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| Media Headlines 01/04/2011 |
| (2011-04-01) |
| Last updated: 2011-04-04 15:47 EET |
A leading figure of the trade union movement in Romania, Marius Petcu will be spending 29 days in prison following a ruling by the Court of Cassation and Justice, writes the daily paper Romania Libera. On finding out about the Court’s ruling, Petcu, who is the leader of Fratia and Sanitas, two powerful trade union federations, told the media he was disappointed and wasn’t expecting for something like that to happen considering his activity in the last 20 years.
However, the evidence on which anticorruption prosecutors formulated their charge persuaded the court that he needed to be taken into temporary custody. According to the National Anticorruption Directorate, Petcu was caught in the act of receiving 40,000 euros in bribe money, which was but a portion of the sum requested by Petcu from a business man to allow the latter’s company to carry out works at a trade union centre.
The anticorruption prosecutors also requested Petcu’s arrest because he allegedly pocketed the contributions of trade union members, which would cause a major prejudice to the trade union movement, writes the daily paper Adevarul. The newspaper also notes that Petcu told the magistrates that the money received from the businessman is part of a loan that needed to be paid back.
Petcu also told Gandul that he can account for his assets and that the mansion suspected of being acquired by bribe taking is not in fact a mansion but a shack. The inspectors of the National Integrity Agency will have to establish if his assets are illegal. There’s no need, however, for complex evaluations to realise the impressive quantity of fixed and movable assets owned by Petcu, including land in Bucharest and other areas, a home in the capital city and a number of holiday houses, ten accounts and bank deposits.
Petcu receives payment for his trade union activity and his membership of numerous managing boards. As a result of Petcu’s problems with the law, the management of the Fratia federation has transferred leadership to his deputy, Liviu Luca, who is not a poor man, either. Adevarul writes that Luca is “controversial, influential and filthy rich.
A leader of the Petrom trade union, the number one company on the domestic oil distribution market, Liviu Luca has built a genuine empire out of his activity as defender of employee rights”.
Compared with Liviu Luca, Marius Petcu has a modest wealth, notes Adevarul. As soon as the bribe taking scandal involving Petcu broke out, the central figures of the trade union movement in Romania were quick to dissociate themselves from his alleged acts, for fear this may shatter the credibility of trade unions. On the other hand, all big trade union leaders have good incomes, sometimes very good incomes as in the case of the Fratia federation, and their wealth has kept growing while the trade union movement has grown weaker and basically incapable of posing any real threat to any government.
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