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| Media Headlines 26/05/2011 |
| (2011-05-26) |
| Last updated: 2011-05-27 12:17 EET |
Thursday’s Romanian newspapers continue to look into mafia-style ties between border police officers, customs officers, politicians and business people in Constanta, the largest Romanian seaport.
About 30 people were arrested there after prosecutors dismantled a network that trafficked Asian goods. High-ranking persons include Liberal Democratic Party Senator Mircea Banias and Interior Ministry Secretary General Laurentiu Mironescu, a former member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Both are accused of providing political protection to traffickers.
The daily Evenimentul Zilei writes that ‘’according to a simple calculation, average tax evasion in the port of Constanta rose at 2 billion euros, in 2010. Other 500 million euros represent the bribe shared by uniformed traffickers.‘’
Customs illegalities, the same newspaper adds, ‘’have caused losses worth 50 billion euros, over the last 20 years. This money would have been more than enough to fund thousands of km of highways and roads, schools, hospitals, stadiums, hundreds of thousands of housing or free medicines.’’
Evenimentul writes that ‘’the persons accused of trafficking in Constanta play the victim, providing ridiculous explanations of their involvement in the greatest corruption scandal after 1989.’’
Daily Jurnalul National mentions that the wife of secretary general Laurentiu Mironescu ‘’accuses prosecutors of arresting him with no evidence’’. She denies any ties between him and senator Banias, given that, despite a common birthplace and party membership, ‘’they have not been on speaking terms since 2009.’’ Mironescu has, in the meantime, been sacked, by order of Prime Minister Emil Boc.
Jurnalul National speculates that ‘’the customs officers file does not reveal that the Night of the Long Knives has begun in the Liberal Democratic Party’’ and that port arrests just settle grudges between the factions of the main ruling party. Daily Adevarul backs the hypothesis that ‘’via Libyan national Said Baaklini, the Constanta network, has ties to the Arab world involved in money laundering. Millions of euros have traveled through transactions with shell companies, registered in a warehouse on the Capital’s beltway.’’
The daily Romania Libera also writes that ‘’in the Mironescu scandal, the Secret Service of the Interior Ministry is accused of not signaling the former Secretary General’s legal problems’’ and "not having opposed his appointment’’. This is not the first time that this ‘’policing the police’’ fills with ridicule. As a result, the controls ordered by interior minister Traian Igas could lead to the dismantling of the service.
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