General Gheorghi\u021b\u0103 Vlad, Chief of the General Staff of the Romanian Army, was charged by the military section of the National Anticorruption Directorate, or DNA, on Tuesday, June 2, for complicity in abuse of office.<\/p>\n
DNA military prosecutors claimed that, in July 2025, the Chief of the Defence Staff, \u201cthrough acts of complicity,\u201d \u201cfacilitated the issuance and signing,\u201d by Lieutenant General Iulian Berdil\u0103, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff for Operations and Training, of a request to the Ministry of Education.\u00a0This request, according to DNA, concerned \u201cthe increase of budget-funded places for the National University of Physical Education and Sport,\u201d according to the official press release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The request exceeded the legal bounds, as it was the exclusive responsibility of the General Directorate for Human Resources Management, a central structure within the Ministry of National Defence (MApN).<\/p>\n \u201cThe official document […] would have led to the decision to increase by 20 the number of budget-funded places, by promoting candidates initially admitted to tuition-paying places to the newly created budget-funded places,\u201d according to DNA.<\/p>\n Prosecutors stated that, in this way, \u201can undue benefit was created for the 20 candidates, promoting them from tuition-paying places to the newly created budget-funded places. Upon completion of university studies, three candidates would be employed in officer positions within the Ministry of National Defence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Among the candidates who benefited from this were also the daughter of a colleague of General Vlad Gheorghi\u021b\u0103.<\/p>\n Gheorghi\u021b\u0103 Vlad was sworn in as Chief of the Defence Staff on November 30, 2023.<\/p>\n