The case will be tried at the Bucharest Court.
The National Investment Fund (FNI), Banca Agricola, Banca de Investitii si Dezvoltare (BID) and Banca Romana de Scont, which went bankrupt in the 1990s and defrauded hundreds of thousands of people, were all directly or indirectly controlled by Vintu.
Last year, prosecutors announced that Romania’s General Prosecutors’ Office canceled decisions not to start criminal investigations against Vintu and would reopen old fraud cases on the FNI collapse.
Mid-June this year, the Bucharest Court of Appeals sentenced Vintu to one year in prison for blackmailing former Realitatea Media manager Sebastian Ghita. In February 2012, a Bucharest court decided Vintu would serve six months in prison for blackmailing Ghita.