Prahova Court ordered, Tuesday, for the Petrotel Lukoil dossier to be restituted to the Prosecutor of Ploiești Appeal Court, after last month found irregularities in the indictment sent to court.

The court stated that some acts were doubled or tripled, and that prosecutors have not indicated the specific criminal activity. The file contains allegations of money laundering and decapitalization of Petrotel Lukoil, with damages initially estimated at 1.2 billion euros.

Prosecutors say that the pricing policy practiced in the purchase of raw materials and in selling the resulted products, Petrotel Lukoil would have transferred the profits to other Lukoil companies and to offshore subsidiaries with the purpose of not reporting a profit in Romania and to avoid income tax payments to the state budget.

Last month, the court found irregularities in the indictment file sent to court, magistrates pointing out that some material acts were doubled or tripled, and that prosecutors have not indicated the specific criminal activity.

However, the County Court upheld in part the requests and pleas raised by the defendants in the case and found material and territorial jurisdiction of the court, the legality of managing evidences and conducting the criminal prosecution. Prosecutors had five days to correct the deficiencies in the file; otherwise they would be receiving the file back.