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| MEDIA HEADLINES 14/04/2009 |
| (2009-04-14) |
| Last updated: 2009-04-15 14:00 EET |
Spectacular mostly outside the pitch, modest in terms of results, with inadequate infrastructure, and with fans’ interest free falling, the Romanian football is again faced with scandals. On Monday, businessman Cornel Penescu, owner of the FC Arges Pitesti club, which currently ranks 10th in the top division, was arrested by the prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate- DNA; they accuse him of having bribed the referees of the matches played by his team and of having ‘promoted’ his own people to the rank of referee, also by means of bribe.
Gheorghe Constantin, the president of the Central Committee of Football Referees in Romania, is also involved in this case. This scandal is making headlines in many central newspapers. “The DNA team is putting on a football show!” writes the daily GANDUL, “this time around staged by the so-called big cats of Romanian football, club owners and leaders of the federation”. The same newspaper writes that the investigation in this case was started in 2008 and the main evidence in Penescu’s file consists of phone taps.
According to the daily JURNALUL NATIONAL, “prosecutors are keeping their eyes on three matches from the current football season.” Faced with an awkward situation, the president of the Romanian Football Federation, Mircea Sandu, made a public statement and said, according to the daily JURNALUL NATIONAL, that “he had anticipated such situations in which clubs tried to obtain undeserved results by unfair methods”. He pointed out that he made available to prosecutors hundreds of pages of arbitration reports. The daily ZIUA writes that the “National Anti-Corruption Directorate prosecutors accuse Penescu of having given almost 125 thousand euros worth of bribe to referees”.
The daily ROMANIA LIBERA writes that the investigation also targets the way in which certain characters in the football community are making money at the betting house by rigging certain matches. The co-operative, as the match rigging system in the top division was called, is backed by another method: that of appointing biased and corrupt referees for certain matches. The daily also adds that “there is no drawing of lots for selecting the referees; there is a panel of eight people who designate the referee and make last minute changes.”
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