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| MEDIA HEADLINES 27/03/2009 |
| (2009-03-27) |
| Last updated: 2009-03-28 20:11 EET |
According to the press, this scandal seems to branch out into the world of politics. The prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate have started an investigation meant to determine the circumstances in which the magnate Puiu Popoviciu purchased a plot of land in Bucharest's most exclusive residential area for close to nothing.
Adevarul also writes that this investigation has created a lot of anxiety among other big names which everybody knows, but whose link with the domestic intelligence service no one can prove. The daily paper Evenimentul Zilei even carries a shocking statement intercepted during legal wiretapping: QUOTE “President Basescu and ex-Prime Minister Tariceanu used to wait in line to see Puiu Popoviciu” UNQUOTE.
This statement was made by Cornel Serban, who just recently resigned from his position as chief of the General Intelligence and Internal Protection Directorate. Serban was accused of having tried to cover up Popoviciu's dubious deal, and of aiding his influence in branching out into the highest political circles.
Newspaper Cotidianul headlines “11 high-ranking politicians sit in Popoviciu's insectary”, and writes of other heavyweights who have, in one way or another, allegedly contributed to the building of Popoviciu's economic empire. The newspaper sheds light on the working mechanism of the so-called “privatisation of information”. According to Cotidianul, Serban's climb to the top of the secret service hierarchy was achieved in exchange for personal services which he offered to Popoviciu and to the diplomat Tiberiu Dinu, the Romanian consul in Milan.
The publication Romania Libera shows that this scandal stretches into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well. It is claimed that Cornel Serban provided the consul Dinu with classified information which he needed to sack one of the consulate's members. Tiberiu Dinu might also have required information about the person who sent threat letters to his brother in law, the current Social-Democratic Minister of Health Ion Bazac.
The editor of the daily Gandul noticed how, compared to the olden days when the Securitate, the national secret service of Socialist Romania, wiretapped every citizen, nowadays their modern counterparts are more elitist, and only listen on conversations made by politicians or VIPs. Gandul also notes that QUOTE “citizens see policemen, prosecutors, judges and secret services as tools used by big shots in their struggle for political and economic power.” END OF QUOTE
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