General Gheorghiță Vlad, criminally prosecuted / The accusations of the prosecutors

General Gheorghiță Vlad, head of the Romanian Army General Staff, has been charged by the military section of the DNA and made a suspect for "aiding and abetting the usurpation of function, if the public official obtained for himself or for another an undue benefit," according to a DNA statement.

According to DNA, General Vlad Gheorghiță, head of the Defense General Staff within the Ministry of National Defense, is accused that in July 2025, through his acts of complicity, he facilitated the issuance and signing by Lieutenant General Berdilă Iulian, deputy for operations and training of the Chief of the Defense General Staff, of a request addressed to the Ministry of Education and Research, regarding the increase of budget places for the National University of Physical Education and Sport Bucharest - Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, exceeding the limits of the powers conferred by legislation, under conditions in which the request in question was the exclusive attribute of the General Directorate of Human Resources Management, a central structure within the Ministry of National Defense.

The official document issued would have determined the decision to increase the number of budget places by 20, by promoting candidates initially admitted to the fee-paying places, to the supplemented budget places.

In this way, the legitimate interests of the Ministry of National Defense would have been harmed, by affecting institutional relationships, and, correlatively, an undue benefit would have been created in favor of the 20 candidates, by promoting them from fee-paying places to the supplemented budget places, with the expectation that at the end of their university studies, a number of 3 candidates would be employed in officer positions at the Ministry of National Defense.

The DNA announcement was made after General Gheorghiță Vlad was heard at the military section.