judgments pursuant to Article 453(1)(d) of the Romanian Criminal Procedure Code, which permits revision where a member of the judicial panel is subsequently found to have committed a criminal offense.
Address (București-Ploiești Road) Entity / Property Description Legal Status Nos. 15–17 Grivco SA Headquarters / Savoria Factory Operational headquarters of the Voiculescu Group Located in close proximity to the Savonea family development. No. 23 UNIX SKY SRL Development Approximately 6,200 m² mixed-use building Private project valued at approximately €9 million. Nos. 25–27 Former Antena 1 / Antena 3 Headquarters Land area of 4,184.41 m² and administrative building of 3,140 m² Finally confiscated by Criminal Decision No. 888/A of 8 August 2014. According to the analysis, the alleged mechanism for circumventing the law is apparent.
By its appellate judgment of 8 August 2014, the Court ordered the confiscation of the property at 25–27 București-Ploiești Road, applying European standards developed in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, including Silickienė v. Lithuania and Bongiorno v. Italy.
The property had allegedly been transferred to Grivco SA and subsequently made available to Antena 1 and Antena 3 in order to conceal the illicit origin of funds connected with the ICA case.
This confiscation measure subsequently received international validation when, in its judgment of 22 February 2022 in Voiculescu and Others v. Romania, the European Court of Human Rights declared the applicants’ complaints inadmissible, holding that both the seizure and confiscation measures imposed upon third parties—including the property at 25–27 București-Ploiești Road—did not constitute a disproportionate interference with property rights and had been carried out fairly.
According to the analysis, notwithstanding that judgment and the relevant constitutional jurisprudence, Lia Savonea effectively undermined the finality of the 2014 confiscation order, thereby allowing the reopening proceedings in Review Case No. 446/3/2026 before the Bucharest Tribunal.