The grounds judges relied on to retain Sorin Ovidiu Vantu: Vantu started offering money to Popa at least two years before 2009, a whole strategy was instated to this end 

Bucharest Tribunal published the grounds judges relied on to retain media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu, Octavian Turcan and Alexandru Stoian for 29 days. See the most important reasons.

• Vantu, together with Turcan and Stoian even though had a restraining order from leaving the country implemented a complicated communications circuit with Nicolae Popa, sentenced to 15 years of prison and helped him hide 
• the FNI system was very complicated, created under the appearance of an open investment fund that generated a serious prejudice to the Romanian banking system and to a great number of people 
• thus the activities conducted by the thee impose a great danger upon the social environment and their freedom might be a concrete danger for public order 
• even though they were investigated for favoring Romanian Nicolae Popa since December 2009, they continued to support him through any means to escape the justice in Romania 
• they might encourage other people to commit fellonies as well
• the measure to deprive them of liberty is an extreme measure but the fellonies committed are just as extreme
• Sorin Ovidiu Vantu was the initiator of the whole operation