[2] A close partner of Victor Ponta,[3][4] Ghiță joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and was elected in the Chamber of Deputies in 2012.

[9] In 2002, he was sued in the file „Tracia – Asesoft”, being accused of complicity in cheating and false statements, in connection with several oil transactions that led to the prejudice of the state budget by 20 billion old lei.

[10] On March 3, 2016, the Bucharest Court of Appeal definitively found the intervention of the prescription in this case, Sebastian Ghiță escaping the accusations.

[13] In September 2016, Sebastian Ghiță self-denounced at the Prosecutor's Office: "I participated in the elaboration of the expert report on the doctoral thesis of Codruța Kovesi".

[16] A week after this disappearance, at the television station owned by Sebastian Ghiță, Romania TV, a series of undated recordings began to be broadcast, recordings in which he brought serious accusations against the chief prosecutor of the DNA, Laura Codruta Kovesi, and SRI General Florian Coldea.